Staff REPORTER
ITANAGAR, Oct 6: Former Jr Indian football team goalkeeper Gumpe Rime of Arunachal Pradesh has been selected by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) for FIFA’s Coach Educator Development Pathway Project, India-2022, among 25 coaches across the India. Rime is lone footballer from the Northeast region to be selected for the FIFA coach education programme.
The AIFF had selected 25 coach educators to be part of the pathway project which will be led by senior manager, FIFA coaching development, Mohmmed Basir, FIFA technical expert Mohmmed Bassem and Director Coach Education AIFF Savio Medeira.
The project will comprise of activities like e-learning, online and on-site modules as well as individual mentoring, which will provide the coach educators with growth opportunities.
The 25 coach educators have already completed e-learning module last month and are taking part in online module from October 3-18, which will be followed by the on-site module I Goa from November 1 to 5 next.
Rime is the head goalkeeping coach at Reliance Foundation Young Champs, based in Navi Mumbai.
A native of Aalo, West Siang district, Rime played for 16 years as a professional footballer representing various clubs across India. He holds AFC A coaching license - first and only from from Arunachal. Rime is one of first two goalkeeping coach educators in India. He was the goalkeeping coach for India in AFC Asia Cup 2017.
He has the distinction to represent India as a player as well as a coach. He represented India in Asian Youth Football Championship in 1994 and was also the goalkeeping coach for India in AFC U23 Asia Cup in 2018.