Asian Football Confederation President Mohamed Bin Hammam opened the AFC Elite Education Seminar today at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, this morning. The week-long seminar will see 212 participants attending 146 practical and theoretical sessions under the guidance of 15 leading football experts. The program covers coach education, futsal refereeing instructors, referees’ instructors, referees’ assessors, men elite referees, women elite referees and match commissioners . The instructors include Les Howie, National Football Development Manager of The Football Association, England, Holger Osieck, Head of Technical Development, FIFA, Aime Jaquet, Technical Director, French Football Federation, France; Erich Rutemoller, Director of Coaching, Deustche Football Bund, Germany, KHJ Van de Wetering, Director of Coaching and Education, KNVB, Netherlands, and Magni Mohr, Conditioning Instructor, FIFA.