Expert in Youth Football Planning
Planning in football — from understanding the game to organising training content, across the player’s development stages.
An introductory coaching-education webinar with Pol Deulonder, Ekkono Coaches Academy — the guiding principles that decide what a coach trains, in which order and why, across the player’s development stages from U6 to U19: content blocks, planning criteria, ready-to-adapt concept schedules and applied training examples.
Host: Pol Deulonder — Head of Coaching · Ekkono Coaches Academy
Topics: Planning Criteria · Content Blocks · Age Adaptation
Planning in football is a genuinely complex process with very few absolute truths, and the usual result is improvisation about what gets trained — a real risk in the earliest stages of a player’s development. Pol Deulonder offers the alternative: a set of guiding principles, drawn from the reality of coaches across different stages and football cultures, for organising the ideas you work on with players — which comes first, which comes later, and why.
Key points
- A full inventory of training content and the concepts inside each block, ordered by age stage.
- The criteria that decide the order and timing of content within one season and across the years.
- Proposed plans and concept schedules handed to coaches as an editable reference, not a closed template.
- Applied examples: sample training weeks and drills from each stage.