The newly appointed Botswana Football Association (BFA) Technical Director, Serame Letsoaka, says coaching education remains pivotal towards developing football. This, he said, relies heavily on the training and production of highly assessed and accredited mentors. Letsoaka, who is also a FIFA and CAF instructor, made the comments during a media briefing on Thursday on the CAF B Diploma Coaching Course. He said football should be about development and has praised the potential he has found in Botswana. He said the development of coaches will help in improving the current and ailing poor performances of the national teams in all spheres. “We have to develop better coaches and managers who will know what to do both on and off the field and produce coaches that will have confidence to run training sessions as per the demands of the course,” noted Letsoaka. Letsoaka – a South African national – is of the view that coaches should be teachers of football to players of a tender age from Under-13 category. He said the CAF Coaching Diploma will be divided into two phases during the 20-days training with FIFA expected to send a delegate for the assessment and accreditation of the coaches into the…