Development

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Dec 4, 2022

This morning the BFA through the department of Women football held a Grassroots Festival in Shakawe under the Nhabe Region.

In attendance was the BFA President Mr Maclean Letshwiti, Women Rep in the National Executive Committee Ms Lobito Ncube, the BFA CEO Mr Mfolo Mfolo, the Chairperson of the National Women Football committee Ms Keeng Mosinyi, the BFA Head of women football Ms Tsholofelo Sethoko, the Chairperson of the Nhabe Regional Football Association Mr Sebele and the brand ambassador of Grassroots programmes who is also the Vice Captain of the Women Senior National team The Mares Ms Nondi Mahlasela amongst others.

Grassroots and player development is a pillar under the strategies that the Women football department came up with that are also in line with the FIFA women’s development programme. It focuses in depth on participation and teaching basic techniques to the girl child to promote the women’s game, giving the girls an opportunity to play, have fun and learn life skills through football at a young age. This pillar also helps in improving results in National under 17 and 20 teams as the children grow up with the correct skills.

The BFA President gave a few words as to encourage the children, he told them that they are the future and they should know that football is for all.

When addressing the media, the Head of women Football Ms Sethoko brought to light that they do not intend on doing this festivals then neglect the centres

“the whole of the past week we had our instructors in Shakawe training the coaches so that they teach the children correct skills even in our absence”, she explained.

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Development

BFA LAUNCHES FIFA TALENT DEVELOPMENT SCHEME PROJECT

𝗚𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗘: Botswana Football Association today the 21st April 2023, launched an innovative FIFA Talent Development Scheme (TDS), to help raise the standards of junior national football teams for both men and women, driven by FIFA’s desire for a long-term dedication to global talent development.

The programme is also aimed to help the association achieve its full potential and continuing the measures taken to reduce the disparity in the level of football between different countries.

The project objectives are to create a platform for emerging talent that will expose them quality coaching and competitive environment, to create a pool of players to be selected for junior national team (U15, U17 and U20) and to build a strong base for competitive junior national teams and sustain their success at all levels.

The identified players will be channeled to Radisele and Mogoditshane Centres of Sports Excellence with the possibility of expanding to other areas. The teams will be training on a daily basis with qualified coaches and playing games every week. U15 national team shall be fixtured in Tswapong Region U17 youth league while U17 team shall be fixtured in Tswapong Region Division 1. U19 team will have game time by locking horns with the first division league teams where it will be fixtured.

Giving his welcome remarks BFA vice president 1 also the acting president, Mr. Masego Nchingane made it known the purpose of today is to launch two (2) talent Development Centres namely Mogoditshane Senior Secondary School and Radisele Junior Secondary school Centres of Sports Excellence however in the next few years will have talent identification centres across the country in order to give every kid an opportunity to fulfill their potentials.

Speaking during the launch the BFA general Secretary Mr Mfolo E.Mfolo proclaimed that the standards of school of excellence determines the output, and the output will give us the results that we want in 10 years from now.

“FIFA realized that the top countries in the world continue to make the gap big with other countries that’s when FIFA decided to embark on a talent development scheme to find out how other countries can play catch-up where FIFA Masters Alumni can fast track the development of players so that the junior national teams even small countries can make an impact in football”, said FIFA Consultant Mr. Serame Letswaka

Sharing the project landscape BFA Technical Director, Mr. Tshepo Mphukuthi emphasized that the project is not the same from country to country but is tailor-made to a country based on their country’s challenges and needs.

Closing the program proceedings, Hon. Tumisang Healy, a member of parliament for Gaborone Central, made it public that this program is dynamic and he believes it will change the football landscape of Botswana. He further added that if purposely do development, there will be outcomes out of it.