Andrea Rodebaugh: "with the mass participation, Cuban football will grow"

Andrea Rodebaugh: "with the mass participation, Cuban football will grow"
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28 October 2014
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In Cuban sport there is a clear and troubling reality: the current international football results are well away from the international average. Therefore between feints and goals, welcome the hand which is directed to the island from anywhere in the world.

In recent days, the Soccer Association of Cuba (AFC) received a visit from the Mexican Andrea Rodebaugh, consultant and instructor of the International Federation of football associations (FIFA) for the women's branch in the areas of Concacaf and Conmebol.

Andrea, former member of the Mexican team that attended to the cup of the world of United States 1999 and trainer of the female team under 20 years which intervened in the World Championship Chile 2008, agreed to talk to the readers of Cuba Contemporánea.

Why Cuba and what are your objectives of work?

-In its work agenda, FIFA includes various programs for the development of football around the world, including consulting, training and competitiveness. AFC requested consulting and improvement for trainers course, I was assigned this task by the maximum body.

My purpose has been to provide my skills to the Cuban trainers during a week-long course, as well as to assess the progress of women's soccer in the country to determine what their more precarious aspects are. Then I will make a recommendation to FIFA, which has its office in Zurich, and then will decide how to act in order to help and make massive football in this nation.

After visiting several schools sports initiation, in which you have seen some groups of girls with the ball, what do you think about it?

-My first visit to Cuba was in 2007. And really, at that time, women's soccer was giving here its first steps. But apparently so far allows me to say that it has grown considerably. The most transcendental lies in that the federative and coaches are aware of the massive is the necessary path to this sport. FIFA provides total support (technical and financial) to their various associations. But the triumph lies in the use of each country. In these visited schools I've checked many organization and a way of doing things right. I made a tour of the Grandes Alamedas Court, in the municipality of Caimito, and I was amazed with that enviable installation. There a numerous group of girls trained, and even shared some touches of the ball with the members of the selected provincial u-17. I thought it was fantastic. I am convinced that in the not-too-distant future advances will be appreciated.

Do you have any advice so the girls decide to practice football?

-Football is synonymous with boys and girls playing in a field. Its practice is not only valid for men. And also I have felt by that in the schools visited here, where I have seen girls in many skills with the ball, playing with the boys. My advice to all that were already initiated in this sport is that they improve that talent, so one day they represent their nation in a women's world.

And as I was so close a FIFA federal I did not lose the chance to ask her what she thought of the recent ruling by the highest body of world football. FIFA announced that it will begin a campaign to prohibit control of footballers by companies and investment funds. And Andrea was categorical: "really, this does not happen in the women's branch, which is my work. But President Joseph Blatter believes appropriate to give course to recommendations made by Michelle Platini, the UEFA President. Certainly, nobody should take profit deliberately from the effort and dedication of those who are delivered in a football field".

In Cuban sport there is a clear and troubling reality: the current international football results are well away from the international average. Therefore between feints and goals, welcome the hand which is directed to the island from anywhere in the world.

In recent days, the Soccer Association of Cuba (AFC) received a visit from the Mexican Andrea Rodebaugh, consultant and instructor of the International Federation of football associations (FIFA) for the women's branch in the areas of Concacaf and Conmebol.

Andrea, former member of the Mexican team that attended to the cup of the world of United States 1999 and trainer of the female team under 20 years which intervened in the World Championship Chile 2008, agreed to talk to the readers of Cuba Contemporánea.

Why Cuba and what are your objectives of work?

Andrea Rodebaugh, consultora e instructora de la FIFA

-In its work agenda, FIFA includes various programs for the development of football around the world, including consulting, training and competitiveness. AFC requested consulting and improvement for trainers course, I was assigned this task by the maximum body.

My purpose has been to provide my skills to the Cuban trainers during a week-long course, as well as to assess the progress of women's soccer in the country to determine what their more precarious aspects are. Then I will make a recommendation to FIFA, which has its office in Zurich, and then will decide how to act in order to help and make massive football in this nation.

After visiting several schools sports initiation, in which you have seen some groups of girls with the ball, what do you think about it?

-My first visit to Cuba was in 2007. And really, at that time, women's soccer was giving here its first steps. But apparently so far allows me to say that it has grown considerably. The most transcendental lies in that the federative and coaches are aware of the massive is the necessary path to this sport. FIFA provides total support (technical and financial) to their various associations. But the triumph lies in the use of each country. In these visited schools I've checked many organization and a way of doing things right. I made a tour of the Grandes Alamedas Court, in the municipality of Caimito, and I was amazed with that enviable installation. There a numerous group of girls trained, and even shared some touches of the ball with the members of the selected provincial u-17. I thought it was fantastic. I am convinced that in the not-too-distant future advances will be appreciated.

Do you have any advice so the girls decide to practice football?

-Football is synonymous with boys and girls playing in a field. Its practice is not only valid for men. And also I have felt by that in the schools visited here, where I have seen girls in many skills with the ball, playing with the boys. My advice to all that were already initiated in this sport is that they improve that talent, so one day they represent their nation in a women's world.

And as I was so close a FIFA federal I did not lose the chance to ask her what she thought of the recent ruling by the highest body of world football. FIFA announced that it will begin a campaign to prohibit control of footballers by companies and investment funds. And Andrea was categorical: "really, this does not happen in the women's branch, which is my work. But President Joseph Blatter believes appropriate to give course to recommendations made by Michelle Platini, the UEFA President. Certainly, nobody should take profit deliberately from the effort and dedication of those who are delivered in a football field".

- See more at: http://www.cubacontemporanea.com/en/news/11558-andrea-rodebaugh-mass-participation-cuban-football-will-grow#sthash.Q7HT9Ljh.dpuf

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