Football Theory – Introduction Course 1

Learning outcomes

After this course you will have a deeper understanding about:

• the need for universal references and language so you will have less miscommunication with players and staff;
• the difference between objective knowledge and subjective experiences so your coaching will be based on facts you can trust rather than the flavour of the month;
• what it means to keep the football bar high so your players will get a coach who practices what he preaches;
• the universal game characteristics so your coaching will be focussed on the elements that really matter in the game;
• the difference between the objective WHAT and the subjective HOW of coaching so you know when to listen to your subjective intuition and when not to.
• football is a team sport so you will no longer making the mistake of unconsciously analysing and coaching football as if it is an individual sport;
• the objective of the team functions Attacking, Defending and Transitioning so you will be better able to define and structure the objectives of your training sessions;
• the characteristics of football: Communication, Decision making, Executing decisions and Football fitness for you to better overload the different components of football in different sessions during the week;
• the space-time characteristics of decision making and the execution of decisions: 1) position, 2) moment, 3) direction and 4) speed which allows you to analyse football actions in more detail;
• the criteria of a Better Football Action so you will no longer end up in endless subjective discussions about, for example, what is a better pass.
• the characteristics of football at a higher level of play so you know better what gap your team as a whole and your players individually have to bridge to get to this higher level of play;
• training smarter instead of training harder so you will be better able to increase the demands within football exercise to overload your player;
• the football fitness characteristics which will allow you to develop fitness in the context of football instead of developing non-football fitness in non-football exercises.