The curriculum focus is to provide a framework and understanding of practical coaching tools to improve the player's technique and to expand the tactical awareness of the players function within the team, by improving the coaches ability to create game like situations in practice that challenge and improve the individual and the team. The successful candidate should be able to devise a training session to develop and correct technique through proper teaching progression, have an understanding of the principles of attack and defense and be able to identify technical and tactical breakdowns within the course of play and set training sessions to correct them.
Testing covers the area of methods, tactics, laws, team management and practical coaching.
The candidate is required to plan and conduct a training session in the practical environment. This course is designed for coaches who are working with U12 to U14 teams. It has changed somewhat since then. This outline is no substitute for the class time required to pass the course. The principal portion of the course is time spent on the field.