Eguavoen, Portuguese tactician Conde take charge of NNL pre season coaches seminar

 By Nosa igunma 

Technical director of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Austin Eguavoen and Portuguese tactician Thiago Conde will lead the resource persons billed to drill coaches of Nigeria National League (NNL) clubs in a three-day pre season seminar billed for next month.

The Coaches training  designed to upgrade all 40 coaches in the Nigerian  National  League (NNL) will take place at the Remo Stars  Football  Club Stadium  at Ikenne, Ogun State from October 15th- 18th 2023.

According  to the  Chairman  of the Nigerian  National  League  Board Mr George Aluo the training  will upskill  the  coaches technique  and knowledge  about Football  in order to improve the standard of the league. 

“When our coaches are properly trained the standard will improve and  compete with  any other league in the world .We want a better league , but you can't  achieve  that without  first training  the coaches".

He further  said the event which will take place at the Remo Stars Stadium is a collaboration  between  the NNL and the National Institute for Sports. This collaboration  is in line with the mandate  of the NIS to train coaches. At the end of the training  the coaches will be better  equipped  to take on the responsibility of  making the  the league  more competitive, transparent and standardized

 All participants  will be issued certificates  by the National Institute for sports.  The Director-General  Professor Olawale Moronkola has  assured  of the Institute  support by  providing some of the resource persons.

The coaches are expected  to arrive on 15th October 2023, while the event holds from 16th- 18th. 

Resource  persons  from the  National Institute for sports will also avail the coaches the opportunity  to learn the latest trends in coaching  technology.