UEFA expert lectures on football tactics

UEFA football expert Dr Zdenek Sivek will be chief lecturer at a “Tactics and Systems of Play” seminar at the Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence, Macoya, Tunapuna.

But this seminar sponsored by UEFA through the initiative of CONCACAF president Jack Austin Warner  has been put back to May 16 and 17 because of the CONCACAF Gold Cup Caribbean Zone playoffs in Martinique between April 23 and 27. Registration for the seminar closes on May 10 with CONCACAF director of development Richard Brathwaite.

Dr Sivek is vice-president of the Union of European Football Coaches and a former chief executive officer of the Czech Republic Football Association, and holds a doctorate in psychology and MBA from the University of Sheffield. Trinidadian Alvin Corneal, a member of the 2002 FIFA World Cup technical study group and FIFA instructor and another ex-Trinidad and Tobago star Lincoln Phillips, a FIFA instructor and specialist goalkeeper coach will also lecture at the seminar. The lecturers will focus attention on the history of playing systems, modern tactics in attack and defence, future systems of play and choosing the right system.