FA Level 1

Football Association Youth Award is a groundbreaking new coaching course designed to help football coaches understand as much about their players as they understand about the game.

Rob Green talks about his goalkeeping coaches. Goalkeepers need coaches with specific goalkeeping knowledge to help them develop. Take a goalkeeping coaching course with the Football Association.

One size doesn't fit all when it comes to football training practices. Each individual player is of different ability, size, and physicality and has different needs. Fabio Capello talks about how a good football coach tailors practice sessions to suit players with varying abilities and skill. The Football Association Youth coaching Award helps football coaches to understand these needs and meet them.

Fabio and Ashley Cole talk about creating the correct football coaching environment for young players to learn. Players must feel safe, motivated, happy and free to express themselves. This is down to the football coach. Learn more with The FA Youth Award coaching course.

Do you remember your first football coach? James Milner, Ashley Cole and Fabio Capello talk about how their first football coaches and how these early coaching experiences helped mould and influence them as players. England needs trained youth football coaches working in grass roots football. Football coaches can learn more by taking coaching courses with the Football Association.

Who is the best creative player? A number of England players, such as Ashley Cole and Michael Carrick talk about how football is changing and players are becoming quicker and more creative. A leading England football coach explains that as the game has changed, players need to be able to be able to retain possession, be able to pass quickly and effectively over a range of distances, but particularly over short distances. As a result, football coaches need to understand how to encourage young players to think creatively. The Football Association Youth Award coaching course trains coaches to do this.

James Milner talks about how he has grown up playing football and how young football players should be coached differently to adults. Young players think differently and learn differently. A good football coach understands this and coaches players in a way that is suitable for the age, ability and needs of the players. The Football Association Youth Award coaching course helps train football coaches to do this.

This is the fifth part of the topic that I presented at the recent Football Coaching in Porto, Portugal. This involves progressions and challenges when coaching players.