OFC head of coach education Didier Chambaron says supporting the development of Oceania players and coaches it is necessary to understand the current situation and challenges that face football in the region.
“The OFC Technical Department want to establish a coach education programme that will train and educate the required number of instructors for the development of football,” Chambaron says.
“We need to raise the quality of more coaches to reach the standards of the best in the game. This can never be a short-term plan so OFC is working within a ten-year timeframe. Better qualified and more specialised coaching will produce better players.
“The aim of this three-day workshop was to provide modern coaching methodologies, organisation, structure and educational models based on the new OFC approach.”
Through group work and practical sessions on the pitch the participants, who came from Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand, discussed the necessary tools, information and practical situations which will enable them to become OFC C Licence instructors.
“The OFC C Licence aims to provide coaches with the knowledge and understanding of the technical and tactical demands at senior level, which is national leagues and youth national teams. As future instructors they are supposed to become role models for all prospective coaches and players and serve as a reference point for information on all aspects of the game,” Chambaron says.
“For this reason we focused on understanding the game during these three days.”
He says the course was successful in terms of building the foundations of understanding the game
and delivery methodologies.
“As the process of learning and evolving should never stop, we will follow the progress of each of the participants. This is just the starting point.”

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