Generation Amazing football coaches pose for a group picture.
Doha: Football coaches trained by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy’s (SC) Generation Amazing programme were given the opportunity to boost their skills during a six-day course at Aspire run in collaboration with the English Football Association.
Fifteen Generation Amazing coaches attended the International Level One course, which helps participants better understand the importance of planning, preparing and delivering effective football coaching sessions.
The collaboration comes after the English Football Association signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the SC and Qatar Football Association earlier this year to promote and improve football, share resources and expertise, develop knowledge, understanding and expansion of grassroots initiatives across the world, and provide life skills to young and vulnerable people through combined corporate social responsibility sporting programmes.
Generation Amazing has positively benefitted more than a quarter of a million people across the world since being launched during Qatar’s bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It harnesses the power of football to positively impact the lives of participants.
Generation Amazing coach Jafla Mohammed Al Hajri, from Qatar, said the course helped everyone learn new skills.
“Taking part in this course has been very beneficial – every day we learned a new principle about Generation Amazing and coaching,” said Al Hajri.
“I love the fact that I can work with a lot of young people of different ages. Generation Amazing’s inclusive model helps me to learn how to be a good coach, while promoting the programme’s core principles.”
Another participant, Haitham Al Balushi, from Al Habsi Academy in Oman, said: “I was delighted to take part in this course, and would like to thank the organisers for inviting me.
“We were able to take a lot of useful learnings and experiences from the English coaches and other participants. I have learned new principles of play and training methodologies which I can apply back home in Oman.”
Nathan Ellis, a Coach Educator from the English Football Association, said the participants were eager to learn new skills.
“Everyone has been very engaged and open to new ideas, and I was able to introduce the coaching philosophy and methodology we use in England,” said Ellis.
