Coach & Parent Education
- Les Howie
The English FA believe, (as do I), that the time is now to change how football is ran at youth and grassroots level. I've mentioned him before but Nick Levett, the FA's national development manager for youth football and mini-soccer has just about finished his mammoth tour of the country, putting forward plans the FA believe will change the game forever and for the better.
Having this week been to visit a club for 3 evenings in Greater London to see coaching methods and behaviour, the changes the FA have in mind can not come sooner enough. But it's not just the 'format' children play their football, it's the coaches themselves who to me just don't understand how to teach the game. What I saw was children not 'learning how' to play football but being 'told how' to play it - A HUGE DIFFERENCE!
The FA have the resources for coaches to educate themselves with better methods and game knowledge but it's a MASSIVE challenge to get coaches to actually want to do it.
Being the Football Development Officer (F.D.O) at my club I, like probably many other F.D.O's, will find it a huge task to change and win "hearts and minds" of coaches and parents alike. It will be a long road but one worth walking down.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/it-is-not-playstation-for-dads-fas-grassroots-plan-for-richer-england-future-2252321.html
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