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Coaching Disabled Footballers Course (Level 1)

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The Coaching Disabled Footballers (CDF) course is designed to give football coaches and teacher’s ideas and practices for the inclusion of disabled players in football sessions within mainstream or impairment specific sessions.

Huntingdonshire Football Association will be running a course on Sunday 9th November 2008

Disability Football is embedded in the Football Associations national development plan and as a result the expectation of disabled players has risen accordingly. England disability teams sit high in the world rankings and an increasing number of disabled players want the opportunity to play at the highest level.

The course is open to coaches who have a minimum of a Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Football qualification.

The course is six hours and covers both theory and practical elements, by the end of the workshop each participant should be able to met the following outcomes:

  • Apply and extend your existing coaching skills and experience, meet the needs of players with a range of impairments
  • Establish basic communication skills for coaching disabled footballers
  • Use appropriate terminology
  • Identify appropriate safety and medical considerations
  • Plan a wide range of coaching sessions for disabled footballers
  • Using the Inclusion Spectrum, plan your coaching sessions to include disabled players or provide alternative appropriate opportunities
  • Understand the player pathways available for disabled players including the appropriate structure for competition

Course Details:

Venue – TBA within Huntingdon
Date – Sunday 9th November 2008
Time – 10.00am - 4.00pm
Course Fee – £20 (£15 if candidate is from a Charter Standard Club) This course is subsidised by the County Sports Partnership

 

For more details regarding this course please contact Andy Coles on 01480 447486 or email: andy.coles@huntsfa.com or download the booking form to the right of this page.

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