Aims

The student is able:

• To develop a short- and long-term planning for the training of technical, tactical and physical skills of elite youth players based on the vision of a youth academy.
• To guide and adapt the training process in the context of a football specific development plan.
• To analyse and improve the football-specific technical, tactical and physical skills of players via targeted training exercises.
• To collect, process and translate new domain-specific knowledge to the coaching of youth players.

Via this OPO, the student:

• Can receive a Coaching Licence Instructor B or a Coaching License B from the Flemish Trainer School.
• Meets guest professors and becomes familiarised with self-study and peer instruction (mentors from the master programme)
• Becomes familiarised with the use of different technologies such as test equipment and presentation- or analysis software.

Previous knowledge

Prerequisites credit contract/Prerequisites for students who are not registrered for the program bachelor of Physical Education and Movement Sciences/Master of Movement and Sports Sciences, but wish to include the course as a component of choice in their program:
Because of educational, organisational and safety aspects, an admission is required. This involves an individual application with indication of competences and motivation. Contact: FaBeR Helpdesk

Previous knowledge
Apart from prerequisites for bachelor programmes within the group 'Biomedische Wetenschappen' at KULeuven, the following specific prerequisites apply as well.

Knowledge
Students are familiar with the basic concepts of training education
- they can explain the factors determining the realisation of a successful training process
- they can indicate that the training of sporting skills requires a 'global approach' which involves physical, technical and tactical elements but also incorporates affective and psychosocial elements.

Skills
Students have acquired elementary, technical/tactical skills in football during interactive physical activities.
Students have experience as players in a club and/or as youth coach for 6-14-year-olds.

Attitude
They are interested in football and follow the media

Order of Enrolment

You can only take this course if you have to acquire no more than 162 credits to obtain your degree.

Mixed prerequisite:
You may only take this course if you comply with the prerequisites. Prerequisites can be strict or flexible, or can imply simultaneity. A degree level can be also be a prerequisite.
Explanation:
STRICT: You may only take this course if you have passed or applied tolerance for the courses for which this condition is set.
FLEXIBLE: You may only take this course if you have previously taken the courses for which this condition is set.
SIMULTANEOUS: You may only take this course if you also take the courses for which this condition is set (or have taken them previously).
DEGREE: You may only take this course if you have obtained this degree level.


FLEXIBLE(L02B8B) AND FLEXIBLE(L04B1B) AND SIMULTANEOUS(L00B3C) AND SIMULTANEOUS(L05O0A)

The codes of the course units mentioned above correspond to the following course descriptions:
L02B8B : Interactive Movement Activities I
L04B1B : Interactive Movement Activities II
L00B3C : Theories of Exercise Training Part 1
L05O0A : Teaching Methodology in Physical Education: Introduction and Microteaching

This course unit is a prerequisite for taking the following course units:
L04D7B : Internship: Football

Is included in these courses of study

• Bachelor of Physical Education and Movement Sciences (Abridged Programme) (Leuven) 92 ects.
• Bachelor of Physical Education and Movement Sciences (Leuven) 180 ects.
• Preparatory Programme: Master of Movement and Sports Sciences (Leuven) 106 ects.
• Bridging Programme: Master of Teaching in Physical Education (Leuven) (Study Path after ‘Bachelor of Teaching in Physical Education with Movement Recreation') 83 ects.
• Bridging Programme: Master of Teaching in Physical Education (Leuven) (Study Path after ‘Bachelor of Teaching in Physical Education without Movement Recreation') 83 ects.
• Preparatory Programma: Master of Teaching in Physical Education (Leuven) 115 ects.