International Hockey Federation

LAHORE: The FIH high performance coaching course is starting at a local hotel here from Wednesday (today). Twenty-five participants from fifteen countries and ten local experts will attend the course.

“The week long activity aims at imparting latest knowledge of the coaching to an elite gathering of technical experts at one forum, said Tayyab Ikram, FIH coaching manager, on Tuesday. He said foreign participants from Canada, England, Sri Lankan, Japan, Italy, South Africa, Namibia, Holland, South Korea, Bangladesh, Oman, UAE, Egypt, Indian and Malaysia were taking part in it. “It is an important course as for the first time games ruling body, the International Hockey Federation, had combined the coaching programme with the evaluation and grading of the coaches as FIH experts,” he added.

Tayyab is the head course conductor and Germany’s Paul Llisek is the course conductor. Rana Mujahid, a former hockey Olympian, is the coordinator. Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shahyar M Khan will inaugurate the useful activity which will be conducted in two daily sessions.

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