In Auckland from 16-18 October, the Vanuatu Football Competition department attended a workshop on COMET (Player Registration & Competition Management) combined with FIFA Connect and other OFC Competitions training.
OFC Media reports, over 20 staff from the OFC Member Associations have gathered in Auckland for the three-day event as part of the training to improve their association’s player registration and competition programs.
Vanuatu football’s competition manager, Batick Bong Shem and Nasse Carlo attended the workshop from October 16-18.
For Batick, the workshop gathers them to share their experience after the second COMET workshop for the OFC cluster organised early this year from March 20-22 in Auckland New Zealand.
VFF has been running COMET system for awhile now and is used mostly in the National Super League and OFC Competition levels.
Carlo now runs the FIFA Connect program in Vanuatu and is another databasee system that registers all the VFF stakeholders to the FIFA database, and also organises the information in a systematic way.
OFC Competition’s Director, Chris Kemp said it is part of the OFC’s strategy to invest in building the capacity the MA’s.
“Focus is on Competitions Management, particularly the implementation and use of COMET,” he explained.
The workshop also offers MA staff the opportunity to meet OFC’s newest Competitions Managers, Jake Piper and Ben Hill, who join OFC from Capital Football Federation (NZL) and Auckland Football Federation (NZL) respectively.
