Sport & Leisure Opportunity: Football coach

Football Coach Current Vacancies

2009-01-16:

There are also be opportunities for coaches to develop their skills with further training into more specialist areas like international coaching, performance coaching, goalkeeping coaching and psychology.
Football coaches develop the knowledge, techniques, understanding and motivation of groups or individuals through planned training sessions and programmes; and work with community football coaches with clubs, schools and the local authority.
Football coaches who work with different teams or players have to be present at training sessions and competitions, resulting in long and often unsociable working hours.
Outside football coaches will be required to work in all weather conditions.
There are opportunities for coaches in senior competitive football to progress from club to club.
Many coaches work part-time in a voluntary capacity, and often this is the most common entry point for full time coaches.
Sport in England is developing a community sports coach programme that has set targets for the number of qualified coaches that it requires over the next few years.
Some coaches working with young people may gain relevant qualifications and move into sports development or youth work. Professional League-Premiership coaches will earn between an estimated 25,000 and 250,000 depending on the role of the community football coach and the level of the club. (Permalink)