Top handball tactician Gerald Juma begins training in Hungary

Renowned youth handball coach Gerald Juma has landed in Hungary ready for his training at the University of Sports Science.

Sponsored by International Olympics Committee through the National Olympics Committee of Kenya, the course will see Juma undergo two months of training for a diploma in handball coaching at the respected Hungarian institution.

He was set to attend the training, for three months, from March 2020 but the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic forced it to be postponed to September 2020 and then indefinitely after international travel remained suspended.

Juma is currently a coach at Mbooni Boys High School in Makueni County who participate in the Kenya Secondary School Sports Association games as well as the Kenya Handball Federation men’s premier league.

The tactician, who is also a member of Rangers Handball Club’s technical bench, a team in the KHF league, says the diploma from the recognized institution carries more weight and will open many doors in his coaching career.

He has a certificate in coaching and mentoring from Kenyatta University, level two coaching certificate attained in 2013. He has also attended other short IHF-sponsored courses in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Zanzibar and believes this opportunity will open more doors for his coaching career.

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A multiple Kenya and East Africa school games champion with his former school Kimilili Secondary, Juma landed the opportunity after being appointed as the NOC-K academy under-15 coach.

Last year, he led the national under-18 boys’ team to a bronze medal at the Africa Zone Five IHF Trophy championship held in Nairobi.

“After this course, I am hoping to come back into the sport in a bigger and better way. I will be open to new challenges,” Juma said upon landing in Budapest.

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April 3, 2023 saw the beginning of the International Coaching Course (ICC) spring semester at the Hungarian institution.

The ICC spring semester started with 16 coaches from all over the world including Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Grenada, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Maldives, Namibia, Oman, Pakistan, Swaziland, Uganda, and Yemen.

The coaches will get intensive training in both theoretical and practical subjects with specializations in different sports such as basketball, football, handball, judo, swimming, tennis, volleyball and wrestling.

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