Ilonggo football coach named monitoring head

MARK Anthony Pornan, head coach of Barotac Nuevo Football Club, was named head of the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) Center For Excellence (CFE) Monitoring Team in the Visayas Region. He was appointed by Center For Excellence project director Vince Santos during the "Center For Excellence National Football Coaching Conference" held recently last at Bago City Sports Center in Negros Occidental. Pornan is a class "B" Asian Football Confederation licensed coach and a Physical Education instructor at Western Visayas College of Science and Technology in Iloilo City. The CFE Football Coaching Conference, participated by 40 selected coaches nationwide, aimed to assist PFF Football Youth Development Program. The conference included both practical and theoretical sessions. Practical sessions covered basic techniques and skills development and technical and tactical aspects such as speed football, endurance development, strength and plyometric exercises. Theoretical sessions include the science of football such as the importance of warming-up and cool-down, the methodology of coaching, principles of training, Sports Medicine, Sports Nutrition and Hygiene and the CFE Youth Development Plan. The CFE project envisions of developing elite football players from Under-12 to Under-14 in preparation for the Go for Gold 2015 SEA Games (South East Asian Games). The project is funded by the Federation of International Football Association (Fifa) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).