Africa Boxing Confederation President Bertrand Mendouga has major plans to revolutionise boxing in the continent.
Why do you think African boxers have not been doing well in major global tournaments like the Olympics and World Championships recently?
The national federations should know that they too have an important role to play in the improvement of boxing standards in Africa. We must work as a team. Where AFBC can assist we will always do so but success will only be achieved through a concerted effort.The lack of confidence in the AFBC had for the last five years chilled the African national federations. When I was elected, I said that I was the President of all Africa and not for one country, and I promised to work with everyone.
Lack of such commissions, for instance, gives leeway to some federations’ executive choosing coaches of their choice instead of letting the coaches’ commission to select coaches for the national team. This has at times led to mediocre performance among some national teams to the detriment of boxing development in Africa.
We have taken the commitment since July 16 in Algiers to organize courses for coaches, referees-judges, evaluators, ITO’s, technical delegates, scoring machine operators and ring doctors on the sidelines of each competition that will be organized in Africa including zonal championships.
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