Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Kuala Lumpur: It will be soon graduation day for the members of Project Future Referees Batch 2009 who on Thursday began their last training session, the Final Development Course on 17-22 November 2011 in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
Eleven referees from across the continent will take part in the course which will be instructed by Anprasert Pirom (THA), John Chia (SIN) and AFC Project Future Referees Manager George Cumming (SCO). AFC Deputy General Secretary Hasan Al Sabah opened the course.
Project Future is the AFC’s elite coaching and refereeing development programme where budding or new referees and coaches from the MAs are groomed for two years.
AFC General Secretary Dato’ Alex Soosay has congratulated the referees for their efforts so far throughout the two-year period of training and urged them to continue to work hard to pass the last hurdle before they can graduate successfully from the highly coveted programme.
“The referees in Batch 2009 of Project Future Referees have experienced a lot in these two years they are training with us and have overcome a lot of challenges,” he told the-afc.com.
“This refereeing programme of the AFC aims to make sure that our continental refereeing constantly improves and reaches the world’s standard and we want to take our refereeing to the whole world.
“With this big goal in mind, it is expected that a lot of people are aiming for this programme, so I’d like to encourage the referees in the batch to remember this fact and strive harder to pass their last hurdle and graduate from the course.”
The participants in the Final Development Course are Alejandro Azcurra (AUS), Muhammad Nazmi Nasaruddin (MAS), Tang Hing Fu (HKG), Gholami Matak Komeil (IRN), Mikami Shoichiro (JPN), Kichin Roman (KGZ), Abdulrahman Ibrahim Al-Jassim (QTR), Khamis Mohammed Al Marri (QTR), Ahmatgaleev Artur (UZB), Rahimov Akmaljon (UZB) and Casey Reibelt (AUS).