TimB4Last
25 Sep 2007, 12:24 PM
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=256/newsid=593080.html
Youth development was a key theme as the UEFA Symposium for Coach Education Directors began.
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Youth licence
Andy Roxburgh, UEFA technical director, explained the next step in the continent-wide qualifications for football educators - the introduction of the UEFA A youth coaching licence to sit aside the senior Pro, A and B licences. Those certificates have existed since six UEFA member associations - France, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain and Italy - were the first to sign the UEFA Convention on the Mutual Recognition of Coaching Qualifications in 1998, with the aim to turn coaching into a full-fledged profession. Now 160,000 endorsed licences have been earned throughout the continent.
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I would love to hear a first-hand report from anyone attending this event and/or anyone who has attended such events in the past. Is there anything comparable here in the US?
Also, how has the addition of youth academies changed the US coaching landscape (if at all)?
Thanks in advance!
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Sorry about the title, but it's straight from the UEFA headline. I think this is my first post on this forum. I am not (yet) a coach, but I am a parent of a five-year-old who is just dipping his toe in the local soccer waters.
Youth development was a key theme as the UEFA Symposium for Coach Education Directors began.
....
Youth licence
Andy Roxburgh, UEFA technical director, explained the next step in the continent-wide qualifications for football educators - the introduction of the UEFA A youth coaching licence to sit aside the senior Pro, A and B licences. Those certificates have existed since six UEFA member associations - France, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain and Italy - were the first to sign the UEFA Convention on the Mutual Recognition of Coaching Qualifications in 1998, with the aim to turn coaching into a full-fledged profession. Now 160,000 endorsed licences have been earned throughout the continent.
....
**********
I would love to hear a first-hand report from anyone attending this event and/or anyone who has attended such events in the past. Is there anything comparable here in the US?
Also, how has the addition of youth academies changed the US coaching landscape (if at all)?
Thanks in advance!
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Sorry about the title, but it's straight from the UEFA headline. I think this is my first post on this forum. I am not (yet) a coach, but I am a parent of a five-year-old who is just dipping his toe in the local soccer waters.