Bose Kaffo To Organise ITTF Coaching Course..

Following the dearth of table tennis coaches in Nigeria, former Nigerian and African number One female table tennis player, Bose Kaffo, is organising a five day International Table Tennis Federation Level One coaching course at the Indoor sport shall of the Lagos State Sports Council.

The programme which is sponsored by the Lagos State Government in conjuction with the International Table Tennis Federation started on Sunday with 30 coaches and table tennis players couple with the provision of twenty five table tennis boards.

According to Kaffo, a board member of the Lagos State Sports Council, the need to organise the course was to help update the coaches who do not have opportunity to participate in series of training programmes sanctioned by ITTF, stressing that it would also produce new table tennis coaches who would provide a platform for the regeneration of the sport.

The Olympian, who believed the sufficient of good table tennis players in the Lagos state needs to be complemented by outstanding table tennis coaches, said the training would afford the coaches to acquire latest phenomenon and also to acquint themselves with scientific and basic table tennis skills.

She said Egyptian Table Tennis Federation has over one hundred and seventy five coaches who are abreast of latest development in the sport and the gesture has paved the way for the Federatio to record outstanding progress and achievements in series of ITTF approved tournaments.

The training according to Kaffo, has been designed in such a way that it would accomodate the coaches and table tennis players where thirty coaches would be trained to obtain ITTF level 1 certificate, stressing that the course would place on platform where they would have opportunity to coach clubs, schools, and also to support the national coaches.

She explained that the ping pongers who are between six and eighteen years would help them to get started with correct and basic techniques of the sport and to get them interested in the sport while the programme would fortify the skilled players with basic skills to help them win laurels at the forthcoming at the National Sports Festival in Rivers State, in February, 2011.

Kaffo, who is among the best twenty Level One and two ITTF conductor in the world, said it would demeaning if she fails to add value to the improvement of the sport in Nigeria having been rated among the best, hence the reason she approach the state government for assistance to stage the course.

She praised Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola for his support and zeal to uplift the standard of the sport and also give the coaches an avenue to join comity of world's best coaches who are fortify with required training.

The Chairman of the Lagos State Sports Council, Agboola Dabiri, said the train the trainers programme would help the state to produce the best table tennis players and also aid their medal haul at the next National Sports Festival in Rivers State.

The President of Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, Kayode Abdulwahab Omotose, said Kaffo's programme was a welcoming development towards enriching the country with reputable coaches who in the next couple of year would have produce the best players who would outshine Egyptian ping pongers.

Omotose, said the NTTF would not relent in its efforts to support Kaffo in her bid to use her wealth of experience to uplift the sport to loftier height in the world.