The First
West Africa - ICCE Global Coach Conference
Winneba, Ghana,
November 24-25, 2000.
Report from ICCE
President Dr. Uri Schaefer
Dear Friends,
I am taking this opportunity to report to you with great enthusiasm concerning the first
West Africa - ICCE GLOBAL COACH conference held in Winneba, Ghana.
The conference was very well organized by Steve Noi - our dear member from Sth Africa. His
contribution to the success of the conference was second to none.
Furthermore, Steve, a native Ghanian, returned to the place of his birth and received the
support and outstanding cooperation of the National Sports college and the local
University Faculty for Physical Education.
The presentations made were very well structured and presented and the event included an
opening ceremony conducted by the Deputy Minister for Sport as well the National Sports
College Director. During the two days of the conference, further presentations were made,
among them - by the 1st Vice-President of the Gahana Olympic Committee the topic of sports
marketing; a presentation related to the History of Sport in Ghana by the director of the
Sports College as well as Dr. Jurgen's Kozel two presentations on Coach Education in
Europe and my presentations on the ICCE and Spiz.com as well as on the Coach Education
Trends in the 3rd Millennium.
All of these were very well accepted. The relations that developed between us and the
delegates and the organizers in particular were very special, warm and genuine.
Furthermore, we were assured by the Deputy Minister and the officials from Ghana, as well
as from Liberia and Togo, that they indeed are going to join the ICCE.
They further expressed their thanks and appreciation to the ICCE and SPIZ for all the
assistance provided in organizing this conference which resulted in the formation of a
Committee to enhance and deepen and develop coach education in Ghana in order to set
standards and systematic structures in this field as all agreed that this is a need which
arises and be addressed
I thank Dr. Kozel for his participation, and I presented small tokens of appreciation to
the organizers and the delegates from Togo and Liberia. I do hope that we will see them at
the next ICCE conference in UTAH.
As far as I am concerned this was a dream come true!
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Uri Schaefer
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