Tue, 30 Nov, -0001
Kuala Lumpur: Twenty young referees including two women began their quest Thursday to have the opportunity to become future FIFA and AFC Elite Referees to take the Asian game higher on the world stage.
They will undergo an eight-day selection course to make sure they have what it takes to join Batch 2011, the latest batch of AFC Project Future (PF) Referees which is an elite programme where budding or new referees from the MAs are groomed for two years to fast track their refereeing careers.
AFC Deputy General Secretary Hasan Al Sabah officially opened the course which is instructed by FIFA and AFC Elite Refereeing Instructors Noboru Ishiyama (JPN) and Shamsul Maidin (SIN) and managed by AFC Project Future Referees Manager George Cumming (SCO).
The course programme consists of modules on the aims of the PF course, the roles of referees, fitness test preparation, qualities of a top referee, match control, match preparation, post-match analysis, pre-match preparation as well as practical training and will conclude with an evaluation of the candidates on November 8.
The Batch 2011 Selection Course participants are Zhang Cheng (CHN), Rahul Eric Dsa (IND), Danial Moradi (IRN), Zaid Thamer Mohammed Mohammed (IRQ), Qais Mohammad Ali Ghawanmeh (JOR), Takuma Matsuda, Genki Tawara, Miura Namika (JPN), Oh Hyeon-jeong, Kim Woo-sung (KOR), Khalid Saleh H Al Turais (KSA), Muhammad Firdaus Ibrahim, Mohamad Azril Mohd Sabri (MAS), Kabin Byanjankar (NEP), Nathan Chan Rong De (SIN), Sanje Chathuranga Jayarathne Karandana Lekamlage (SRI), Hanna Hattab (SYR), Chen Hsin-chuan (TPE), Nayim Qosimov and Abdurahmanov Ziyodullo UZB).