South African U23 coach David Notoane has reflected on his recent visit to German club Arminia Bielefeld.
After numerous successful activations with digital coaching clinics and training sessions for kids from South Africa as well as other events, Arminia is considerably expanding its commitment in South Africa with several high-profile South African personalities from the worlds of sport, politics, culture and entertainment having already supported various measures in the past and helped to ensure the best possible implementation.
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During the visit, Notoane also watched training sessions of the German club's academy and also had the opportunity to watch Arminia's U17 team home game against MSV Duisburg.
The coach also had an opportunity to watch the Arminia's Bundesliga home match against VfL Wolfsburg at Schüco Arena and was accompanied on the trip by South African agent Ayanda Sigwili, who is the managing director of Dynasty Sports.
"I would like to say thank you so much to Arminia for this opportunity. It was a great experience for me and a great exchange. Arminia's work in South Africa is excellent and brings a lot of impact for our coaches and young players, we are very grateful for this," said an excited Notoane.
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Former Arminia footballer Tom Schütz said the German club was happy to have Notoane visit them.
"We are very happy about David Notoane's visit here in Bielefeld and look forward to further measures in South Africa. We did not expect to attract so much attention and interest in South Africa and this motivates us very much to further expand our very successful work together with the Bundesliga and our partners Schächter Sports and Dynasty Sports," said Schütz.
"This co-operation will include a series of activations in the development of young footballers and grass-root coaching, opening a soccer school and finding a PSL club partner in the upcoming year (2022). We are so grateful for the opportunity and interest that Arminia has shown in contributing in the football development of this country, so far it's been a great experience working with them and we are looking forward to the journey ahead," said Sigwili.
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