Shipanga On Women’s World Cup Study Group

7 June 2011

Namibia’s national women’s football coach Jacqueline Shipanga has been appointed by Fifa as member of the technical study group at this year’s Women’s World Cup, taking place in Germany from June 26 until July 17.

As associate of Fifa’s expert panel, her main task during the tournament will be the monitoring and analysis of participating teams at matches and training sessions as well as thorough discussions and the exchange of information with players and coaches off the field. It is Fifa’s aim to detect current trends in the football game and to initiate discussions on controversial issues such as the “passive offside”.

After the tournament, a final report on the technical study group’s conclusions and recommendations will be made available to national associations to enable them to improve their team’s playing techniques.

“Shipanga’s appointment by Fifa comes as a pleasant surprise since she was trained as football coach under the German football programme ‘Deutsches Fußball Projekt Namibia’,” reads a statement from the German Embassy.

The initiative was organised by the German Olympic Sport Federation (DOSB) in close cooperation with the German Football Association (DFB) and financed by the Federal Foreign Office.

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