The FIFA Futuro III course was organised by AIFF with the help and guidance of FIFA at the Football House, Dwarka, New Delhi from 4th to 10th December 2006. The course was designed to give the participants a wide view and concrete knowledge of FIFA, its activities and the way modern day football is run and administered. This was a “Teach the teachers course� also and the participants can now impart the knowledge gained to other football administrators in the region.

Name	Nation
Khalid Delawar	Afghanistan
Mukhtar Ahmed Rustami	Afghanistan
Ahmed Satah Al Fatah	Bangladesh
Md. Abu Nayeem Shohag	Bangladesh
Ugyen Wangchhuk	Bhutan
Sanam Norbu	Bhutan
Dr. Md. Ehsani	IR Iran
Hooshang Nasirzadeh	IR Iran
Ali Azim	Maldives
Shah Ismail	Maldives
Ahmed Y Khan	Pakistan
Khalid Farooq Hashmi	Pakistan
Hafiz Marikar	Sri Lanka
Neil Ubeyasiria	Sri Lanka
Anil Kamat	India
C S Jha	India
Satyjit Sadanandan	India
Prince Rufus,Group II	India (West Bengal – IFA)

Name	Posted by FIFA at
Jurg Nepfer	Zurich
Cesar Grande	Zurich
Petr Fousek General Secretary,	Czech Republic FF
Brendan Menton	Kuala Lumpur
V. Manilal Fernando FIFA Development Office,	Colombo
David Borja	Zurich
Chrysantha Pereira CEO,	Sri Lanka Football Federation

Day 1 Monday

Opening Ceremony- Distribution of FIFA kits sponsored by Adidas, Photo Session

FIFA and its development activities

Introduction, admin matters, allocation of tasks

Marketing setup in a Member Association and a Club

General Mgmt FIFA Statues, regulations, Confederations, Structure, activities

Day 2 Tuesday

Member Association standard statutes and organisation

Obligation towards FIFA and Confederations

Committees and Departments

Relations with Committees

Human Resources

Filing Correspondences

Women’s’ Football

Day 3 Wednesday

Planning

Strategic Planning

SWOT Analysis

Business Plan

Formation of groups with Planning exercise. “Development of Futsal & Beach Soccer in Maldives and to make Top 5 in Asia by 2020 in Futsal & Beach Soccer

MA Finance Management

Budget & Control

Finance Control & Budgeting, announcement of presentation by groups.

Guest Lecture (Refereeing)

Day 4 Thursday

Development of Futsal & Beach Soccer in Maldives and to make Top 5 in Asia by 2020 in Futsal & Beach Soccer

Day 5 Friday

Marketing, Target Products, Mktg Plan, Mktg proposal

Presentation by groups including my Group

Club structure and administration, Statues, Regulations

Guest Lecture (Coaching)

Day 6 Saturday

Event Mgmt

Communications

Crisis Mgmt

Day 7 Sunday

Press Conferences

Role Playing

Questions & Answers

Closing Ceremony and awarding of certificates

Official Dinner

Mr. Prince said about his experience that....
The entire course was very fruitful and an eye-opener at the way Football is governed and run and managed as a Business. We had open discussions and exchange of views and this helped us all greatly to appreciate each others nations, cultures and football development and aspirations. It was like a great family with constant encouragement from Instructors.

However once the course was over, it was also stressed that it would be a waste if it was not implemented at the workplace. This we promised to do at whatever level at every given opportunity and to keep FIFA posted on a quarterly basis on this.

In addition I mentioned that since the countries participating (except IR Iran) did not have a realistic chance in the near future to play in the FIFA World Cup, we could set up a “Poor Man’s World Cup� on the same lines as the FIFA WC with participating nations from all 6 Confederations being middle or low ranked in their Confeds. This would keep fans interested, accelerate football development in these nations and would also help earn money through good marketing.

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