The candidate for the position of the President of the LFF, the Minister of the Interior Sandis Ģirģens (KPV LV) will offer important organizational positions to Juris Laizāns and Andris Vaņins.
In case of Girgen’s victory, the former Latvian national team midfielder Laizāns would become the Secretary General of the LFF. Laizāns currently works for the Russian football club “Krasnodar”, where he is engaged in the selection of new players.
In turn, the Latvian national goalkeeper Vaniņš has been offered the position of LFF sports director. Vanin is currently the second goalkeeper of the Swiss club “Zurich”, but in March the footballer said that he was ready to end his career if he did not have a binding offer after this season.
The portal “Diena.lv” has researched that Vaniņš does not have the necessary qualifications to hold a position in which an experienced athlete is seen by Ģirģens. This is provided for in the previously developed job description of the International Federation of Football Federations (FIFA).
It stipulates that the sports director must have extensive knowledge of national football, be a former player, have experience as a coach, have a top-class coaching diploma, have knowledge of football education and a number of other skills.
The highest Pro UEFA category coach license in Latvia, followed by A-UEFA, B-UEFA and C-LFF licenses. However, the candidate for the position of sports director Vanins is currently studying to obtain a license in the lowest or C-LFF category, the goalkeeper revealed in an interview for the July issue of the magazine Sporta Avīze, which will be published this week.
“After sitting at home for two months, I started studying for LFF coaches in category C. Cool, I like it! I learn a lot of interesting things. I am also studying for a goalkeeper coach. The training will last until August and the diploma will be in my pocket,” Vanin said that the resumption of football season after the crisis caused by the pandemic will make it harder for him to study for a license, he may have to skip some sessions, but the federation will still send homework and videos that the player is committed to learning.
“As an active footballer, I didn’t have time to learn, although I wanted to do it a long time ago. In the last couple of months, it has appeared and I realized – we have to learn.”
From December 2012 to the beginning of this year, the position of LFF sports director was held by Dainis Kazakevičs, who has already been appointed the head coach of the national team.
One week ago, Edgars Pukinsks, Secretary General of the LFF, told the portal “Delfi” that small changes had been made in the job description of the sports director. A national team has already been set up, headed by the head coach of the men’s national team to ensure the implementation and supervision of the football philosophy in a full pyramid from the national team to children’s and youth football, and the sports director will be the head of the football department education.
In a conversation with the portal, Pukinsks did not hide that the main candidate for this position is Yuri Andreev, who has previously worked for a long time as the head of the Education Department. Talks with him took place before the pandemic started, but now they have stopped halfway.
At its meeting on May 12, the LFF Board agreed to set July 3 as the date of this year’s Congress and calls on the LFF Appeals Commission to make a final decision on the eligibility of candidates for the new elections to the Congress.
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