Clubs urged to help with mental issues

Social challenges: Selefa says clubs should engage qualified psychologists  PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
Social challenges: Selefa says clubs should engage qualified psychologists PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

FRANCISTOWN: For sometime now coaches have often accepted the main job of acting as makeshift psychologists to deal with various mental or social challenges facing players.

However, TAFIC centre back and former national player Gobonyeone Selefa has said that the trend in which coaches bear the responsibility of ‘improvised psychologists or social workers’ has to stop.

He stated that there is need for clubs to engage skilled people to deal with psychological and social challenges faced by players. Selefa was speaking at a counselling seminar organised by Football Union Botswana (FUB) in Francistown recently. FUB had organised the seminar in a bid to provide counselling to players from various leagues.

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