The LMA School of Football Management Course 2: 'Evaluating Performance' - in conjunction with Prozone Sports
Since the launch of this course in January 2012 over 150 coaches have enrolled including over 40 Premier League and Football League Managers. In addition the Scottish FA Football Development Department has purchased places for all members of its staff for this course.Some coaches have already begun to provide feedback on this course
Whilst this course has been developed in conjunction with Prozone Sports, students do not require any specialist equipment to gain from this course
The course is designed for coaches who want to improve their evaluation skills even if the only equipment they have is paper and pencil!
The price of the course is £199 (including all sales taxes) to enroll click on the ‘Buy Now’ Button below to pay using your credit/debit card.
The LMA School of Football Management in conjunction with Prozone Sports Ltd. is have launched an e-learning course to assist coaches evaluate player and team performance. The course is intended for coaches who work (or aspire to work) with professional, semi-professional, elite youth or College players
- WHAT ARE THE EXPECTED COURSE OUTCOMES?
On completion of the course learners will be have improved their knowledge and understanding with regard to the following aspects of Performance Evaluation:
WHAT to evaluate in match performance, HOW to evaluate match performance and HOW to USE Data and Information
WHAT to evaluate in match performance
- Why use Evaluation? Coaches have plans for aspects such as games, training, talent identification and scouting. Are these based on evaluation of match performance?
- Establishing Objectives for your team
- How to decide how you want your team to play to meet these objectives
- How to develop Key Performance Indicators which reflect this style of play
- How to identify Attacking and Defending Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for open play and for set plays which reflects your preferred style of play
View below the views of Sam Allardyce, Dario Gradi and Roy Hodgson on the benefits of evaluation
HOW to evaluate match performance
- Techniques to evaluate team performance
- Developing Individual Job Description for each position
- Techniques to evaluate the individual performance and measure progress
- How to evaluate young players –sharing good practice and accepted bench marks
- Involving players in Evaluation
See the videos below from Gavin Fleig (Manchester City) and Chris Carling (FC Lille) about some of the methods used in evaluation
HOW to USE Data and Information
- How to ‘makes sense of the data’ :gathering and organizing data in order to recognize patterns and detect trends
- Developing Bench Marks for the team as a whole and for individual players
- How to most effectively provide feedback of evaluation to players
- How to shape practice as a result of evaluation
- How to evaluate the performance of forthcoming opponents
- How to evaluate the performance of potential players you may recruit for your team
- How to develop an Evaluation Action Plan to reflect your Evaluation Strategy
- How to evaluate your training programme, your performance as a coach and provide reports of evaluation to those who employ you!
Watch below clips from Gareth Southgate on scouting and from Marcel van der Net on the truly innovative evaluation process employed by one of the most successful Youth Academies in Holland at Sparta Rotterdam
2. WHAT ARE THE OTHER COURSE BENEFITS?
- The course is designed for ACTIVE LEARNERS committed to their own Continued Professional Development who can organize their own self-directed learning in a flexible format via the internet: the course will take at least 15 hours to complete but learners can go in and out of the course for any length of time
- Access to exclusive Prozone data from Top Professional, Youth Academy, and US College Soccer including team and positional bench marks
- A Comprehensive Research Archive on all aspects relating to Performance Evaluation in Association Football-articles, links, research papers etc.
- Over 60 Downloadable Data Factsheets including the most commonly used ‘Key Performance Indicators’
- The opportunity to network with other coaches in the in the world’s largest online community of soccer coaches and analysts involved in high level soccer.
- 6 months access to the course and ongoing access to the Course Graduates section of the website on successful completion of the Course
- LMA School of Football Management Certificate on successful completion of the Course
Billy Beane, General Manager Oakland A's Baseball team endorsed Prozone data :
"The depth and accuracy of the Prozone data provides us with the tools to identify the key performance indicators within soccer and ultimately make better informed decisions around player profiling and recruitment."
3. HOW IS THE COURSE DELIVERED?
- Through 30 Modules with over 300 Video Interview clips from 15 respected experts including LMA Managers, International Managers, Directors of Coaching Directors of European Youth Academies and respected Performance Analysts from leading UEFA Champions League Clubs (see list below)
- Individual Assignments and Collaborative Activities
- Two 60 minute Webinars
- Interactive Tasks which include the following:
- Analyzing a team
- Analyzing specific players
- Constructing a Positional Profile
- Scouting a Player
- Scouting opposing teams
- Evaluating Training Sessions
What is the LMA?
The League Managers Association (LMA) is the representative body of football managers ( past and present ) from the top 92 Clubs in the English Barclays Premier League and the Coca Cola Football League. See this link for more details of the LMA (http://www.leaguemanagers.com/index.html )
LMA School of Football Management E-Learning Courses are recognized by UEFA and many National Football Associations as pathways to retain UEFA Coaching Awards
(*) The list of Interviewees for this course includes the following:
Past and Present Members of the LMA
• Sam Allardyce,Manager of West Ham Utd.FC
• Dario Gradi, Crewe Alexander FC
• Roy Hodgson, England National Team Manager
• Hope Powell, Head Coach England Women’s Team
• Les Reed, Head of Southampton FC Football Development and Support Centre
• Gareth Southgate, Head of Elite Development at the English FA and former Manager of Middlesbrough FC
• Howard Wilkinson, LMA Chairman
Analysts
• Chris Carling, Analyst for OSC Lille, Ligue 1,France ( winners of the French League and Cup Double in 2011) Co-author Handbook for Soccer Match Analysis
• Gavin Fleig: Head of Performance Analysis, Manchester City FC and former Head of Performance Analysis at Bolton Wanderers FC and Newcastle United
• Barry McNeil: Managing Director, Prozone Sports Ltd
• Kim Stafford: Senior Analyst Prozone Sports.
Directors of Youth Academies, Youth Coaches, International Coaches and Consultants
• John Bilton, Head of Fernabache Youth Academy, Istanbul Turkey
• Marcel van der Net, Sparta Rotterdam Youth Academy, Holland
• Alistair Smith, Learning Consultant, FA Learning
“Differentiate yourself and your coaching programme by utilizing practical, relevant evaluation techniques with your players “
The price of the course is £199 (including all sales taxes) to enroll click on the ‘Buy Now’ Button below to pay using your credit/debit card.
Once you have paid you will receive an e-mail from Robin Russell (RRussell@sportspath.com) within 48 hours –more likely within 24 hours – with all the login details you need to start the course
