football coach
Football coaches train amateur or professional football teams of either youths or adults. Football coaches develop and execute training plans and improve or maintain their players physical condition, football technique and tactical abilities. They prepare their team for competitions and choose the line-up and tactics for a game. During a game coaches may give instructions from the sidelines and are in charge of substituting players.
Also called: soccer coach, association football coach, football instructor, football team trainer, football trainer, football team coach, football manager, football team instructor
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- essential skills
- 16
- optional skills
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- related roles
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Where you can go from here
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Essential skills
16- adapt teaching to student's capabilities
- adapt teaching to target group
- apply teaching strategies
- assess performance in sport events
- coach during a sports competition
- demonstrate when teaching
- develop a coaching style
- execute sports training programme
- exercise sports
- football
- give constructive feedback
- instruct in sport
- motivate in sports
- organise training
- plan sports instruction programme
- select tactics for a football match
Optional skills
16- adjust sporting equipment
- apply latest sport science findings
- assess students
- contribute to the development of a sporting estate
- develop sports programmes
- features of sporting equipment
- identify talent
- inflate sport balls
- manage athletes
- manage student relationships
- provide feedback to performers
- sport and exercise medicine
- sport psychology
- sports ethics
- sports nutrition
- teamwork principles
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