Third phase of AFC Pro Licence course begins tomorrow

The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) is all set to conduct the third phase of the AFC professional coaching diploma course from tomorrow as the first two phases of the course have already been completed online.

The game's local governing body, who had previously held different coaching courses of A, B, C levels, is organising the Pro Licence course for the first time under the supervision of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as 23 coaches, including 12 local ones, from eight countries are taking part in the third of the five modules.

The local coaches are Maruful Haque, Saiful Bari Titu, Julfeker Mahmud Mintu, Golam Rabbani, Masud Parvez, Ujjal Chakrabartee, Hasan Al Masud, Jakaria Babu, Abu Faisal, Rashed Ahmed, SM A Asifuzzaman and Jahan-e-Alam.

Abahani's Portuguese coach Mario Lemos and Mohammedan's English coach Sean Lane are also involved while the remaining nine overseas coaches will join from Korea, India, Bhutan, Maldives, England and the Netherlands.