Five Indians added to pro coaches pool

January 01, 2015 05:38 pm | Updated 05:38 pm IST - MUMBAI:

Dutch international Wim Kovermans, a renowned UEFA Pro Licence Instructor and ex-India coach, cleared five Indians at the professional coaches pool of the Asian Football Confederation Pro Diploma coaching course.

Former internationals Santosh Kashyap, Khalid Jamil and Churchill Brothers head coach Mariano Dias are the three new faces in the list of Professional Coaching Diploma holders, along with Hilal Parray and Thangboi Singto.

Stanley Rozario got a Pro-Pass (he has to appear for one more practical exam). The course was conducted for the first time ever from July 2013-November 2014 by Kovermans (member of Netherlands 1988 Euro champion team) for 12 participants.

Foreigners Scott O’Donnell, Karim Bencherifa and Arthur Papas also passed. Earlier, Derrick Pereira, Savio Medeira, V. Soundarajan and Hering Shangpliang were the first four Indians to acquire AFC pro coaching diploma, involving practical training in Germany.

India now has a trained coaches pool of nine to choose, most of them associated with different teams at the ongoing Federation Cup. Kashyap is Royal Wahingdoh FC head coach at the inter-club competition in progress at Goa, Jamil is chief coach at Mumbai FC, Bencherifa and Papas officiate as chief coaches at Pune FC and Dempo SC respectively.

Scott is AIFF Academies Director and recommended to take over as AIFF Technical Director. The All India Football Federation also conducted two AFC goalkeeping courses last November, involving 18 for the Level 1 GK course, 14 were successful including one pro-pass. AFC Instructor Yong Wai Hwong (Malaysia) conducted the AFC GK course.

The federation has also made it mandatory from January 1, 2015 for all coaches to clear the ‘D’ level certificate to become eligible for AFC courses starting with AFC ‘C’ level.

Pro-Licence coaches list: Santosh Kashyap, Khalid Jamil, Mariano Dias, Hilal Parray, Thangboi Singto, Karim Bencherifa, Scott O’Donell and Arthur Papas. Pro-Pass: Stanley Rozario.

Goalkeeping Level II passed coaches : Tanumoy Basu; Sandeep Singh; Virender Singh and Hameed KK. Pro-Pass: Fysal K.B. and Tapan Chakraborty.

GK Level I: Nongthonbam Puthiba Metei; Thatheus Khyriem; Siddique Abdul Azim; Shaikh Mohammed Qadeer; Parshuram Salwadi; Shafi Kalavath Ali; Gavin Elias Araujo; A. Cleofas; Bobby L. Nongbet; Subrata Das Gupta; Gumpe Rime; M. Zakeer Hussain; Kishore Chavan Shivaji Rao and Kaushik Paul. Pro-Pass: Ronibala Chanu. — Special Correspondent

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