Participants at the just concluded 2023/2024 pre-season of Nigeria Professional Football League Referees and Assessors seminar were all enthused with the level of preparations and packaging of the programme at the prestigious V I P lounge of Moshood Abiola National Stadium Abuja.
The 10-day intensive retraining of football Referees, Assistant Referees and Referees’ Assessors was organized by the Referees’ Committee of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in conjunction with Nigeria Football Referees’ Association (NRA) to prepare them physically fit and acquaint them with the new amendments of the laws of game of football.
In an exclusive interview, a FIFA FUTURO 111 Trained Referees’ Instructor and Assessor, the class representative of the participants during the section, chief Eke Onyeforo offered his impression about the just concluded Referee Assessors training Programme and described it as a great experience.t. Narrating his experience, Chief Onyeforo averred thus “Football is a dynamic game as it keeps changing and upgraded. Assessors just like the referees must key into this dynamism to be relevant in the global institution and knowledge. What you knew last year might have become obsolete, thus this training, which featured top class Referees’ Instructors like our Dada Obafemi CAF/FIFA Technical Instructor, who for over two decades had trained and produced International Instructors was a participant of the programme to upgrade his knowledge of the laws of modern football. So, it is the same for all of us, Instructors and Assessors.