Hi Eunice, how are you keeping ? long time no read
I've got some news for you. As you can imagine, Mauritius will be in some way affected by the world cup since its not that far away from South Africa. Yesterday I saw for the first time a tv program about the current developments in football (soccer) in Mauritius. The program was called "Kick Off Moris". Mauritius and Rodrigues are setup in 5 zones, and those 5 zones have in total 13 regional football teams. Most of them still very young. Its all new. There is also a first league which is sponsored by Barclays. They young generation are now competing for the Copa Coca Cola Cup.
The state, the private sector and a few foundations have joined forces together to give football a new launch. It looks promising but will take a bunch of years to ripen as most new teams are composed of very young players.
In parallel to make it very professional, the confederation of football of africa is training local coaches who will then after passing their exams receive the licence C which is internationally recognised. After a few years we should then have coaches with licence B and A.
Licence C is training young player of age 13-15
Lincence B is for training the juniors
Licence A is for training in first division
A guy named Vincent Rogers who has the FFF trust and is somehow affiliated with the Centre technique Francois Blaquard seems to have a big say and important impact on the progress of football in Mauritius.
Kick Off Moris can be seen on the local MBC channel at around 09:15pm on Wednesdays.
By the way, there was also a 3 day workshop recently by the Football college who gave a training on making proper football TV productions by HBS: Host Broadcasting System.
So Eugine, if you are still in the football sector, i hope this might be of useful information to you ? How are things going concerning the world cup ?
I'm really happy to see that there is progress being made in the local football scene. There are many talents here and its good for our youth to have some local competition to look forward to. Hope in future to see some teams play in those many stadiums that we have for once a past era when local football was so BIG!
greetings from the island, dietmar