November 22, 2004

November 22, 2004

In a bid to catch up with East Asia, FAS has appointed a fitness conditioning coach

The fitness conditioning coach, Aleksandar Bozenko said that the level of Singapore fitness is on par with other ASEAN countries but is clearly a notch or 2 below East Asia & the Middles East so his job is to ensure Singapore catch up with them.

To him, with improved fitness Singapore would then be able to match other Asian countries outside ASEAN.

The 52-year-old Serbo-Montenegrin came with the recommendation of National coach Radojko Avramovic

FAS Media release

FAS APPOINTS FITNESS CONDITIONING COACH

The Football Association of Singapore is pleased to announce the appointment of Fitness Conditioning Coach, 52-year-old Aleksandar Bozenko.

This new position will be responsible for the physical fitness of the National 'A' and Young Lions (Under-23) Teams. Mr Bozenko's immediate task will be to improve the National team's physical fitness for the Tiger Cup 2004 competition in December.

Mr Bozenko's duties will also include planning and implementing fitness, strength and conditioning programmes for the FAS National Football Academy.The Serbo-Montenegrin, a former FC Dynamo player, was fitness coach at Partizan Belgrade and was most recently Head Coach of the U-20 team of the Sultanate of Oman."

Aleksandar is very experienced in designing and planning fitness programmes for teams, especially leading up to tournaments, and that is the kind of expertise we need," said Singapore Head Coach Radojko Avramovic.