Officials from Qatar Football Association (QFA), Chelsea Foundation and Yokohama Tyres pose for a photograph with participants of the coaching clinic conducted by the QFA Football Development Department and Chelsea Foundation.
Doha: The Qatar Football Association’s (QFA) Football Development Department and Chelsea Foundation with the able backing of Yokohoma Tyres, the principal club partner, launched the a coaching clinic in Doha.
The QFA-Chelsea Foundation coaching clinic commenced on Saturday at several venues in Doha and will conclude tomorrow.
The details regarding the coaching clinic were disclosed during a press conference which was attended by Fahad Thani Al Zarraa, Director of Football Development Department at QFA, Zak Wooster, head coach at
Chelsea Foundation, Takeshi Harada, General Manager at Yokohama Tyres Middle East, and Karunakar Menon, Divisional Manager at Ali bin Khalifa Al Hitmi & Co., distributors of Yokohama Tyres.
During the five-day clinic, Chelsea Foundation coaches will conduct coaching sessions for expatriate children from schools, intensive clinics to promising young players representing Clubs under QFA and workshops to expat coaches who are sports teachers from various schools around Qatar. Coaching workshops to coaches from Qatari clubs will also take place.
While the coaching workshops for expatriate coaches were held on the opening day at the Messaimeer Sports Club, coaching workshops for the QFA’ s Professional Coaches are being held at Duhail Sports Club and Mesaimeer Sports Club.
The clubs’ sessions for the players take place at Aspire’s pitches 3 and 4.
More than 120 players between the ages of 10 and 14 will train under Zac Wooster, head coach and four coaches at Chelsea Foundation, and over 74 coaches from Qatar.
The coaches from Qatar who are taking part in the workshop include Pro licensed coaches, D Licensed coaches, and D license candidate coaches.
The coaches participating in the coaching clinic from Qatar include QNB Stars League champions Al Duhail’s Djamel Belmadi, Sami Trabelsi, Philippe Burle, Amine Frikha, Aberrazak Hedider, Dragam Tadic, Silvio Diliberto and Ouajdi Boussarsar.
There are also be coaches assisting Chelsea Foundation’s coaches in delivering the sessions to the young players.
The visiting coaches will be Wissam Rizk, Wael Gomaa, Mohamed Aboutrika, Said Al Basheer, Ali Al Ahraq, Younes Ali, Ezzat Gadoo, and Abdullah Koni.
Several D Licensed and Pro Licensed coaches including Jawad Ahannach, Ahmed Muhegri, Abdullah Maarafi, and Saleh Al Deery are also taking part in theoretical sessions delivered by Chelsea Foundation’s Zak Wooster.
The QFA-Chelsea Foundation Coaching Clinic is an example of the fruitful technical partnerships that QFA signs with various football associations, academies, and clubs around the world and highlights the QFA’s Football Development Department’s ongoing objectives in constantly developing football in Qatar.
Taking place in Qatar for the second consecutive year, the coaching clinic aims to benefit local coaches by giving them the opportunity to learn specific skills and techniques that will benefit them in the future and also provides a real opportunity to update the Qatari football system, in particular the local coaches in Qatar, of the modern coaching methods and philosophies used in Chelsea Foundation’s development philosophies.
Commenting on the clinic, Al Zarraa said: “The coaching clinic is a great learning experience for the coaches and players and being held in Doha for the second consecutive year reflects the great confidence that Chelsea Foundation has in the Qatari football system. Partnering with advanced football academies that have a unique coaching methodologies such as Chelsea Foundation gives the opportunity for many of our players to diversify their football knowledge and technical abilities and helps to develop it in an ideal manner to help them in the future.”
Zak Wooster, International Football Development Officer at Chelsea Foundation said: “The Academy’s presence in Doha for the second consecutive time in a row is aimed at launching a unique training program to delivers the club’s philosophy to a wide variety of players and coaches in Qatar, by allowing players and coaches to spend the most enjoyable times and learn the latest training methods of the foundation.”
