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Dubai Sports Council Continues Plans to Develop Emirati Coaches and Nurture Young Talents

Dubai Sports Council Continues Plans to Develop Emirati Coaches and Nurture Young Talents

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54 per cent of all coaches in Dubai sports clubs are Emiratis
 
United Arab Emirates,  September 23, 2020:  The Dubai Sports Council has reaffirmed its commitment to development plans and programs dedicated to supporting Emirati coaches, young sporting talents and academies, as well as sports at schools, despite the challenges posed by COVID-19 since the first quarter of this year.


Empowering Emirati coaches and developing young Emirati talents has been one of the Council’s primary focus since its inception and it has launched a number of programs and initiatives over the years to meet those goals, and has achieved considerable success through optimal investment of resources.


The Council has organised a number of training workshops and seminars - in partnership with leading international federations and top stars - for their development and progress, and have opened many doors of opportunity for them in Dubai clubs.


Over the years, the number of Emirati coaches at the Dubai clubs has been on the steady rise and today, 70 of the 130 coaches – or 54 per cent - working at the clubs are Emiratis. 


The initiative to empower and develop Emirati coaches started 10 years ago following directives from the then Chairman of DSC, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, to appoint Emiratis as assistant coaches of the first teams at all clubs in Dubai.


Following the decision, the Council launched programs to identify and promote young Emirati coaches, and organised a number of workshops with top international coaches from countries like France and Spain for their development.


The Council also opened doors for them to work as assistant coaches with the first team and to obtain advanced training certificates, which has allowed many of them take over the top position since. Today, 10 Emiratis, who have emerged from these programmes, hold professional training licence (Pro Licence) which allows them to train first teams, and 7 of them are working with clubs outside Dubai and with different national teams.


The Council also made a decision to allow only Emiratis to helm reserve teams at Dubai clubs, and today the heads of all reserve teams are locals.
 
Discovering talents


Over the years, the Council has also launched a number of initiatives to support the youth sector and organised training workshops, symposiums and international tournaments for different age groups like DSC Academies Championship, U13 Dubai Intercontinental Football Cup, Dubai International U16 Football Championships, Dubai International Junior Basketball Championship and Dubai International Junior Handball Championship, which allow Emirati youngsters to gain exposure and experience from playing against top club teams from Europe, South America, Africa and Asia.


To power the professional development of high-potential football talents at Dubai clubs, last year the Council signed a partnership deal with du LaLiga High Performance Centre (HPC), which will see two players from each of the four Dubai clubs - Al Nasr, Al Wasl, Shabab Al Ahli and Hatta – travel to Spain for du LaLiga HPC’s summer program in Spain, where they will raise their level of play in competitive matches against the best LaLiga youth clubs. 
The Council has other similar programmes like the ‘Talent Development Programme’, the ‘Future You Programme’, the ‘Future Striker Programme’ and the ‘Future Goalkeeper Programme’.
 
School Sports


The Council has also launched similar initiatives and programmes to encourage and promote sports in schools, which it sees as the base of the sporting pyramid in Dubai. The most notable of these initiatives is the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Order of Merit for Sports Education School, which seeks to encourage both public and private schools in the Emirate of Dubai to achieve both academic and sporting excellence, and nurture young sports talents.
The aim of the Order of Merit is to improve the general health and vitality of school students; to promote healthy behaviours in the school community; to create a healthy, safe and sporting environment in schools; to develop sports services in schools; and to create the right environment for gifted young athletes to prosper and infuse them with the spirit of fair play.

 

 

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