Coaches urged strive for excellence

FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF boss Austin Jack Warner urged a group of 35 coaches to “strive to be better and better with every year.”

The football administrator was speaking at Friday’s closing ceremony of the FA International Coaching License Course, a nine-day programme held at the Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, Macoya, Tunapuna. The course was the brainchild of former national senior team manager Richard Braithwaite, currently the CONCACAF Director of Development. Warner heaped praises on the English FA, in particular the lecturers Mike Hennigan and Steve Rutter, “for the support that they have been giving to CONCACAF over the years.”

The participants included Felis Geerman, Rudolfo Dirksz (Aruba); Micah Samuel, Rolston Williams (Antigua); Rene Montero (Belize); Maxford Pipe, Lenroy Henry (British Virgin Islands); Clifford Celaire (Dominica); Michael Felix, Patrick Francis, Brian Blackman (Grenada); Albert Richard, Andy Gerard (Guadeloupe); Andrew Grogan, Collie Hercules (Guyana); Cecil Lake, Ottley La Borde (Montserrat); Dariel Collazo (Puerto Rico); Garth De Shong, Randy Patrick (St Vincent); Collister Fahie, Carlton Freeman (US Virgin Islands); Donald Chin Loy, Scott Haywood, Leonard Taylor, Basil Benjamin (USA); Francisco Ramirez Gomez (Mexico); Marlon Charles, Anderson Veronique, Ferdinand Bibby, Wendell Berkley, Hilton Bailey, Kendel Crawford, Angus Eve, Philbert Jones (Trinidad and Tobago).