>>16668638>muh sunny weatherLiterally the biggest lie there is. UEFA certified youth coach here, I've gone through the ladder having never been a footballer myself so I know all the shit and now work in a gold-star PZPN certified academy.
To put it bluntly - it's all on its head. Starting from the very grassroots level, the coaching courses, the practice, football-conferences, the footballing 'educators' are all fucking trash. Most of the time you're told absolute outdated shit by old have beens who happen to be friends of the people in power or who have been, rightfully so, long forgotten and just need any gig to get by. To give you an example: during the last course (last year), we've had like 4 hours of IT classes during one of our convention. It was conducted by a 70+ year old ex coach who had absolutely no idea how computers work and those 4 hours revolved around, literally, logging into PZPN platform and changing your profile picture. Homework was to copy a football macrocycle (stolen from the internet) to your Excel file. That's it. Nothing on video analysis, tools used in football training, performance measurements etc. Course took approximately around half a year and after that shit, you get your badge/loicence (naturally delayed by a month or two because that's the norm). There's no chance in hell to learn anything there about 90% of the time and some of the practices that we've had we'd be scorned by the educators for, for example, having our arms crossed or having our hands behind our back when conducting training sessions. I could go on for hours which only shows how broken the coaches coaching system is.
Working for a PZPN certified academy is a lot of fun too. The amount of absurd requirements that need to be met otherwise you're thrown out of the programme is beyond retarded. The biggest problem though is the lack of continuity of any sort in regards to coaching vision. 1/2
