Tue, 09 May 2017 12:16:41 +0000
By Michael Miyoba
FORMER Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Kalusha Bwalya has been appointed chairman of the CAF Technical and Development Committee.
The Zambian soccer icon confirmed this yesterday on his official tweeter account @KalushaPBwalya.
“Proud to have been appointed as chairman of the #CAF Technical and Development committee,” read his tweet on his official page.
And Ghanaian Kwesi Nyantankyi has been appointed CAF first vice-president while Democratic Republic of Congo’s Omari Constant is the new second vice-president.
The appointments were announced yesterday at the CAF congress in Bahrain.
During the same congress, serving CAF executive committee members were tasked to head various committees which saw Kalusha being appointed to lead the CAF technical development committee.
According to article 37 of CAF statutes: The CAF Technical and Development Committee will be responsible for collaborating with national associations to develop methods of training teams.
The committee will also be in charge of improving the qualification levels of administrators, instructors and coaches by organizing courses and seminars.
The committee is responsible for preparing documents to deal with the education and training techniques for all football technicians and assisting in the production of educational films.
The committee will also be responsible for making recommendations to the executive committee to develop football in the national associations and recommending and requesting coaches and trainers to fill vacant posts in national associations and promoting and developing all aspects of football, including women’s and youth football.
The committee will also be responsible for analyzing the basic aspects of football training and technical development and studying the methods and means of discovering and promoting talented football players across the African continent.
Kalu is an executive committee member of the Confederation of African Football.
He served as FAZ chief from 2008 to 2016 when he lost the FAZ presidency to Andrew Kamanga.