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Japan dominate AFC Grassroots Awards

Japan dominate AFC Grassroots Awards

November 12 – Going down on the sidelines of the third AFC Ladies’s Soccer Convention, the 2024 version of the awards noticed Japan’s Nozomi Hiroyama and Miyo Okamoto recognised because the Youth Coach of the Yr (Male) and (Feminine) respectively whereas the Prince Takamado U-15 Regional League gained the Youth League of the Yr title.

Japan virtually accomplished a clear sweep of awards, however had been pipped within the academies part by Vietnam’s PVF Academy and China’s Suzhou Soccer Middle.

Vietnam, who earlier within the day picked up the awards for the Finest Grassroots Chief and Finest Grassroots Undertaking, added yet one more feather to their cap when the Hanoi-based PVF Academy was bestowed with the accolade of Youth Academy of the Yr (Boys). In the meantime, China PR’s Suzhou Soccer Middle was awarded the Youth Academy of the Yr (Ladies).

Males’s youth coach of the 12 months Hiroyama mentioned: “The award is a big honour and I need to thank everybody who has helped me in my profession. Irrespective of how lengthy I proceed serving as a coach, I’ll at all times be most pleased with the gamers I’m presently teaching. Watching them develop each day is my largest achievement.”

Ladies’s youth coach of the 12 months Miyo Okamoto added: “I’m receiving this award on behalf of all coaches who’ve contributed in the direction of furthering the ladies’s sport. On the JFA, we’re devoted in the direction of establishing a trinity for the event of ladies’s soccer. This contains the strengthening of varied nationwide groups, enhancing youth growth and enhancing teaching programs”.

“I hope that I can proceed to spotlight the various methods soccer advantages us – from protecting us bodily match to increasing our minds and enriching our societies,” completed Okamoto.

“It’s a matter of nice satisfaction that, following the renewal of our three-star membership—which already affirms us as among the best academies in Asia—the AFC has additional validated our efforts with this recognition,” mentioned My Dung Nguyen, Deputy Director Normal at PVF Soccer Academy.

“We’ll maintain enhancing our expertise identification system, scouting essentially the most promising gamers, and nurturing them to develop into skilled gamers able to competing each in Vietnam and overseas. Moreover, we are going to concentrate on strengthening our technical workers and fostering the event of extra certified coaches.”

Contact the author of this story, Harry Ewing, at moc.l1731445353labto1731445353ofdlr1731445353owedi1731445353sni@g1731445353niwe.1731445353yrrah1731445353

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