Football Coaches - Great training opportunity

The Coaching Disabled Footballers Course will be taking place in Oxfordshire in March 2009. This course is designed to give football coaches and teacher’s ideas and practices for the inclusion of disabled players in football sessions within mainstream or impairment specific sessions.

Dates: 18th & 25th March 2009

Times: 18.30 - 21.30

Cost: £20

The course is six hours and covers both theory and practical elements, by the end of the workshop each participant should be able to meet the following outcomes:

• Apply and extend your existing coaching skills and experience, meet the needs of players with a range of impairments.

• Establish basic communication skills for coaching disabled footballers.

• Use appropriate terminology

• Identify appropriate safety and medical considerations

• Plan a wide range of coaching sessions for disabled footballers

• Using the Inclusion Spectrum, plan your coaching sessions to include disabled players or provide alternative appropriate opportunities

• Understand the player pathways available for disabled players including the appropriate structure for competition

You must hold a valid level 1 coaching certificate or higher.

To book on the course and for more information, please contact Lisa Brooks at the Oxfordshire FA on lisa.brooks@oxfordshire.com or 01993 894403 or follow the link to teh Oxfordshire FA Website.