52 football coaches join CFA workshop in Danao

FIFTY-TWO COACHES from Danao and Carmen showed up for the first Kasibulan Football Grassroots Development Program of the Cebu Football Association (CFA) yesterday in Danao City, northern Cebu.

Raffy Musni, the chairman of the grassroots committee of the CFA, said the aim for now is to give the coaches good training.

Musni, who attended the opening ceremonies of the three-day event, said the CFA will fully support the program’s beneficiaries by providing the equipment and the referees.

Grassroots development officer Eleazar Toledo said the participants were very active and showed keen interest on the program.

“We had a lively interaction during the workshop and they eagerly came up with their own presentation during the practical sessions,” Toledo said.

Raymond Meca, who heads the Danao Football Club, which is helping with the event, said that they are very thankful that Danao was chosen to be one of the beneficiaries of the Kasibulan program.

“We have been playing football for a long time and still we learned something new,” Meca said.

Yesterday, Toledo shared the grassroots development philosophy of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the philosophy based on the Philippines setting that the GDOs came up with during their instructor’s course held in San Carlos City before the summer.

Today, Toledo will instruct coaches how to run the Grassroots Course Festival (GCF) as one of the goals of the Kasibulan program is for these coaches to handle their own GCF. /CORRESPONDENT MARS G. ALISON