A wonderful morning spent in the company of Jose Mourinho on the
#ScottishFACoachEd
@UEFA
Pro Licence course. An amazing opportunity for us to ask questions of his career to date, and a big thanks to Jose for all his candour, honesty and insight 🤩
I put this photo on other social media platforms after attending a kids game on Saturday at a festival. For context, the photo doesn’t show how animated (or angry!) these “coaches” got during a game for kids born 2013 (U9s).
Being involved in coach education- what can we do? 👇🏻
“When they come off the pitch…tell them how good they’ve done…and did they enjoy it. End of!”
Simple. Yet so many still shout, bawl, offer inappropriate advice, commentate, shout at referees, etc. Please. Just let them play.
1 year ago we hadn’t yet explored online delivery of our courses ⏩
22 Feb 2021 we delivered:
✅ A & B Licence CPD feedback sessions of
#UnitedCV21
✅ Physical Prep Course
✅ Performance Analysis Course
✅ Level 1 courses
✅ Talent ID Level 2 Pilot
#ScottishFACoachEd
🤯😅
7 year work anniversary with
@ScottishFA
🎉 🏴
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
#ScottishFACoachEd
(Hard to pick only 4 photos 🥴)
Good luck to
@mclarenstu
as he starts a new role today as Head Coach with
@ScottishFA
U16 International squad & a coach mentoring role. Thankfully he’ll still be involved with
#ScottishFACoachEd
where he’s been so heavily involved for the past while. Wish him all the very best!
Delighted to get this announced & released after yrs of hard work in collaboration with
@EdinburghNapier
! Excited to receive our first student cohort & explore how, in turn, they will be able to influence the football coaching workforce in 🏴 in years to come
#ScottishFACoachEd
NEWS | We have teamed-up with
@EdinburghNapier
University to launch the BSc (Hons) Football Coaching, Performance & Development degree.
#ScottishFACoachEd
“Kids between 8 - 11 years of age must just play with their friends & enjoy the game. They should play in their own neighbourhoods with friends, family, classmates, and develop their passion for the game.” If he says so!! 🇪🇸 ⚽️
#UEFAGrassroots
#LetThemPlay
@BaldragonAcad
we are getting behind
@ScotlandNT
on Monday 14 June. Please find below our letter to parents sent today explaining arrangements for the day
Let’s get behind this!!!
🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
UEFA B LICENCE
UEFA A LICENCE
UEFA ELITE YOUTH A LICENCE
UEFA A & ELITE YOUTH A (COMBINED)
Given the popularity of our UEFA Licence courses, and demand for places, we will run extra courses, with initial dates as indicated above, and in graphics, below.
#ScottishFACoachEd
Well done to the
#ScottishFACoachEd
delegation today at the
#UEFAShare
event on Coach Educator Development in Madrid. Excellent opportunity to show “The Scottish Way” to so many other National Associations 🇫🇷 🇱🇹🇨🇭🇺🇦🇪🇸🇷🇸 🏴
1️⃣year ago
#ScottishFACoachEd
set an aim to educate 1000 coaches online.
Little did we know how:
- long the pandemic would last
- many courses would transition to online
- many people would enrol
It’s been a huge success & big thanks to everyone who’s joined us on that journey😊
“My first club was when I was 11. Up until then, I simply played in the street or at school. If not, I would play myself against a wall. Football was my passion and at times the wall was my best friend.”
#UEFAGrassroots
#LetThemPlay
Our new UEFA Pro Licence up and running ✅
First contact block of the course, with three days full of wonderful learning opportunities for all.
Next stop Romania at the end of the month for the UEFA U21 European Championships.
#ScottishFACoachEd
In anticipation of being back on the pitch for
#ScottishFACoachEd
courses, the new
@UEFA
C Licence will mean that anybody working in
#grassrootsfootball
can now become a UEFA-qualified coach! We look forward to returning coach education & development days like below👇🏻
At last 🙌🏻 🦠
Our very first student cohort came together again as we welcomed them back onto the pitch for coaching practice. A unique & amazing collaboration between
@ScottishFA
&
@EdinburghNapier
for our BSc (Hons,) Football Coaching, Performance & Dev’t
#ScottishFACoachEd
Massive well done to all Scottish FA UEFA ‘B’ & ‘A’ Licence candidates during summative assessments
@Oriamscotland
this week. Huge collective effort from all participants & staff. 👏🏻
Quick turnaround & back next week for UEFA ‘B’ Licence coaching practice. 😅
#ScottishFACoachEd
17 March 2020
Notification that all
#ScottishFACoachEd
staff would need to work from home for “foreseeable future” 😩
17 March 2021
So adept at online delivery that there’s a
@UEFA
A and Pro Licence being delivered on the same day, with top end guest speakers 👏🏻
UEFA B LICENCE ASSESSMENTS
Great to have 20 UEFA B Licence candidates with us in Aberdeen completing their practical assessments in person.
#ScottishFACoachEd
UEFA B LICENCE ASSESSMENTS
Another group together for the past 3 days completing their UEFA B Licence summative assessments
@Oriamscotland
Brilliant seeing so many re-engaging with
#ScottishFACoachEd
, continuing their
@UEFA
licence learning journey & travelling to 🏴 to do so
Andre Villas-Boas on why he chose
@ScottishFA
coaching courses:
"The history & quality speaks for itself...So many have been through...we come to Scotland because the level is high. The content & friendly environment makes you want to come back to continue the learning process."
Merry Christmas 🤶 🎅 🎄
A hugely successful year yet again for
@ScottishFA
Coach Ed, despite the constraints of delivery imposed by the pandemic.
Huge thanks to everyone who has engaged with us- from Intro Level to Pro Licence; staff, tutors & guest speakers.
#ScottishFACoachEd
NEW TALENT ID PATHWAY
We’ve just launched the first of our Talent ID courses for booking. The ‘Introduction to Talent ID’ course is now available to book for delivery online week beginning 22nd June.
A 3-hour course that is also CPD accredited 👍🏻
#ScottishFACoachEd
Today we started another
@UEFA
B Licence, with a highest- ever percentage of female coaches at this level on a mainstream
#ScottishFACoachEd
licence course 🙌🏻Apt then, on
#InternationalWomensDay
that 9 female coaches started the course with us 👏🏻
Huge thanks to all these guys- and more not pictured- for all their help, assistance, support and collaborative work over the last month or so. The successful delivery of our
@ScottishFA
@UEFA
licence courses is testament to all their hard work!
#ScottishFACoachEd
Another nod to
#LetThemPlay
Working with children; they want chaos, they want to play games, they want opposition & to challenge themselves in play. Never heard any kid ask “what drills are we doing tonight?”
@stu_arm
says it better than me!! 👇🏻
UEFA JIRA PANEL
Fulfilling a long-term, ambitious goal to now be part of the UEFA Jira Panel. 🤩
Delighted & honoured to be part of this prestigious group; I look forward to working with many good people on the panel, and of course continuing the excellent work we do in Scotland.
NEW
@ScottishFA
@UEFA
C Licence
We are delighted to announce that our UEFA C Licence course has now been launched & available to book.
The course will be delivered in 3️⃣ phases.
For more info on the course, please see here:
#ScottishFACoachEd
Scottish FA Coach Ed at United Soccer Coaches Convention 2022
Huge thanks as always to
@UnitedCoaches
for having us at
#UnitedCV22
An unwavering support and friendship, allowing us to engage with thousands of 🏴🇺🇸 coaches. Looking forward to Philly 2023!!
#ScottishFACoachEd
Delighted to be part of this small group of National Associations who have had ratification to deliver and award the UEFA C Licence. Well done everyone at
#ScottishFACoachEd
who’ve worked so hard to make it possible. 👏🏻 🏴
Graduation of 2017/18
@ScottishFA
@UEFA
Pro Licence Course
@Hampdenpark
last night.
Congratulations to all course graduates (some notable absentees from the photos) & huge thanks to all those that helped on their journey 👨🏻🎓👩🏼🎓🏴⚽️🍾
#ScottishFACoachEd
I seem to get daily texts or contact from parents (of my 6-year old son’s team) along the lines of, “when do they enter a league?”, “when do you start playing games?”. Below excerpt (I think) is spot on from the following blog:
We continue to develop and amend our coach education pathway to meet the demands of the UEFA Coaching Convention and attain best practice. Our latest edition 🤩
#ScottishFACoachEd
😅 42 applicants for our UEFA B Licence course in opening 24hrs!
🤯 133 applicants thus far for our UEFA A Licence
😊 16 applications received for our UEFA Youth B Licence
👏🏻 Thanks for support of our programme and courses
🔜 Be sure to submit applications asap
#ScottishFACoachEd
🗓️2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ Course dates
‼️ UEFA A LICENCE
🆕 Applications being taken now
⛔️ Closing date for app’s: 12th Jan
‼️ UEFA B LICENCE
🆕 Applications open: 5th January
⛔️ Closing date for app’s: 29th Jan
#ScottishFACoachEd
A great sight as we return to getting things back to some kind of normality on the pitch in
#ScottishFACoachEd
This week, we’ve our
@UEFA
#ScottishFABLicence
course coaching practice all week
@Oriamscotland
So good to see everyone back doing what they love 🙌🏻
🏴 Scotland 0-0 Israel (5-3 win on penalties)
🏴
#SCO21s
2-0 Czech Republic
🏴 Scotland 1-0 Slovakia
🏴 San Marino 0-7
#SCO21s
🏴 Scotland 1-0 Czech Republic
It's been a good week to be a Scotland fan.
UEFA GROW AWARDS 2021
The
#ScottishFACoachEd
team have been awarded a prestigious
#UEFAGROW
Award for Creativity and Innovation in Organisational Development for their successful transition and delivery of Coach Education courses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
🆕 UEFA B Licence Coaching Practice
📍Oriam, Edinburgh
⚽️ Another week of coaching practice as we get course candidates back on the pitch after completing most of the theoretical aspects online. Progress 🙌🏻
#ScottishFACoachEd
UEFA A LICENCE- COACHING PRACTICE
Big well done to this group after completing the coaching practice component of their UEFA A Licence; 5 full days
@Oriamscotland
Good luck to everyone as they now complete reflections, assignments & work towards assessment
#ScottishFACoachEd
Looking forward to starting another
@ScottishFA
@UEFA
B Licence today. Lockdown has given us wonderful opportunities to work with superb staff groups and welcome course participants to an online, ‘virtual’ classroom, before we get on the pitch in the future.
#ScottishFACoachEd
Our degree with
@EdinburghNapier
has now been launched & awaiting the first student cohort in September. Really excited not only to help with delivery of the first course, but to see how these students & graduates can effect the game in 🏴 for years to come
#ScottishFACoachEd
SCOTTISH FOOTBALL
VIDEO
The
@ScottishFA
&
@EdinburghNapier
have teamed up to launch Scotland's first undergraduate degree in football coaching, performance & development
SFA Head of Coach Education Greig Paterson & Napier Univeristy's Dr Cedric English explain more...
SCOTTISH FA UEFA A LICENCE 2021
💻 Booking & further info soon
📧 coaching
@scottishfa
.co.uk
📅 Delivery Model:
Phase 1- Online Theory (15 - 19 March)
Phase 2- Coaching Practice (TBC)
Phase 3- Assessments (TBC)
Assignments & tutorials in parallel with above
#ScottishFACoachEd
A fantastic past few months for
#ScottishFACoachEd
with
@ScottishFA
@UEFA
licence delivery:
2 x Physical Prep courses- 128
B Licence Intro- 88
Goalkeeping CPD- 41
B Assessments- 65
A Licence- 74
A Assessments- 55
Pro Licence study visit to
@UEFAUnder21
in 🇮🇹- 22
😅🏴⚽️
Unprecedented day for
#ScottishFACoachEd
hosting
@UnitedCoaches
as they delivered the ‘Director of Coaching’ course
@Oriamscotland
A unique opportunity for 🏴 coaches to learn about the intricacies of working in the 🇺🇸
Looking forward to Day 2 tomorrow 👍🏻
UEFA A LICENCE - COACHING PRACTICE
✅ Another week done as we catch up with coaching practice for those that started their UEFA A Licence in 2020 🦠
🌧 A few of the wettest days on record for
#ScottishFACoachEd
👏🏻 Well done all course participants & staff for seeing it through
A brilliant study trip for our current UEFA Pro Licence cohort. Three very worthwhile and brilliant days in London, learning from and listening to some of the very best in the game. Impossible not take to an awful lot from every single speaker we were so fortunate to hear from 🙏🏻
At 14 we were rivals
At 16; played in same league select team, but went to different pro clubs.
At 20; went to Uni together, and won🏆
At 40+ 🤫, it’s great to catch up with a very close friend in Madrid 🇪🇸
Football is so powerful; a 30+ year relationship is testament to that!
UEFA A LICENCE- ASSESSMENTS
A coming together of many different courses as a result of the pandemic. Each of these coaches has a very different journey to tell; but great to have them all together this week
@Oriamscotland
#ScottishFACoachEd
I’m the first to talk up our game in Scotland, but these images from overnight really sadden. “Mindless idiots”; the most popular phrase to describe those responsible. So many good people working in our game that will counter these actions positively to create further success.
⏪ 11 of the last 12 days on the pitch
😄 Great to see people back on the pitch, and able to deliver in-person once more
✅ UEFA B Licence assessments
✅ UEFA A Licence assessments
✅ UEFA Elite Youth A assessments
✅ UEFA B Licence coaching practice
#ScottishFACoachEd
#SCO
UEFA C LICENCE - PHASE 3
At
@Oriamscotland
this week with first ever delivery of our new in-person coaching practice & assessments for the UEFA C Licence.
@ScottishFA
Player & Coach Development Managers and
@PerformSchools
Head Coaches staffing the course
#ScottishFACoachEd
Huge thanks to everyone who has engaged with
#ScottishFACoachEd
this year, for all your support, patience and collaboration. We've made massive strides and had some monumental achievements this year despite the circumstances. Have a very merry Christmas and best wishes for 2021.
Q&A session with Roberto Martinez this morning
@UEFA
HQ as part of the UEFA Pro Licence Student Exchange. Some fascinating insight into his thoughts & ideology, whilst also hearing of his own development as a coach
#ScottishFACoachEd
We’re keen to continue with our
#ScottishFACoachEd
courses, albeit using alternative delivery models, during the coronavirus shutdown. We’ll continue to get information to those affected by this current situation as best and as soon as possible.
It’s great to see
@UEFA
officially launch the UEFA C Diploma this week. This will now give all
#grassrootsfootball
coaches throughout Europe the opportunity to join a community of over 200,000 UEFA-qualified coaches. We’re proud to play a major part in this at
#ScottishFACoachEd
UEFA B LICENCE
Good to get a scheduled course on the grass, in person, doing coaching practice when it was meant to, for the first time in over two years 😅
The first of 2 x 3-day coaching practice blocks for this group
@Oriamscotland
👍🏻
#ScottishFACoachEd
Another week completed
@Oriamscotland
Still playing catch up with those needing back on the pitch after the pandemic, so was great to see so many attending for the
@ScottishFA
@UEFA
B Licence coaching practice. A superb week, well done everyone 🙌🏻👏🏻
#ScottishFACoachEd
UEFA B LICENCE
UEFA A LICENCE
UEFA ELITE YOUTH A LICENCE
UEFA A & ELITE YOUTH A (COMBINED)
You can now apply for these
@UEFA
coaching licence courses with
@ScottishFA
by completing the application process on
#ScottishFACoachEd
What a treat for 300 coaches being able to spend 2 hours listening to 2 top professional GK coaches in
@Keepingskills
& Nuno Santos. Working at the top end of the game, it was superb to hear their input, & not forgetting
@PackieBonner1
input too!
#ScottishFACoachEd
UEFA A LICENCE - COACHING PRACTICE
Brilliant to welcome 24 of our UEFA A Licence participants to
@Oriamscotland
this week.
Started the course online during lockdown 🦠 and now bringing the theory to practice
#ScottishFACoachEd
Great achievement by the
@acciesfc
players & staff last night in the
@UEFAYouthLeague
to qualify for the next round 👍🏻👏🏻 Doing 🏴 proud in the competition & now face FC Midtylland 🇩🇰. Special well done to their coach
@Stephenclarke30
- put in a huge amount of work 👏🏻
Great turnout this evening for our “Introduction to Goalkeeping Statistics” CPD event 🧤
Big thanks to everyone for attending and
@goalkeeper_com
for delivery 👏🏻
#ScottishFACoachEd
“We’ve broken the back of it now” 😃
Day 3 of 5 completed on the pitch for
#ScottishFABLicence
coaching practice
@Oriamscotland
Just superb to be able to return to getting coaches back on a pitch, and seeing them grow and develop in such a short space of time.
#ScottishFACoachEd
“Why do you take your
@ScottishFA
@UEFA
Elite Youth Licence group to
@slbenfica_en
every year?” is a question I’m often asked. Well, this graphic goes some way to answering that.....
#ScottishFACoachEd
PS our next UEFA Youth Licence starts soon; limited places still available...
Great news that
@MichaelBeale
is heading north to be involved in the Scottish game, and
@RangersFC
A hugely impressive individual who has given his time willingly in the past to several
#ScottishFACoachEd
initiatives and I hope our paths now cross more often
A proud moment for the
@ScottishFA
Coach Education team.
In conjunction with
@UEFA
we will now offer the UEFA Grassroots Leader Award across our Level 1 pathways, encouraging a more skilled workforce for our grassroots game & beyond.
#ScottishFACoachEd
A real achievement by everyone getting this group together. UEFA A participants who were unable to travel to 🏴 & complete coaching practice for the past 2 years eventually gathered
@Oriamscotland
- we now look forward to seeing their transition to assessment.
#ScottishFACoachEd
Delighted to get this announced & released after yrs of hard work in collaboration with
@EdinburghNapier
! Excited to receive our first student cohort & explore how, in turn, they will be able to influence the football coaching workforce in 🏴 in years to come
#ScottishFACoachEd
NEWS |
#EdNapier
and the
@ScottishFA
have teamed-up to launch a degree combining practical experience and qualifications to develop coaching professionals ideally suited to the modern game. ⚽️🏴
Full story 👉🏻
UEFA PRO LICENCE
A few days coaching practice for our
@UEFA
Pro Licence students whilst in Slovakia 🇸🇰 on our
@erasmusplusUK
study trip to the UEFA U19 Championship.
#ScottishFACoachEd
Back
@Oriamscotland
this week for
@UEFA
A & B Licence Assessments.
Good to get back on the pitch and see so many people keen to progress after the past while 🦠
#ScottishFACoachEd
This group today completed the
@ScottishFA
Advanced Childrens Licence course. Well done to each & every one of them- hope to now see them all progress and working with our top players throughout the country (assessments & assignment submissions pending of course! 😉)