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I Nthe past year, FIFA launched an innovative FIFA Talent Development Scheme (TDS), offering bespoke assistance to member associations (MAs) to help them achieve their full potential and continuing the measures taken to reduce the disparity in the level of football between different regions of the world.
TDS is part of FIFA’s collaborative work with MAs to increase global competitiveness.
World football’s governing body is increasing its investment through a holistic approach to technical and education projects; also represented by new performance analysis and insights on the field as well as the FIFA Training Centre, launched in 2021 as a modern and dynamic platform to share knowledge with technicians of the game.
This is a FIFA technical development scheme (TDS), where best under 13, 15 and 17 are identified and developed in six centres around the country to improve football in the country.
Basis
The programme is expected to be held in six centres countrywide on a weekly basis.
In a nutshell, FIFA wants to improve football, especially in developing countries like Eswatini, to
match those in Europe and other continents.
In simpler terms, this is more of an academy where these players are going to be trained on weekly basis for continuity sake.
There was excitement when this programme was launched in the country this past week.
In five to six years, when properly implemented and sustained, this programme should be producing quality players for the national team.
Proper planning and execution will be key in realising this dream and the
need to have a proper recruitment strategy for juniors to be incorporated into the programme cannot be overstated.
Avoid
This is one programme where the EFA cannot avoid to fail because it is aligned to its vision of being a sustainable football association of international standard and encompassing a framework of football development that will bring regular and frequent success for its officials, clubs and players nationally and internationally.