The Dominican Football Federation at a press conference held this Wednesday, November 9, announced the launch of the Generation Amazing Project, hand in hand with the Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean Football (Concacaf) and the National Institute of Physical Education (INEFI). ).
The event was headed by the president of Fedofútbol, Rubén García Ciprián; Alberto Rodríguez, director of Inefi; Jennifer Roche, coordinator of the Generation Amazing project, for Concacaf; together with Mr. Marco Santillán, FIFA and Concacaf instructor.
The Generation Amazing Project is an initiative of the Qatar Football Association that has been successfully implemented in several countries in the Middle East and Asia and will now be launched together with Concacaf to start a pilot plan in 11 countries in the region. which includes the Dominican Republic.
It will have a significant focus on developing community trainers through training, which in turn will benefit thousands of youth and children across the country.
This program will allow Concacaf member associations to optimize their own study and training plans for coaches in the youth categories, providing them with the tools they need to offer better quality teaching.
Both García and Rodríguez praised the project implemented by Concacaf.
“For Fedofútbol it is a mission accomplished. This program will be used by more than 700 students in different parts of the country, through the Football Federation, Inefi and Concacaf”, said García.
“The idea is to carry out the pilot project not only for a month or a month and a half, but beyond several years, which is our goal,” added the president of Fedofútbol.
For his part, Rodríguez indicated that this project will have a great impact on schools and neighborhoods in the country.
“Schools need this pilot project that can reach the entire country, because that will affect schools and neighborhoods in the comprehensive training of educational centers,” Rodríguez said. “This plan will help fight crime and build better citizens.”
While Roche shared a message from Concacaf director of development Jason Roberts. In it, he thanked the authorities that are going to implement the program, Fedofútbol and Inefi.
Three duly trained instructors were selected for the Dominican Republic: Betzaida Ubri, Isairis Minaya (both belonging to the technical staff of the women’s national team) and Franklin Brito (U-15 men’s national team manager); and for the pilot plan, six regions of the Ministry of Education have been chosen, among them six educational districts in six provinces throughout the country, such as: San Juan, Santo Domingo, El Seibo, Espaillat, Santiago and Puerto Plata.
Each of them has a district coordinator, five educational centers with 25 students for a total of 750 students and two volunteer facilitators to complete 10 facilitators per district and 60 for the entire plan that will cover a period of six weeks as a pilot phase.