November 12 – Going down on the sidelines of the third AFC Girls’s Soccer Convention, the 2024 version of the awards noticed Japan’s Nozomi Hiroyama and Miyo Okamoto recognised because the Youth Coach of the Yr (Male) and (Feminine) respectively whereas the Prince Takamado U-15 Regional League gained the Youth League of the Yr title.
Japan virtually accomplished a clear sweep of awards, however have been pipped within the academies part by Vietnam’s PVF Academy and China’s Suzhou Soccer Heart.
Vietnam, who earlier within the day picked up the awards for the Greatest Grassroots Chief and Greatest Grassroots Challenge, added another feather to their cap when the Hanoi-based PVF Academy was bestowed with the accolade of Youth Academy of the Yr (Boys). In the meantime, China PR’s Suzhou Soccer Heart was awarded the Youth Academy of the Yr (Women).
Males’s youth coach of the yr Hiroyama stated: “The award is a large honour and I need to thank everybody who has helped me in my profession. Regardless of how lengthy I proceed serving as a coach, I’ll all the time be most pleased with the gamers I’m at present teaching. Watching them develop day-after-day is my greatest achievement.”
Girls’s youth coach of the yr Miyo Okamoto added: “I’m receiving this award on behalf of all coaches who’ve contributed in direction of furthering the ladies’s recreation. On the JFA, we’re devoted in direction of establishing a trinity for the event of ladies’s soccer. This consists of the strengthening of varied nationwide groups, enhancing youth improvement and bettering teaching programs”.
“I hope that I can proceed to spotlight the various methods soccer advantages us – from conserving us bodily match to increasing our minds and enriching our societies,” completed Okamoto.
“It’s a matter of nice pleasure that, following the renewal of our three-star membership—which already affirms us as among the best academies in Asia—the AFC has additional validated our efforts with this recognition,” stated My Dung Nguyen, Deputy Director Basic at PVF Soccer Academy.
“We’ll hold enhancing our expertise identification system, scouting essentially the most promising gamers, and nurturing them to change into skilled gamers able to competing each in Vietnam and overseas. Moreover, we are going to give attention to strengthening our technical employees and fostering the event of extra certified coaches.”
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