The Former Football Goal keeper Gumpe Rime to be part FIFA’s Coach Educator Project
FIFA’s Coach Educator Project
Itanagar: Former Arunachal Pradesh junior India team goalkeeper Gumpe Rime has been selected by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) for FIFA’s Coach Educator Development Pathway Project, India-2022.
Ram is the only one from Northeast India to be selected for the FIFA Coach Education Programme.
AIFF has selected a total of 25 coach educators to be part of the Pathway Project which will be led by FIFA Senior Manager Coaching Development Mohammad Basir, FIFA Technical Expert Mohammad Basim and Director Coach Education AIFF Savio Medeira.
The project will include activities such as e-learning, online and on-site modules as well as individual mentoring.
25 coach educators have already completed the e-learning module in September and are set to participate in another online module from October 3 to 18. This will be followed by an on-site module in Goa from November 1 to 5.
Raim is the Head Goalkeeping Coach at Reliance Foundation Young Champs in Navi Mumbai. A native of Aalo, West Siang, Ram represented various clubs across India as a professional footballer for 16 years. He holds an AFC A coaching license, the first and only one from Arunachal.
Raem is one of the first two Goalkeeping Coach Educators in India.
He was India’s goalkeeping coach at the AFC Asia Cup 2017. He has the honor of representing India as a player and as a coach. He also represented India at the Asian Youth Football Championship in 1994 and was India’s goalkeeping coach at the AFC U23 Asia Cup, 2018.
