The two-day FKF PL and NSL club licensing workshop ended on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at the Movenpick Hotel in Westlands.The primary focus was on the CAF Club Licensing Online Platform (CLOP), featuring comprehensive training sessions for club representatives on platform usage.##NAJAVA_MECA_8002358##The participants received detailed presentations on the CAF Club Licensing regulatory framework (edition 2022), including explanations of the mandatory criteria for domestic and continental competitions.During the workshops’ opening ceremony on Tuesday, FKF President Nick Mwendwa warned clubs that it would not be business as usual, with non-compliant clubs facing expulsion from the league.”If you don’t meet the criterion, you will fail, and if you don’t do what you are supposed to do, you will be relegated. We are not joking when we say this, and there are no shortcuts whatsoever,” Mwendwa told the delegation.”Don’t wait until you are relegated and then start kicking up a fuss for no reason at all. That’s why we are having this workshop now, and we intend to repeat the process each year,” he added.NSL: Rainbow thrash SS Assad, move to top half of the log”The truth is we cannot build our football without clubs; the most important place where football is larger is at the teams. They are the feeder to the national team, and we can only make them better,” Mwendwa emphasized.The federation honcho stated that teams need to understand that nurturing players is their responsibility, and FKF can only help make it better and offer an enabling environment for them.”The clubs need to understand that the business of nurturing players and growing the game in the country is first and foremost their job. We pick it from where you are and make it better,” he added.He says club licensing will not only help teams have a better growth structure but also bring more benefits to the country.”This initiative, in particular, is to get you to have a structure that grows clubs. The benefits to the country are immense, as already witnessed in countries that have implemented it,” he offered.The workshops were conducted under the guidance of CAF CLOP Instructor Emmanuel Dasoberi, CAF CLOP Officer Hamza Sorouri, and CAF CLOP Expert Miguel Revera.The FKF WPL and NSL clubs will commence their workshop on Thursday, April 4, 2024, at the Movenpick Hotel.Bandari defender cleared for training after lengthy injury layoff
