One-year Online Mentorship 2022 (level 1)

Course description

In the subjective football world, many coaches just copy the champion which means that they will always be behind the leaders in their field. This one-year online Mentorship will help you to stay ahead of the game by becoming an independent football thinker who does no longer rely on others to develop new ideas and unique solutions.

Just imagine a football coach wanting to learn HOW to best coach football players. He browses the Internet and stumbles upon hundreds of online courses about management and coaching. The overlap between the different courses is minimal, yet they all promise you the ‘holy grail’ of coaching. How on earth is a football coach supposed to separate relevant from irrelevant information in this jungle of flavours of the month? HOW to coach football, depends on all kinds of external factors. Does the coach work with women or men, with adults or children, amateurs or professionals, does his team train two, three or more times a week, does he have access to a whole, half or quarter pitch to practice, etc.? It is, therefore, very difficult for outsiders to determine HOW a coach should manage a specific situation.

Many courses present concepts based on the differences between people in, for example, personality and culture. In this online Mentorship, Raymond Verheijen has taken not the differences but the similarities between people as the starting point. All players and coaches have to deal with the same game characteristics (WHAT) and evolutionary principles (HOW). Based on these similarities, universal coaching tools will be presented that give direction to HOW to coach football independent of subjective opinions, preferences, beliefs or experiences.

The One-year online Mentorship will start on September 1, 2022, and will be concluded on August 31, 2023.

Course procedure

On the 1st of each month, a 2-3 hour course on one of the 12 topics will be available for the entire month.

Also, a pre-recorded 2-3 hour FAQ session will be available during which the most frequently asked questions will be answered by Raymond Verheijen. This session will also be available until the end of the month.

You can watch the clips in your own tempo and at your own convenience as long as you have finished watching before the monthly Q&A.

Certification

After successfully completing the one-year Online Mentorship, delegates will receive an official FCE certificate.

Learning outcomes

This is what you will get out of the twelve 2-hour courses, twelve 2-hour Q&A’s and over 30 hours of extra online content:

• Football theory course: a deeper understanding of the WHAT of coaching football. Coaching tools to develop the essence of the game.
• Football coaching theory course: a deeper understanding of the fundamentals HOW to coach football. The most effective coaching tools to help your players improve.
• Football tactics course: a deeper understanding of the meaning of tactical principles in football. Coaching tools to improve the (non-)verbal communication between your players.
• Game insight course: a deeper understanding of the decision-making process of players and the difference between tactics (team) and game insight (player).
• Football technique course: a deeper understanding of the difference between executing a decision (football) and executing a technique (gymnastics).
• Football fitness course: a deeper understanding of the difference between football fitness (fitness in football context) and non-football fitness (fitness outside football context).
• The Men’s and women’s game course: a deeper understanding of the fact that women and men are playing the same sport. How to anticipate the specific characteristics in both the men’s and women’s game when applying (HOW) the universal characteristics of football (WHAT).
• Football periodisation course: how to plan football training from day to day and week to week to optimise the training effect of every session.
• Youth academy periodisation course: how to apply the principles of football periodisation with youth players before and after the growth spurt.
• Goalkeeper coaching course: how to also develop the goalkeeper’s communication and decision making rather than just the technical execution within goalkeeper actions.
• Football strength training course: how to align strength training exercises with the development of football actions.
• Football rehab training course: how to rehabilitate players as an integral part of the team periodisation rather than based on an isolated training program separate from the team.