A whistle is not a qualification. ZBF C, B and A are the licences this draft proposes. Rename the levels if you adopt FIBA or TBF certificates instead — then teach those, do not teach both and confuse everyone.
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For school teachers and academy assistants. Four days: safety, safeguarding, ball-handling progressions, small-sided games, how to speak to a child. Required for Kids Innovation leads.
For ZNBL assistant coaches. Offence and defence principles, practice planning, load, and how to sit a star without starting a war. Required for Division 1 benches from 2027.
For head coaches and national-team assistants. Scouting, camp design, staff leadership, and a reviewed video of their own practice. The candidate is filmed. The course is not only lectures.
Every level runs in Stone Town and in Chake Chake in the same season. A Pemba coach is not asked to pay two ferries and a hostel to sit the same course Unguja coaches walk to.
The Coach Innovation Lab meets twice a year: one problem, one weekend. Example problems for 2026: training through Ramadan heat, and building a press-breaker with players who have never seen one.