Newly-appointed Philippine Football Federation (PFF) technical director Josep Ferré has been following the progress of the game right here for a very long time now and as he takes on a brand new function within the federation, the Spanish coach has his eyes set on additional igniting youth growth within the nation.
Ferré isn’t any stranger to the native soccer scene after having referred to as the photographs for the Philippine nationwide males’s soccer group throughout the 2022 AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup, the place the Filipinos completed seventh amongst 10 golf equipment.
But even after he left the Philippines, the 40-year-old soccer coach mentioned he stayed up to date with what was occurring within the Philippine soccer circle.
“I had a really nice experience living here and from that moment, I was always following what was going on in the Philippines—in the national team, in the youth teams, and in the federations,” Ferré mentioned in a press convention on the PFF headquarters on Tuesday.
“I am grateful to share my experience in the past years.”
That’s why when the chance to be the following PFF technical director introduced itself, Ferré agreed to deal with the job.
“He has a very big role for Philippine football. It was a long process and obviously there was no shortage of applicants but during this course, Pep was actually in the office while we were searching for our next TD,” PFF director of soccer Vince Santos shared.
“He didn’t come to apply but through our conversation that day, we just realized that he actually had a background.”
As Ferré assumes the technical director function, he mentioned constructing a robust basis on the youth stage could be an important consider remodeling the game right into a extra inclusive and progressive endeavor.
“In football, most of the time, decisions are taken based on the needs of today or the needs of yesterday, but not so often the decisions are taken thinking of the benefit of the people who will be here in the next 15 or 20 years,” Ferré, who had teaching stints in Indonesia, India, Thailand, and Puerto Rico, mentioned.
Ferré additionally understands that their sources are restricted, however he beamed with optimism that the brand new PFF group will profit from these in attaining their long-term objectives.
“If you ask me how confident I am, I will tell you [I am] fully confident depending on the resources because resources, everywhere in the world, are limited,” Ferré mentioned.
“We know that funds are limited, always and everywhere, but with the funds we have we will go to the maximum that we can get from that.”
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
