http://www.footballfedtas.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/_temp_/Skill_Training_Participant_Manual.pdf


At last this is available for the general public.=d>

There is a lot of useful stuff in this FFA Skill Training Certificate. I've done a lot of this stuff with ages 11 - seniors at an NPL club. Instead of the useless old FFA Youth and Junior Licences, this Skills Certificate has replaced the Junior Licence.

If anybody reading this has not done a recent Skills Certiciate, I'd recommend this course. One acquires a lot of info for only a few hours tutelage and minimal costs.



I did something similar as a FFA Specialist Rep coaches course after the C Licence and learnt heaps. Any FFA Advanced Trained coach, C Licence, B Licence upwards, who has not completed a Skills Certificate in the last year, will probably see stuff here that is useful for any age group, including adults.

The NTC does a lot of this training ground stuff as do SAP.

I'll connect some of it up to the four components of technique part of this Performance section - First Touch, Passing and Moving ( Striking the Ball), 1v1 Attacking and Defensive skills and Running With The Ball.

This stuff is easy to see on PDF diagrams which explain things well.




In the English language, believe you me, this stuff does not exist on the internet, apart from some of the old Arsenal , Chelsea, PSV, Ajax and KNVB stuff put on the internet by a Mr Brown and now taken down.

The reason it doesn't exist is an indictment of the English speaking football countries, essentially England and the United Staes football methodology, because this FFA stuff originates from Spain, Holland, France and Germany.







Edited by Decentric: 15/5/2015 05:31:16 PM

Page 17 onwards are drills/ exercises.



*Page 17 has a shocking explanation of an outstanding exercise I've seen the state SAP coach do. within his SAP players. I've done this with ages 36 down to 11. I might turn up in better form somewhere else on the FFA website.

This is a great First Touch exercise, but the explanation is abysmal on the FFA website.





*Page 22 is an exercise I've been trying to explain for years on 442.

One of the best technique exercises I've found for Running With The Ball, First Touch, Body Shape, off the ball movement, passing and moving, game sense, types of turns, communication.

I've seen FFA's Norm Boardman do a lot of this exercise well, and Arie Schans and Ad Derkson from the KNVB do even better stuff with this exercise.




*Pages 25 and 27 are great for explaining 3v1 and 4v2 rondos . I could find nothing decent anywhere on the internet on this topic in English.

Decentric

These manuals have been on the My Football Club site for sometime including all three Goalkeeping manuals.

http://www.myfootballclub.com.au/index.php?id=188

It would be worth saving/printing the goalkeeping ones in particular if you are keen to have ongoing access to them as I understand that the format/structure is changing considerably.

I am attending what I believe is the first of the re-structured goalkeeper coaching courses next weekend to be presented by Dean May.

Not sure what qualification if any there will be at the end of it or if it is going to be assessed but it is 18 hours over 2 days so I am hoping it is worth it.

I had not realised.](*,)

I've sent some of this sort of stuff via email to plenty of people reading this. I had permission from the former TD of Football Fed Tas to do this, but not to put it on the internet for general consumption.

In a FFA State Regional conference a few years ago, in one presentation one FFA presenter said they knew the Community Coach education, Junior, Youth, Senior, had poor content. There was a recognition from FFA they had to improve.

From what I've seen of the Skills Certificate, they have improved out of site. =d>

I had done a lot of this stuff as part of specialist rep coaches course a few years ago. I strongly advocate that this was a valuable as anything I did in the C Licence.

I repeat that any FFA C Licence, or B Licence coach who has completed Senior training in the last few years, and is not familiar with the content and training ground exercises of the Skills Certificate, even though the second lowest course in the FFA coaching pathway, probably has inadequate knowledge for developing technique at any age level.

I had the underpinning background of the KNVB Youth Certificate, which covered gaps in FFA the Senior C Licence.

Also, the threads I've set up on First Touch, Running With The Ball, Striking the Ball, would appear to have less relevance now I know this is available and on the internet, through the Skills Training Certificate. I'd encourage anybody reading this, to undertake the FFA Skills Certificate if one has not done it in the last year, and you are interested in coaching.

Only 4 out of 24 coaches who did the C Licence with me, have had access to this content. Consequently, their knowledge in coaching technique acquisition can probably be improved.





Edited by Decentric: 27/5/2015 08:46:57 AM

And this is the best it gets if you are in blighty

http://www.huntsfa.com/coach/coaching-practices

What did you learn from your keeping course, mate?

Dean May is one of the most controversial coaches to ever coach in Australia, certainly within FFA. He is also a very knowledgeable keeping coach, anointed by Zelco as one of the best in the country.

I did a keeping course with him that was well presented. I struggled to concentrate because I'm not very interested in keeping, apart from their role as a sweeper. If I'm honest May should've failed me. In an assessment I couldn't stop watching the field players. He was lenient in that instance.

Fantastic course presented by Dean May and Tony Franken, so we had the benefit of the two best credentialed goalkeeping coaches in the country.

This new community goalkeeping coaching award course replaces the old certificate/licence/diploma courses and is about 16-18 hours. Two tutors (Neil Young and Dave Whalley) attended and will deliver the course locally in the future.

Was probably about 20% classroom and the rest practical. My main take away points were (similar to outfield coaching) - is it fun, safe and does it look like football? In other words, incorporate goalkeeper training as much as possible into general training but also develop practices that can be undertaken by 3-4 keepers which still have a competitive element to them (rather than isolated drills).

Covered coaching keepers from discovery stage through to seniors. Included some video analysis which showed how Mat Ryan really chases the game and engages with the back four (I couldn't help thinking that it would not have been possible to include this element of the course to the same extent if Mark Schwarzer was still the Socceroos keeper). Time spent on defending the space between the defence and the penalty area as well as just defending the goal.

Although we had some junior keepers come in for a couple of hours on the first day, most of the practical involved the participants so there were some sore bodies by the end (I went to bed at 8pm after the first day!)

I have come away from the course very enthused and will be videoing our State league 18s, reserves and first team this week, specifically focusing on the engagement between the back four and the keeper.

The next step is the advanced level 1 goalkeeping course which is 5 full days. Prerequisite for that is the three generic modules of the C licence which I do not have yet, so will be looking to complete those hopefully in August.

I would highly recommend to anyone thinking of getting this qualification that they attend this course the next time it is held in the eastern states as you will get Dean May and Tony Franken rather than a tutor.