FIFA to stage Women’s football administration course

FIFA will stage a women’s football administrators course in Jamaica from December 5-9, 2016.

The course will be held at the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Technical Centre, the University of the West Indies, Mona.

The FIFA has appointed Yolanda Camacho from Costa Rica, who is more widely known as the organiser and managing director of the Women’s Under-17 World Cup soccer tournament held in 2013.

Camacho is a lifelong soccer fan and has spent many years volunteering at soccer events in Costa Rica. For the women’s under-17 tournament, she spent three years meticulously planning the two-week event that would host teams from 32 nations. Costa Rica was the first Central American nation to host a World Cup tournament. Read more