AFC Fitness Coaching Instructor Level 2 Course starts

Copenhagen University’s Professor of Human Physiology and Exercise Physiology Jens Bangsbo and Universities of the Faroe Islands and Gothenburg's Associate Professor Magni Mohr are the instructors for the five-day course which covers theoretical sessions such as exercise physiology – temperature regulation, muscle and neural system, heat stress and performance, rehabilitation and more.

Practical lessons on game and player analyses, power training in football, injury prevention, different types of injuries, as well as team tactics and demands also form part of the training programme.

“I’d like to welcome the participants to the course,” said Mohamed Basir of the AFC Technical Division during the course opening ceremony.

“We are now continuing our long journey in developing top-class fitness coaching instructors. We have come a long way and taken ten years to be where we are now in this area of coaching. As you know, this course is unique because we are the only confederation to be doing this kind of training.

“As you know, the AFC Asian Cup Australia 2015 concluded recently and I can’t stress enough the importance of fitness as demonstrated by the tournament’s finalists Korea Republic and Australia.

“I hope the participants will give their full attention and cooperate with each other during the course.”

Prof. Bangsbo remarked: “We are very pleased that we have been on this long journey with the competent instructors from Asia. Now the AFC has a unique and complete programme within the fitness area both for coaches and fitness coaches allowing a systematic development of the players from youth to professional.”

Dr. Mohr added: “A decade ago the AFC initiated a strategy to improve the level of Asian coaches and fitness coaches, and after hard work the first step of this process is complete.

“However, the programme has to be utilised and implemented in coach education all over Asia.”