Professional Diploma in Football Coach
In this program, you will learn to identify the key components of FC Barcelona’s game idea; these are the foundation for our trademark style which is used by our first division football team as well as at the youth football teams. The continuous progress in the development and evolution of tactical analysis in football makes study and training in this field of work permanent. The work proposals are increasingly broad for analysts, which allows them to take work roles in specific topics of analysis. For this reason, we will delve into the specific assessment of the goal-kicks phase; the analysis of set pieces in order to optimise them to the maximum and, in this way, gain a competitive advantage over our opponents; the analysis of the most common high pressure situations in a football match, offering the tools for a better understanding of this phase of the game; finally, we will approach the observation methodology used at FC Barcelona focussed on Youth Football categories.
- Category: Football Coaching
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 10 months
- Price: 1150 EUR
Official courses from Barça Innovation Hub, FC Barcelona's educational arm, with experts who have worked inside the club. Earn an accredited certificate issued by the hub, available across the Middle East and North Africa through Champions Hub, its official partner for the fifth year.
What you will learn
- Implement the tools, methods, and strategies in relation to tactical analysis in football, providing specific skills to satisfy the demand for specific roles by professional clubs.
- Identify the parameters and tactical elements of the start phase of the game to select, organize, and transmit essential information effectively using technological tools.
- Understand the importance of ABP (Actions by Players) in current football and acquire resources and criteria to develop analysis in this area.
- Apply the most relevant theoretical and practical content for analyzing the high-pressure phase in football, enabling identification and recognition of various high-pressure situations and proposing training tasks.
- Learn a new observation methodology focused on Formative Football based on your own team, covering training sessions to matches.
Course content
- Module 1: The basics of our style of play
- The science behind Barça Football
- The elements involved
- The defining concepts of Barça Football
- The game as a process
- Module 2: What to train
- Optimizing training
- Cognitive elements of the player
- Group elements of the team
- The phases of play
- Module 3: How to train it
- Train-optimize
- The training session
- Training specific to Barça Football I
- Training specific to Barça Football II
- Module 4: Pedagogical Exchange with the Player: The Role of the Coach-Trainer in the Learning Process
- Module 1. Critical Thinking and Methodological Context Where do we come from and where are we going? Understand what is the ultimate goal of the methodology and how to integrate all the existing elements in the learning context.
- Module 2. The Coach's Learning Why do the coaches see what they see? Understand how their behaviours emerge and how to get in tune with the team's context.
- Module 3. Coach-Player Interaction How to optimise the exchange of information and have a greater impact on the learning process? Understand the environmental conditions through which the player’s naturalised behaviours are facilitated and generated.
- Module 4. Pedagogical Exchange with the Player. Learning Strategies and Atmosphere.
- Module 5: Pedagogical exchange with the player: video feedback in the continuum of motor practice
- Module 1. Observational learning how to give feedback? Understand what differential aspects are added in the coach's work when combining visual feedback with physical practice.
- Module 2. Training practices. Where to give the feedback? Pay attention as a coach to the resulting effect on the player of the relationship between the practice context and the intervention style.
- Module 3. Exchange with the player through observational learning. Anticipate and concrete multimodal extrinsic information to enhance the motor learning process.
- Module 4. The visual feedback on video. Why give video-feedback? Alter the viewing speed to specify the interaction.
- Module 6: Pedagogical exchange with the player: the design of the Preferential Simulation Situations (PSS) in relation to the preference of didactic content
- Module 1. Coordinative Preference PSSs
- Module 2. Cognitive Preference PSSs
- Module 3. Contextual Preference PSSs
- Module 4. Cross-sectional parameters: introduction to variability and oriented or exploratory planning
- Module 7: Analysis of the start phase of the game
- Definition and evolution of the start phase and understanding of the general analysis criteria
- Study of the structural elements of the start phase
- Study of the dynamic elements of the start phase
- Statistical analysis, selection and presentation of information
- Module 8: Set piece analysis
- The importance of SPs and introduction to their analysis
- Defensive SPs Analysis
- Offensive SPs Analysis
- Methodological trends in SP training