Ivan Vella (centre), the national team manager, has successfully completed a course in football management, organised by UEFA in association with the University of Lausanne. Vella was one of six Maltese candidates who were awarded the advanced certificate, the others being Joe Cassar, from the MFA, Angelo Chetcuti, the vice-president of Birżebbuġa FC and a member of the MFA Executive Committee, Gerard Ellul, the team manager of Valletta FC, and Futsal Malta Association officials Mark Borg and Kenneth Cefai. Picture shows Vella with Malta FA president Norman Darmanin Demajo (left) and general secretary Bjorn Vassallo at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.