Sports Management
Psaila is a national figure with regards to sports, acquiring respect especially with the positive results of the Malta national football team. He is a well qualified coach. From a football club coach he was propelled to the National Team stage where he was actively involved for 9 years at all levels of national teams with the last two 1991-1993 being National coach.
Under his tenure the Malta national football team produced some very good results, including the first World Cup qualifying match, which led to the Maltese not ending at the bottom of their groups, and played epic games against Italy, Greece and Portugal. In fact he was awarded the Footballer of the month in May 1992 for the performances of the team and was selected as Man of the Match of Malta 1-2 Italy on December 19, 1992 by journalists. He won the National Sportsman of the Year award in December 1992. Pippo also won the Maltese National Basketball Ladies' League as coach and also the Maltese National Waterpolo Men's League, also as coach.
In 1993, Psaila was elected to the post of Director of Sport of the Malta Olympic Committee, a post he still retains. Under his guidance both as Director of Sport and also as Malta's Chef de Mission for the past 14 years at all games, Maltese athletes excelled and achieved the best results in sporting history in the GSSE, Mediterranean Games, Commonwealth Games, in the Olympic games and in the European Youth Olympic Festival, where the athletes won a total of 204 medals which is 80% of the medals won to date by the Olympic Committee, since 1929.
In 2003 he was the director of the GSSE games hosted in Malta, where the host nation did very well, achieving the best result ever produced in these games. Psaila directed the event quite successfully, and the participants called the edition as best ever, both from a sports perspective and a financial perspective.
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