Jakarta (MidLand) – The Indonesian Football Federation (PSSI) has prepared a long-term development program for female football athletes according to age categories in order to produce a superior national team that excels at the international level.
“We are preparing for long-term age development, not only that home base“It’s a month, two months,” PSSI women’s football head Papat Yunisal said during an interview in Jakarta on Monday.
He explained that long-term construction focuses on certain areas that do not interfere with other activities such as centralization of training.
The players, he said, will also be affected in some way home education so as not to ignore or interfere with their formal learning process.
“Essentially, we are preparing different layers of players from 12-year-olds to become 15-year-olds, and from 17-year-olds to become seniors,” he said.
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Yunisal said long-term training will be carried out for a minimum of five years to prepare the young players well.
Currently, he said, the process of selecting players for training is still ongoing through regional-level tournaments in the country.
“For example, in the region we will have several top players, so they will be trained and when the time comes, they will be hired for a long-term coach,” he said.
Yunisal admitted that the development of Indonesian women’s football still lags behind many other countries, especially in Southeast Asia. PSSI wants to create a solid foundation through the continuous development of athletes.
For this reason, he explained, the PSSI also greatly appreciates the presence of tournaments such as the MilkLife Soccer Challenge which takes place thanks to the collaboration of the Djarum Foundation company with Milk Life and which will take place from 25 to 28 May 2024 at Kingkong Soccer. Arena, Cijantung, Jakarta.
He said the tournament series, in which hundreds of primary school girls participated, could be a good basis for preparing high school juniors aged 10 to 12 for further education.
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Reporter: Aloysius Lewokeda
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