FIBA Africa conduct second edition of Coach instructor course

 

ABIDJAN (Cote d'Ivoire) - FIBA Africa has this week organised a three-day FIBA Coach Instructors Level 1 course as part of the World Association of Basketball Coaches (WABC) project.

The event run from July 19-21 in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, and counted with 17 candidates representing 15 countries.

Supervised by FIBA Coaching instructors Cheikh Sarr (Senegal) and Nour Amri (Morocco), the second edition of the course aimed at equipping National Federations with local instructors.

"FIBA is looking to develop many instructors on the continent but also around the world," noted Amri.

Among the aspiring FIBA instructors three were female coaches from three countries. Those coaches are Adoro Everlyne Kedogo (Kenya), Yosser Hedia (Tunisia) and Helina Randrianjatovo (Madagascar).

This year's FIBA Coach Instructors course counted with the participation of some household names on the continent, including Aladji Dicko, who led Mali to two straight FIBA U18 African Championships titles (2018 and 2020) and helped his country to reach the 2019 FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup Final.

 
Former Cote d'Ivoire international player who turned coach Blaise Amalabian was also part of the course, which also counted with the presence of former Rwanda head coach Moise Mutokambali.

Talking to FIBA.basketball, Mutokambali, who currently serves as  National Technical Director of Rwanda Basketball Federation (FERWABA), explained that his interest in the course focus on helping coaches to develop their skills in the game. 

"I really like development of the game, development of the players, but to have good players you have to have good coaches. And to have good coaches it's necessary to have good instructors. I am here for training on how to train coaches, and how to help the coach to develop their players."

At the end of the FIBA Coach Instructors course, successful candidates are issued with a Level 1 instructors certificate.

 
FIBA WABC Instructor  Amri observed that those who "pass will be not only coaches in their countries, but FIBA will also nominate them to run courses all over the world. That's why we need to be sure that these people will be at the standards of WABC before we certify them."

Amri noted that "so far we have 9 FIBA instructors in Africa FIBA WABC level 1 and we have two instructors of instructors: Coach Cheick and myself."

Full list of participants:

Aladji Dicko (Mali)
Adoro Everlyne Kedogo (Kenya)
Blaise Amalabian (Cote d’Ivoire)
Craig Hendry (South Africa)
Amadou Karimou (Nigeria)
Ledea Geoffroy Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso)
Mohamed Lo (Mauritania)
Moise Mutokambali (Rwanda)
Nicholas Nathureza (Uganda)
Olivier Ndayirague (Burundi)
Parfait Adjivon (Senegal)
Raoul Toupane (Senegal)
Safa Kamalian (Iran)
Walid Zrida (Tunisia)
Yosser Hedia (Tunisia)
Nilton Mahheira (Mozambique)
Helina Randrianjatovo (Madagascar)

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