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Football diplomacy efforts of the Philippine Football Federation have yielded gains for its grassroots development program and the multisectoral effort to extend aid to the victims of Typhoon Pablo, PFF president Mariano Araneta said Saturday.
In an interview with GMA News Online, Araneta said the German Football Association and Germany's Federal Foreign Office will send Thomas Roy, an expert in youth and grassroots (development) to help us in talent identification...build the youth system in the country.
They are going to fund the stint of this German expert here. The contract I think will run for about two years, extendable for another two years, Araneta said. The PFF expects Roy to be in the Philippines by March.
Roy is the manager of the DFB office in West Bayern. He is a goalkeeper instructor of the Bavarian FA.
German football coach Thomas Roy is expected to arrive in Manila by March to begin a two-year stint to help develop the Philippines' grassroots and youth football system, according to Philippine Football Federation (PFF) president Mariano 'Nonong' Araneta.
The German youth system is probably the best in the world. They have the youngest national players now. They started 2002, ten years ago, when after the World Cup in Japan they said we have to revamp the whole system, so they started with youth academies, the grassroots again. This guy is one of the architects of the program, Araneta said.
He recalled that two years ago, when the DFB asked the PFF how they could help football in the Philippines, the PFF said Germany can develop the new breed of homegrown football players.
A key component of the grassroots program dubbed Kasibulan is the establishment of five to six centers for excellence—football academies—at strategic locations.
The PFF plan is to have two of the academies in Mindanao , one in Metro Manila, one in the rest of Luzon and two in the Visayas.
Araneta said he asked HRH Prince Abdullah Ibni Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah of the ASEAN Football Federation to look into how the AFF can help in the set-up of the two academies in Mindanao.
Football diplomacy efforts of the Philippine Football Federation have yielded gains for its grassroots development program and the multisectoral effort to extend aid to the victims of Typhoon Pablo, PFF president Mariano Araneta said Saturday.
In an interview with GMA News Online, Araneta said the German Football Association and Germany's Federal Foreign Office will send Thomas Roy, an expert in youth and grassroots (development) to help us in talent identification...build the youth system in the country.
They are going to fund the stint of this German expert here. The contract I think will run for about two years, extendable for another two years, Araneta said. The PFF expects Roy to be in the Philippines by March.
Roy is the manager of the DFB office in West Bayern. He is a goalkeeper instructor of the Bavarian FA.
German football coach Thomas Roy is expected to arrive in Manila by March to begin a two-year stint to help develop the Philippines' grassroots and youth football system, according to Philippine Football Federation (PFF) president Mariano 'Nonong' Araneta.
The German youth system is probably the best in the world. They have the youngest national players now. They started 2002, ten years ago, when after the World Cup in Japan they said we have to revamp the whole system, so they started with youth academies, the grassroots again. This guy is one of the architects of the program, Araneta said.
He recalled that two years ago, when the DFB asked the PFF how they could help football in the Philippines, the PFF said Germany can develop the new breed of homegrown football players.
A key component of the grassroots program dubbed Kasibulan is the establishment of five to six centers for excellence—football academies—at strategic locations.
The PFF plan is to have two of the academies in Mindanao , one in Metro Manila, one in the rest of Luzon and two in the Visayas.
Araneta said he asked HRH Prince Abdullah Ibni Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah of the ASEAN Football Federation to look into how the AFF can help in the set-up of the two academies in Mindanao.