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The FKF president is keen to have coaches working in Kenya have the highest qualification as one way of lifting the game locally
Coaches will be required to have a minimum of a CAF A License to be able to handle a Kenyan Premier League team in the near future.
Football Kenya Federation president Nick Mwendwa believes this is the only way to lift the standards of the game locally which will in turn have a positive impact on national team Harambee Stars.
CAF A License represents the second highest coaching qualification awarded in the continent and requires 240 hours in class only after participants practice coaching for two seasons.
“We have the top coaches in the country here today. These are the guys who have done everything. These are the guys we need to make our players great. We need them all, 25 of them, they are having their CAF A refresher license,” said Mwendwa when he officially launched a CAF A refresher course for 25 top Kenyan coaches on Monday.
“As we go forward, we will require every club to have a CAF A License for their head coach. We are training them now, we will have another class in October so we will have 50 coaches who have a CAF A License and every club that recruits locally, will be required to hire a coach with a CAF A License.”
“This is so important because these are the types of coaches who determine our philosophy, how we play, the technical abilities of our professional players who play for the national team.
“I cannot emphasise how important this is. We will have a session with them every time the league closes so they can contribute to the game because football is about players and the people who make players are the teachers and the teachers are these coaches.”
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Holders of the CAF A License can handle proceedings in CAF competitions; the CAF Confederation Cup and CAF Champions League but the highest coaching qualification on the continent remains the CAF PRO License.
“We have trained 6,000 coaches in Kenya from CAF D, C, B, and now A. We want to make sure we have 10,000 coaches in the country and want to make sure we have at least 200 coaches at the highest level so that a club can choose from this pool and we have the best of the best coaching the best clubs in the country,” added Mwendwa.
Tusker FC’s Robert Matano, Zedekiah ‘Zico’ Otieno, who left KCB at the end of last season, Bandari’s Twahir Muhiddin, former Harambee Stars coach Jacob ‘Ghost’ Mulee, David Ouma of Sofapaka are among the coaches attending the refresher course.
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