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Karl
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 Posted - Nov 22 2001 : 6:57:56 PM
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René Hüssy, the 72-year-old former Swiss national coach, long-time FIFA instructor and now technical advisor to the world governing body, talks about FIFA's development work.
René Hüssy, João Havelange and Joseph S. Blatter (from left to right). Photo: Kurt Schorrer
FIFA Magazine: When did you get involved in FIFA's development work as an instructor?René Hüssy: FIFA's development work started in 1976 under the stewardship of Joseph S. Blatter, who was director of the department at the time. I got involved a year later and ran my first course in Cameroon in 1977. After that I worked in a number of countries, including Guinea, Haiti and Canada. René Hüssy
Date of birth: 19 October 1928Playing career: defender for the Swiss clubs Blue Stars, FC Zurich, Grasshoppers and Lausanne Sports. 3 Swiss Championship wins, 3 Swiss Cup winsCareer as coach or official: FC Winterthur, Grasshoppers, Swiss national team (1973 - 1976). 1 Swiss Championship win FIFA instructor since 1976, now technical advisor to FIFA.
What is your assessment of the development work?It is one of the greatest things FIFA has ever created, possibly even the most important thing of all. The development work the world governing body does is excellent, it is sophisticated, professional and extremely significant. And the progress that has been made on a broad level is very impressive. I'll give you an example: when I was running the course I mentioned in Cameroon 24 years ago, I saw right away that they had lots of talented players, but no organisation, no administration and no tactical discipline. Years later Cameroon qualified for the finals of the FIFA World Cup™ on several occasions, and have played an excellent role. Successes such as these would not have been possible without FIFA's development work, although Cameroon is just one of several such examples. So what is the most important aspect of FIFA's development work?Flexibility. In Cameroon and Haiti, for example, there are lots of great footballers, but their organisation and administration is not so good. On the other hand the Canadians are extremely well organised, but the players there not as good in terms of technique and tactics. Europeans have different strengths and weaknesses to Africans, Africans to Asians, Asians to Central or South Americans, which is why FIFA has to take into account the special needs and requirements of the individual national associations in its training programmes. What part of the development work do you find particularly impressive?All the development work is great, so many countries have already benefited from it. What particularly impresses me is the thirst for knowledge, the ability to learn and the gratitude displayed by the course participants, irrespective of whether they are coaches, referees, officials or doctors.
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Karl
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Posted - Nov 22 2001 : 6:59:33 PM
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How many of these courses - (TDs/coaches, referees etc.) - has the JFF organised? If done...Where? ...and for whom?
Does the JFF see the connnections? -
Quote from FIFA -
"FIFA is committed by its Statutes not only to the positive promotion of football through development programmes, but also to supervising international competitions and to safeguarding the sport and its good image against abuse of its rules and regulations. And FIFA sees to it that the game is played to one unified set of rules, the Laws of the Game, all over the world.
Football's ever growing popularity, its enormous appeal especially to young people, its expanding economic, social and even political significance and, not least, its importance for the media have all combined to make the sport a vital common denominator for varied interest groups".
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Edited by - Karl on Nov 25 2001 10:32:32 |
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