Make Smarter Coaching Decisions – With Less Trial and Error
As a football coach, you are constantly solving problems – from organisational challenges and staff dynamics to team performance and individual player development. Yet in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable football environment, relying solely on intuition often feels like guesswork.
This 1-day course is designed to help you become a more structured and effective decision-maker. You will learn how to replace trial-and-error approaches with more purposeful decisions based on 35 universal coaching principles developed by Louis van Gaal, the most successful coach in Dutch football history.
Over the past five years, Raymond Verheijen collaborated with van Gaal in a series of 20 in-depth, 3-hour conversations to analyse and theorise the methods behind his success. The result: 35 objective and universally applicable coaching principles that every coach can use at any level, in any coaching situation.
These principles are categorised into six areas:
1. Coach
2. Organisation
3. Staff
4. Squad
5. Team
6. Player
During the course, Raymond Verheijen will present each principle with clear, real-world examples from daily coaching practice, helping you connect theory to action immediately.
Location
Aldershot Town Football Club
The EBB Stadium
The High Street
Aldershot
Hampshire GU11 1TW
UK
Course Program – Wednesday October 15, 2025
08:00 – 09:30am Coaching Principles to develop an ORGANISATION
09:30 – 10:00am Coffee break
10:00 – 11:30am Coaching Principles to develop a STAFF
11:30 – 12:30pm Lunch break
12:30 – 02:00pm Coaching Principles to develop a SQUAD/TEAM
02:00 – 02:30pm Coffee break
02:30 – 04:00pm Coaching Principles to develop a PLAYER
Delegate Fee
Delegate fee: €169 (£145)
Coaches who register with a group of three coaches or more will receive a 20% group discount.
If you would like to take advantage of this group discount, please apply the following coupon code: ALDGROUP25
If you have any further questions, you can send an email to: info@fcevolution.com
