DARBAKI
ENDS COURSE IN BRAZIL WITH B-FUT INSTITUTO BRASILIERO DE FUTEBOL
Coach Darbaki is center ( Red)with other participants
----returns to USA; still wants to rebuild and coach Liberia’s Lone
Star
By Omari Jackson
ATLANTA, GA Sept. 08, 2009: Head soccer coach Youssef Darbaki of
Minnesota Twinstars ended three weeks attachment training in Sao
Paolo, Brazil, completing his dream of becoming soccer coaching
instructor.
Coach Darbaki was attached to Sao Paolo FC during the first week and
moved on to Paulista FC in the second week and Santos FC, soccer
legend Pele’s former club, under the umbrella of Professor Thadeu
Goncalves.
The course was sanctioned by FIFA, and organized by the Brazilian
Football Association, and coach Darbaki was one of several coaches
from Europe and Brazil who benefited from the program.
In the third week, Coach Darbaki studied method and preparation of the
Brazilian national and the youth team, with emphasis on physical
therapy, agility and technical development as well as the management
of players, both local and international.
Also in attendance were Brazilian ex-world cup player, Ricardo, who is
presently the head coach of Sao Paolo FC, and Coaches Antonio Mello
and Luxemburgo, formerly of Spanish Serie A club, Real Madrid, now
managing Santos FC.
Coach Darbaki, at the end of the attachment course, earned his FIFA
License, which now qualifies him to organize coaching clinics
throughout the world to arm coaches with skills and techniques needed
for the successful managing of a national team.
His next stop will be in Canada in October, this year, where Coach
Darbaki will run a two-week coaching clinic.
In a telephone interview from his base in Minnesota yesterday, Coach
Darbaki said, “Youth football featured prominently during the three
weeks, and I am glad that I can now help many coaches with skills and
knowledge for their career.”
He said one aspect that also came up during the course was how to
showcase the Brazilian soccer philosophy, “that has made Brazil more
successful than many countries.”
He said he will be running soccer academies with emphasis on “foot
communication,” a new philosophy that should be sweeping across the
soccer world, in few years from now.
Meanwhile Coach Darbaki urged Liberian sports officials to accept his
invitation to take over the national soccer team, Lone Star, that he
believes, “I can develop for better results.”
He said he has been working with several Liberian soccer players in
the United States, who have all encouraged him to help their country’s
national team.
At the time of writing, Coach Darbaki said he had submitted a letter
of intent with sports officials in Monrovia, and with time permitting,
he would continue to hold Liberia as a likely place to put his
professional expertise in developing the national team, as well as
youth teams for Liberia.
“Liberia is loosing time,” he said, “to start the first step of
developing a program to provide education to local coaches because
they are the ones who will develop local young players. This is a
formula, and with that there will be a base for the entire country.”
He spoke on the business side of sports, emphasizing that he has a
wide range of experience in player placement to top clubs in Europe
and the United States, as well as players pursuing their education in
colleges in the United States.
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