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PANJIM: Forca Goa Foundation organised a three-day team building workshop for all its grassroots coaches in South Goa recently.
The workshop was organised for the coaches to review the season gone by and to prepare themselves for the new season ahead by sharing their experiences and knowledge gained through the year.
The three-day program had activities on team building, workshops on coach education and sessions on self-introspection and meditation.
MD Forca Goa Foundation Jill Ferguson said, “The purpose behind the coach’s workshop was to help empower the coaches and build capacity from within. By developing the coaches, the Foundation can directly impact thousands of kids from the community.”
“The things I learned at the workshop will help me bring a change in myself and others especially the young children I coach. Introspection and evaluation is a necessity to improve and learn,” said coach Forca Goa Foundation Allain D’Costa.
Fr Milchester from the St Francis Friary, Canacona held talks on being good representatives to young children and how to use football as a means to teach children values so that they develop into socially responsible adults. Some of the coaches who had an opportunity to be a part of the Premier Skills Coaching program and the scouting training, used the opportunity to share what they had learnt with the entire group so all the coaches could benefit.
Another highlight of the workshop was on training special needs children. After launching its #FootballForAll campaign last year in a bid to make the sport all inclusive, the foundation introduced girls to their programmes.
