PROMISING Namibian coach Dino Ballotti is in Germany for the annual German Football Federation Coaching Course in Hennef.
The intensive course, which started yesterday and runs until April 2, brings together about 30 licensed football coaches from 25 countries with the aim of obtaining the international DFB Coaching Certificate, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. Ballotti is a former Ramblers Football Academy coach and recently had a short stint as an assistant at Sport Klub Windhoek (SKW). According to Klaus Staerk, the Namibia Football Association (NFA) Technical Director, he was selected along with national women soccer team Coach Jacqueline Shipanga.’They had to go together but due to Shipanga’s involvement with the national team which played in Nigeria this weekend it was only possible for Dino to go alone and for her to go next year’, said Starke.He added that Ballotti was selected based on his performance in the CAF C-Licence course last year and his passion for coaching.’He is very young and so involved with coaching and for me he is the future of coaching in this country. So it was necessary for us to send him further so that he can learn more and improve as well’.Ballotti on his part said that he was grateful for the opportunity. Requirements for participation in the course are not only physical fitness and a very good command of the English language, but also adequate experience in adult and junior soccer training. ‘It will be great for me to learn more and that influence will just make me a better coach and surely I have to thank the NFA for this chance and promise not to disappoint,’ Ballotii is quoted as saying on the nfa.org.na website before he left for the course. He added that he intends, upon his return, to get involved with the MTC Premiership once again.’I was born to coach and for me the sky is the limit and it is every coach’s dream to coach a national team and for me the Brave Warriors will be ideal one day’ said Ballotti, who has been busy with the Invisible FC under-17 team in the Khomas Youth League.
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