Iyambo, Sibanda to add value to women’s football
Despite financial woes in local football, Namibian women’s football administrators and coaches are hoping to improve the game in their area.
This, after Salome Iyambo recently attended a CAF Women Instructors’ Course in Cameroon.
Another administrator, Thuba Sibanda, is to visit Europe for a FIFA Master Programme in the next few days.
Iyambo, nominated by the Namibia Football Association (NFA), recently attended a CAF Women Instructors’ Couse held in Cameroon.
The course was conducted by Egypt’s Mohamed Abdul-Meneim, also known as ‘Shatta’, Dominique Niyonzima from Burundi and South Africa’s Fran Hilton-Smith.
Iyambo expressed her appreciation after being afforded the chance to attend the course.
“In February this year I was appointed Galz and Goals instructor and have already facilitated courses in the Khomas Region and I coordinate the programme in the Otjozondjupa Region,” Iyambo said.
“Football remains the biggest and greatest game sport in the world with many opportunities locally and internationally. Passion and patience are key to keeping you in the game of football,” she added.
There were 24 participants from English-speaking African countries as well as the coaches of the eight teams that have qualified for the upcoming CAF African Women’s Championships in Cameroon.
Sibanda is to attend the FIFA International Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport, a course organised by the International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES) in partnership with three universities, De Montfort University in Leicester (England), SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan (Italy) and the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).
The programme was created to promote management education within the sports world. It has developed to become a top graduate programme developing all-round managers who can cope with the increasingly complex world of sport.
“I’m really excited about this course and looking forward to learning more and coming back to help to propel local women and football in general to greater heights.
“It will be an intense course and I’m looking forward to it. Thank you NFA for the trust as well as FIFA for this chance,” Sibanda said.
Sibanda will leave for Leicester on 9 September and will return home in August next year.
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