In line with its renewed drive to ensure the coaches upgraded their knowledge in modern football tactics, the National Institute for Sports (NIS) is collaborating with Platinum Football Coaches to organise a two-day coaching clinic.
The training, according to the coordinator of Platinum Football coaches, Nurudeen Aweroro is scheduled to take place from July 3 to 4, 2024 at the National Institute for Sports, Lagos.
He disclosed that the objectives of the clinic include upgrading coaches in modern football technology and to instil in them new philosophy.
“We are collaborating with the NIS in order to improve on what we did in previous editions. Our goal is to provide quality training which the NIS represents. I’m happy that we have the support of the Director-General Professor Olawale Moronkola and his team. “This will bring more prestige and credibility to the training. The responses we are getting shows that this could be one of the best training in recent time .We also have the support of some organizations to make the event a success,” Aweroro said.
About 250 coaches are expected to take part, an improvement on the last edition where about 150 coaches participated.
NIS director-general Professor Moronkola will declare the training open.
Some top rated coaches like newly crowned Nigerian League Champions gaffer, Fidelis Ilechukwu, Daniel Ogunmodede, Coach of Remo Stars and Coaches Adesina James and Jeremiah Kuhwa among others are the resource persons for the training which will be both theoretical and practical.