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Basis for the FFA NC


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By Decentric - 7 Nov 2013 1:21 PM


At the FFA Regional conference, Han Berger elucidated why he devised a specific football curriculum in Australia.


When Berger examined countries with constant success, he used three criteria.

1. The countries consistently qualified for senior World Cups.

2. The best players played in the best leagues in Europe. If not their own they exported good players to EPL, La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga.

3. Their under 16s and under 20s consistently qualified for underage World Cups.


The countries identified as meeting these criteria were:

Europe: Spain, Germany, Italy and Holland.

South America: Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

The other successful European country, although only having a top class system since the mid 90s and the Michael Platini revised curriculum, manifesting in Clairefontaine, is France. It just meets the criteria, although much of it has been recent.

At the FFA regional conference, one state TD mooted Portugal. One person out of 170 suggested England.

Having identified the successful football countries the FFA NC was devised based on these aforementioned nations coaching systems. The only one not included, is Italy, because even though they have common ground with the other four European nations, their style of football is essentially reactive, according to FFA. The other European quartet are essentially proactive, which in FFA's infinite wisdom suits the Aussie psyche.

France, Germany, Holland and Spain have cohesive and holistic national coaching systems with high numbers of qualified football coaches, particularly at Advanced Level, that is C Licence or higher. England has very few trained coaches compared to the big five on the continent.
By Decentric - 20 Feb 2014 8:06 AM

nickk wrote:
WHats to stop any other nation dowloading the pdfs off the football australia website and also becoming a world powerhouse.



=d> :lol:

Interesting to see what sort of introspection and evaluation has been done in other countries by their national technical departments.