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Technical team
school players
By David Kyei
06/08/2010
The desire by the Ebo Mends led
technical team to leave-no-stone-unturned in their quest to
prepare the team adequately for the coming season continues with
new and interesting developments.
To ensure that the players did not
only have the best physical conditions for the coming season but
would also be abreast with the laws of the game, the deputy team
manager, Referee (rtd) John Okrah, has been assigned an hour of
every Friday afternoon training session to school the players.
As a retired FIFA referee and a
referees’ instructor in the Ashanti region, Ref. Okrah took time
to take the players through some of the fundamental laws of the
game to bring the players understanding of the rules to a higher
notch.
To ensure that every member of the
new team Kotoko understands the rules so as not to blindly make
arguments or challenge officials, all members of the backroom
staff and even the Technical manager.
After the extensive lecture, the
floor was open for the players to ask questions and it was
interesting how very touching and important questions were
asked.
With answers provided, the looks
on the faces of the team really showed that they were happy with
the exercise with some even expressing the eagerness for next
week’s session.
Speaking to asantekotokofc.org
after the lecture, Technical Manager, Ebo Mends, expressed his
satisfaction with the response of the players to the lecture.
“I have come to do a solid project
with the team and this is just one of the many programmes we
have planned to bring the players up to a good stabdard,” he
said.
On his part, Ref (rtd) Okra says
he is taking his time to take the team through all these so that
“when a player unnecessarily commits an infringement or attracts
a card, there will be no excuse for him to escape punishment”. |
