Government focused on acquisition of qualified coaches  

Acting Director of Sports Development in the Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Sports, Ally Mayay, said so recently.

Mayay said to produce well-trained local coaches, his ministry is working closely with Malya College of Sports Development.

"We aim to see that we have many qualified local coaches, currently we are working very closely with Malya College of Sports Development, the college is organizing long and short-term courses," he said.

Mayay said so in response to The Guardian's inquiry on the progress of the government's plan to hire expatriate coaches as directed by Minister for Culture, Arts, and Sports, Pindi Chana. 

The minister recently said that the government has targeted athletics, soccer, boxing, basketball, netball, and swimming as priority sports disciplines.

She advised Mayay to start looking for qualified coaches that will operate in the mentioned priority sports disciplines.

Pindi revealed: "We have started with soccer, the government is paying for the senior national soccer team's foreign coach and now we want to have expatriate coaches in other priority sports disciplines."

The minister noted: "I'm asking the Acting Director of Sports Development in the ministry to start looking for qualified coaches both local and foreign."

In the past, the government hired Cuban coaches Pimentel Hurtado, Andres Eduardo Baro, Jorge Luis Bravo Rojas, and Jose Valdes Silver to take charge of athletics, boxing, and judo national teams.