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General Secretary
of the Grenada Football Association (GFA), Victor Daniel and
second Vice-President, Ken Martin-Whiteman are representing the
association at a football workshop in Trinidad.
They are among 36
senior football administrators from 17 CONCACAF countries, have
registered for the FA/CONCACAF Workshop from Tuesday to June 13,
entitled “Contracts, Transfers and Structures”.
The workshop will
be conducted by three top administrators from the English FA,
Graham Noakes, Director of Football Administration, Mark Ives,
Head of Business Development and Maurice Watkins, a director of
Manchester United.
Watkins is
regarded as a leading expert on the legal aspects of modern
football.
The trio will be
accompanied by Kim Fisher of the FA’s International Relations
Department.
Representatives
will be drawn from Mexico, Aruba, Barbados, Bahamas, Bermuda,
Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Montserrat,
Suriname, Belize, St Luica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, St
Kitts/Nevis, US Virgin Islands and Trinidad and Tobago.
The venue for the
workshop is Dr Joao Havenlange Centre of Excellence, a major hub
for training and development in the region.
The Administration Workshop will focus on a
number of important issues confronting regional football
administrators. These include improving relationships with key
stakeholders, effective management structures, regulations of the
transfer of players, contract negotiations and measuring success.
The format will be highly interactive and
participants will be required to design their own plans and
present them at the end of the workshop.
Two key programmes have already been held
at the Centre of Excellence this year, the prestigious FA
International Coaching Licence Course and the CONCACAF Seminar on
“Tactics and Systems of Play”.
Meantime,
Technical Administrator Lester Smith is in Honduras attending a
one-week Olympic Solidarity Workshop.
The programme is
being co-ordinated by the Grenada Olympic Association through the
International Olympic Committee’s Solidarity Programme.
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