Luca Laurenti for the course: Crucial to invest for the athletics coach - FSHF

Luca Laurenti for the course: Crucial to invest for the athletics coach

The Albanian Football Association started in December the course for the athletics coach. The head of this course is the athletics coach of the national team of Albania, Luigi Febbrari, who has gathered some of the best lectors in Italy and is offering to the participants, an excellent opportunity for a professional qualification through a course that will offer the best of contemporary experience.

Part of the leading team of this course is Luca Laurenti, the second coach of athletics of the national team. Speaking for the current situation of the course, Laurenti expressed his satisfaction for this initiative and the commitment of the participants, while stressing that nowadays you cannot talk about sports or football without mentioning the role of the athletics coach.

‘’It is a valuable initiative. The role of the athletics coach has become key during the latest years and now it is a necessary figure for the technical staff of every team. AFA understood how important is to invest in this profession and this course approves this fact. This is only the beginning, we will organize many courses because there have been many requests, interest and participation. It is truly a great initiative and I want to thank AFA for the trust. The course is progressing well and the lectures are held online and I think that the final product will be great and the interest will increase. Through the online communication platforms, we brought to this course the best professors, in order to have a specialized training course.

Nowadays, a team has a staff with athletics coach within the technical staff. There is no more one athletics coach, big clubs have 7, 8 and even 9 coaches, where each one is specialized in a different field of physical preparation. To talk for a sport without mentioning the athletics coach is impossible. The concept that the coach does it all does not exists anymore’’- declared Laurenti for AFA.

Former football player, Orjand Abazaj, who is one of the participants of this course, praises the initiative of the Albanian Football Association and underlines that the role of the athletics coach is becoming more and more on in search in the world of football. ‘’I think that this is a positive

initiative of the Association, the world has moved forward in this direction and this is a positive praise. I think that more attention should be focused on the athletics coach for the young players, for a gradual training, with a program, in order for Albanian to raise players who play abroad. Personally, I hope that this will be an opportunity to move forward and give an impetus to the physical preparation in Albania. The level of the course is high. We are thrilled for this initiative. The professors, who have been coaches and trainers in renown teams in Italy and Europe, have developed scientific researches’’- declared Abazaj. According to the regulation, every football team in Albania should have in its staff an athletics coach.