Dimapur, Nov. 21 (EMN): A month-long football coaching for students’ of St. Xavier College, Jalukie is underway with separate sessions for boys and girls by well-experienced coaches – Volker Hofferbert and Maria Magdaline Hofferbertare from Germany and Mexico respectively.
The programme is scheduled through the SES Germany, a German organisation of the Senior Professionals. The daily schedule of the coaching session is attended by 63 students who will be certified on merit at the completion of the training to be concluded in the first week of December. The experienced coach and mentor, Volker sees great future for the football talent in the region with much needed professional attention and training. Volker, the SES Expert has comprehensive skills in pedagogics and possesses a proven ability for the training football talents backed by his past experience of being a football (soccer) coach of teams from youth to national teams in Germany and abroad over the past 20 years. Putting to effect, learned and experiential knowledge, Maria Magda, coach for the girls, renders additional classes on stage performance to the students besides the football sessions. The students enjoy the training schedule and experience for themselves how professional training influences their personal growth beyond the limits of a game or sport. The programme as a whole revitalises the evergreen value of physical education with its regular and professional suitability to the young generation. “The training is an indication that the students need to train themselves in various levels to better their personality and suit themselves to the upcoming social scenario,” commented Rev. Dr. Francis Cheerangal, the principal of the college. The college looks forward to expanding the training session in various levels for its students to ensure that academic learning is supplemented with a wide range of supportive learning.
