Tanzania and Football

During our first day in Morogoro we went to meet the Regional Commissioner, the highest authority in Morogoro. He nicely welcomed all of us at his office and we introduced ourselves one by one.

When he started introducing him self to the group, he mentioned he used to be the National Team Football Coach and that now he is the Football Professor for the Football Coaches in Morogoro.
When I heard that, I was very exited to ask him about Football Academies in Morogoro, as I am a big Football Fan. He gave me the name of Professor Madundo, who is the Manager of the Morogoro Football Academy. We contacted him and he invited us to play a football game on Saturday, March 10th.

With the Morogoro Veterans Team

With Sean and Aldrey in the Morogoro Football Stadium

The Game

He also invited me to watch the practice of some of the Academy teams. It was a very nice experience and I was able to sense the football passion of the population in Tanzania.

Children´s Practice

Under 20 practice

I met the Academy Coaches and watched their practice carefully and I realized there is a great improvement opportunity in reference to a variety of exercises that can be used on their practices. The plan is to visit them again next week and help them with the football practice. Hopefully they will like the methodology I learned from my previous football coaches.

I will share more pictures related to my football coach experience in a future article.

Augusto Corrales
IBM Costa Rica