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The South African Football Association's National Director of Coaching, Conti Kubheka, has described the eight days SAFA Level Two Coaching Course that ended on Sunday as a great success and praised the 24 participants that attended it. The course was held from 27 July to August 3 at the Victoria Lake Inn in Germiston, Johannesburg.   “This is a highest level course offered at SAFA which grants successful participants an A Licence,” says Kubheka. “The course that we have just finished is of a high quality because it incorporates some of the material from the FIFA level Three Course which is a course for those who want to be professional coaches.

The 24 participants in the SAFA Level Two Coaching Course held in Germiston

In particular, one wants to acknowledge the big names coaches, former Bafana Bafana players and former household club players who attended this course and walked out full of praise of the course content.

“The coaches also very much appreciated and enjoyed the presentation from one of our own, Pitso Mosimane - who is the Bafana Bafana Assistant Coach, a former successful club coach and former player – who shared his experiences as a coach and gave tips that participants identified with,” says Kubheka.

According to Kubheka, South Africa has a shortage of Level Two coaches. He says we have too many coaches stuck at the Introduction Level, whom SAFA is trying to move to Level One. “Even at Level One we have a lot of coaches, but because most of these are attached to clubs, it is difficult to have them released by their clubs to take part in Level Two during the football season. That's why we have a slow movement between Level One and Level Two, because it depends largely on their availability.”