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Football Coaching F.A. Level 2 Day one

Today I started a 6 day Level 2 football coaching course, with Alan Walker, Lead Tutor of Kent FA. There were 28 candidates with various experiences of coaching football. The ages ranged from 16 – to mid 50’s and there were two ladies on the course.

To develop a team spirit and for the soccer coaches to get to know each other, we started the practical content of the course, with a fun warm up game that all 26 coaches participated in. This also allowed Alan and myself to take a look at their playing ability. As you can imagine, the playing levels were very mixed, with a couple of professionals and non league players, to middle aged men who hadn’t kicked a ball in anger for more than ten years and many who seemed to have their boots on the wrong feet!!

The warm up game, was played on a full size pitch, with all 26 players and 6 balls. The idea was that the players had to pass and move, using all the players, the 8 balls and the full pitch. Below is a cut down version of the warm up game, using 12 players and 3 balls.

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