The Tribune

THE Bahamas Football Association kicked off the new school year by once again hosting the professional development day for the primary schools.

The event got started with the BFA presenting to the teachers the format of the upcoming tournament and taking them through the subtle changes to take place.

After the presentation, the floor was turned over to the local facilitators of the Concacaf initiative, Generation Amazing.

The project was a collaboration between Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation which was formalised in 2017 and paved the way for a strategic partnership between Concacaf and the Qatar Football Association.

The programme is a blended approach of online and in-person learning.

Generation Amazing will contribute to workshops to produce coach education training for all coaches.

There are four pillars making up the education component:

• Concacaf understanding sport for development

• Concacaf Safeguarding and child protection

• The role of the coach and facilitating F4 D sessions

• GA Developing practical football session booklet

Schools involved: 24

Kids involved: 25

per programme

Age targeted :

Grassroots (under 12)

Local facilitators are Kermit Romer, Krystal Evans and Codisha Brown.

Equipment presented to participants, including president of the NPPPSSA Latoya Sturrup and MOE assistant director Dwayne Higgins.

Bruce Swan, Technical Director