Compliance issue forces WeLFA to postpone coaching course
Local football association postpones Safa coaching course in the last minutes after 30 participants failed to produce medical certificates of fitness.
The West-end Local Football Association (WeLFA) has postponed the South Africa Football Association (Safa) D-Licence Coaching course to Saturday this week amid the failure of 30 participants to produce medical fitness certificates.
The training was supposed to begin on May 7 and end on May 29 at the University of Pretoria’s Groenkloof Campus.
“Non-compliance led to the postponement of the event which is the best possible solution,” WeLFA deputy chairperson, Mummy Mathe.
Mathe said since the participants were not at fault, a solution was needed to be afforded a fair opportunity to participate.
She said Safa had to take appropriate actions on the issue of the medical certificates as it was an important matter since the training included both theoretical and practical activities where participants would be required to perform physical exercises.
Mathe said as a result of the changes, the training will now end on June 4 at the same venue and not on May 29 as previously announced.
She said the training was available at a reasonable price to unskilled coaches. Money generated from it would be used to develop football in the community.
“WeLFA is a non-profit organisation that depends on sponsors, affiliates and fundraising events to help in developing football in South African communities.”
She said the money raised from the training would be used in developing football in Pretoria.
According to Mathe, the course was also not only about raising the money but preparing unqualified coaches to be able to coach their teams when the time to do away with unqualified coaches in Tshwane comes into effect.
“We understand that unqualified coaches love football and want it to develop. For this reason, we want to help them be qualified coaches to play a meaningful role in the development of football in our communities.”
Mathe said the training was evidence that Safa Tshwane, their LFA and others were serious about the development of football.
She explained that the development of football meant a lot for the country.
“It means WeLFA will produce quality players for higher divisions as well as the country’s national soccer team, Bafana Bafana.”
She said the country needed Bafana to win international competitions to put South Africa on the map.
Mathe thanked the University of Pretoria for providing the venue for free and Safa Tshwane for supporting them.
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