FRIP Level 1 workshop hosted in Dubai for West Asia and Gulf regions

BEIRUT (Lebanon) - The FIBA Regional Office Asia organized a FIBA referee Instructor Programme (FRIP) Level 1 workshop last week for the West Asia and Gulf regions last week in Dubai, UAE.

The four day workshop that took place from 12-15 May, was attended by 12 participants and provided the participants with the most up-to-date teaching and learning techniques, as well as wider basketball and refereeing knowledge. The event also included a range of theoretical and practical officiating sessions, which provided a wide variety of learning opportunities for those present and 

FRIP is one of the pillars of FIBA Global Refereeing Structure, a strategy approved by the FIBA Technical Commission for 2014-24. The target of the strategy is to simply improve quality and quantity of referees to better serve basketball all over the world, while FRIP is a qualification programme to ensure standard quality and trained skills among those who are actually working with the referees.

FRIP has been planned to meet the needs on all levels, starting with referee development at the National Federation level, progressing to face the Regional (continent) challenges and ending with the Global concept.

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