Dhaka,
May 22: BFF will soon get a computerised system to maintain details of all its stakeholders
across Bangladesh. This digitalized platform will register clubs, players,
officials, coaches and referees in every district and help BFF maintain the
records in a database.
This platform called ‘FIFA Connect’ will naturally help the national football
body to keep track of every single stakeholder through a single system.
Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Martin Sam conducted a two-day workshop with BFF
officials to determine the requirements in Bangladesh.
“The software has to be tweaked according to the requirements of each country
depending on their standards,” said Martin Sam during a brief break amid a
session with federation officials.
Sam explained that local BFF regulations may make it mandatory for each coach
to have a certificate course for registration in which case he would configure
the system in such manner that a coach would not be able to get registered
without demonstrating that certification. “Well, essentially it would be a club
responsible to get their coaches registered and it will also be up to them to
ensure proper certification.”
Describing further, Sam added that the registration system would include not
just a section of the stakeholders but it would register professionals and
amateurs.
Martin Sam said this was the preliminary workshop to form his initial idea
about the requirements. “There will naturally be several follow up sessions
with the local officials till the system is ready to implement.”
Sam would then be back in Dhaka again to train the officials who will be using
this software and implementing it at not only BFF headquarters but also in the
districts. “We have not yet decided about that, but I will certainly be back
for actual implementaion phase.”
He said, although the platform was being provided by FIFA, “The data and all
the information and anything that comes out of the platform will be fully and
wholly owned by BFF.”
Sam explained that the training and software was part of cooperation with FIFA
but the global football would have no rights over the data and information
later.
Sam’s two-day worksnop ended on Friday (May 19).
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