As part of the preparation of football referees of Tajikistan for the second half of the season, a five-day course “FIFA MA Elite Referees Course” started in Tursunzade on July 10, the Football Federation of Tajikistan reports.
The main instructor of the courses is FIFA instructor Lim Kee Chong An Yan from Mauritius, who worked at two World Cups in 1994 and 1998. The fitness instructor of the courses is FIFA and AFC instructor Yulia Tarasova from Uzbekistan.
The referee courses are attended by 35 football referees – 14 head referees and 21 assistants. In addition, there are two instructors from Tajikistan among the participants – Umed Rakhimov is a technical instructor, and Kristina Pronzhenko is a fitness instructor.
The five-day FIFA course for referees in Tajikistan consists of theoretical and practical classes and will end on July 14.