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McIntosh: Let's capitalise on Beijing success
Garfield Myers
Saturday, September 20, 2008
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Arguing that football has real potential as a contributor to the Jamaican economy, head of the Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF) Technical Committee, Howard McIntosh has urged the football fraternity to draw from the example set by track and field as it moves towards the development of a technical development plan.
Speaking at the Manchester Football Association's Presentation Awards ceremony at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville recently, McIntosh said Jamaican football should be spurred by the events at The Beijing Olympics last month. Jamaican athletes - led by three gold medals from Usain Bolt (100m, 200m and 4X100m relay) in world record time - dominated the track to win an un- precedented six gold medals in Beijing.
"What happened recently in the Olympics is a solid base on which we can build. If we allow what happened at the Olympics to go by and we don't build on it - not only for track and field but also for football and sports in general - then we have really missed a tremendous opportunity," McIntosh said.
An essential part of the development plan, said McIntosh, would be a radical improvement in football coaching in Jamaica, taking it to a level similar to the high standard which he suggested now existed in track and field. The long talked-about coaching school would be part of this process, he said.
"We have to revolutionise our coaching development and our coaching structures. We are going to put in place a system that is very similar to track and field. In track and field, the coaches are able to do a level of identification, a level of preparation that football coaches have not yet developed.
"Part of that will mean that we have to set up a coaching school. The JFF is in the process of doing that now. To try and have a coaching school at GC Foster (College of Sports and Physical Education) so that we can start to train our coaches in the same way that track and field coaches have been developed ." he said.
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Garfield Myers
Saturday, September 20, 2008
MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Arguing that football has real potential as a contributor to the Jamaican economy, head of the Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF) Technical Committee, Howard McIntosh has urged the football fraternity to draw from the example set by track and field as it moves towards the development of a technical development plan.
Speaking at the Manchester Football Association's Presentation Awards ceremony at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville recently, McIntosh said Jamaican football should be spurred by the events at The Beijing Olympics last month. Jamaican athletes - led by three gold medals from Usain Bolt (100m, 200m and 4X100m relay) in world record time - dominated the track to win an un- precedented six gold medals in Beijing.
"What happened recently in the Olympics is a solid base on which we can build. If we allow what happened at the Olympics to go by and we don't build on it - not only for track and field but also for football and sports in general - then we have really missed a tremendous opportunity," McIntosh said.
An essential part of the development plan, said McIntosh, would be a radical improvement in football coaching in Jamaica, taking it to a level similar to the high standard which he suggested now existed in track and field. The long talked-about coaching school would be part of this process, he said.
"We have to revolutionise our coaching development and our coaching structures. We are going to put in place a system that is very similar to track and field. In track and field, the coaches are able to do a level of identification, a level of preparation that football coaches have not yet developed.
"Part of that will mean that we have to set up a coaching school. The JFF is in the process of doing that now. To try and have a coaching school at GC Foster (College of Sports and Physical Education) so that we can start to train our coaches in the same way that track and field coaches have been developed ." he said.
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He is speaking about working with a college (The GC Foster of Physical Education adn sports - forgive him for leaving out the other teachers colleges!) as a 'technical trainign center' for those who would teach our youngsters football!
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