The second day of the landmark FIFA Amateur Football Environment Analysis workshop wrapped up today in Juba, uniting an influential group of key stakeholders to map out a transformative blueprint for grassroots football across the nation.
The high-level strategic sessions saw active, collaborative participation from a diverse cross-section of the sporting and civic spectrum—bringing together government representatives, university delegates, veteran coaches, elite referees, and prominent football academies.
A Unified Vision for the Grassroots Game
The workshop functions as a critical diagnostics platform, analyzing the current state of amateur football while identifying key structural opportunities for long-term growth. By uniting policy makers, educators, and technical experts under one roof, the initiative is driving progress across four core pillars:
Strengthening Development Pathways: Aligning local academy structures with national objectives to ensure young talent is effectively discovered and nurtured.
Enhancing Infrastructure & Governance: Engaging government and institutional stakeholders to secure sustainable frameworks, funding, and facilities for the amateur game.
Elevating Technical Standards: Integrating real-world insights from active coaches and referees to improve the quality of competition, officiating, and youth mentorship.
Fostering Academic Partnerships: Leveraging national universities to pioneer sports science research, structured athletic programs, and data-driven training regimens.
Driving Collective Progress
Throughout the day, participants broke into intensive collaborative working groups, diving deep into data-driven strategies designed to make football more accessible, inclusive, and highly structured at the community level.
“A thriving senior national structure relies entirely on a robust, well-regulated, and highly supported amateur foundation.”
In his closing remarks, the President of the South Sudan Football Federation (SSFF), Mr. Francis Amin Michael, expressed profound gratitude to FIFA for its unwavering support toward the country’s football ecosystem. He firmly reiterated the federation’s commitment to fully implementing this amateur and grassroots development project nationwide.
Furthermore, Mr. Amin called directly upon the workshop’s participants to act as catalysts for change, urging them to take the knowledge gained in Juba and aggressively implement it across every corner of the country.
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