Good to see a high proportion of Canterbury football people in the first intake for the new "OFC / New Zealand A" coaching badge.
(Only 15 on the course):
Ceri Evans (a man of many talents and unusual even in world terms in that he is a top academic - former Rhodes scholar, Oxford Ph.D, one of the top psychiarists in NZ - and is one of his country's best-ever footballers with 56 caps and 116 games for Oxford United in the second tier of English football. The letters after his name include: MBChB MA MSc Dip ForMH MRCPsych PhD.: University of Otago MBChB; University of Oxford MA (Experimental Psychology); member Royal College of Psychiatrists (Gaskell Gold Medal winner)
Gareth Turnbull
Mike de Bono
Alan Walker
James Bannatyne (former Canterbury Utd goalkeeper and Canterbury University coach)
Yes with Ceri working with F1 Teams and the All Blacks.