Benfica Coerver Elite International Development Program
Match 7 last night was a real challenge against a u19s. The squad mainly made up of 2000s and a few 99s giving away a big age difference, showed real personality, focus and spirit in a game of real drama as the boys hit the woodwork 4 times and had a gaol disallowed. Before some great flowing play and a fantastic goal scored left foot from Liam Kelly.

The final 2016 Easter camp was our first week long camp in Ayrshire, 45 players including many from pro clubs took part in Kilwinning

Coerver® Coaching Scotland has recently delivered guest lectures and practical sessions to the student of three leading Scottish Universities and Colleges.

Coerver® Scotland Director Joe Jones alongside regional Head Coaches James Brash & Chris Crookston delivered 60 minute guest lectures and 90 minute practical sessions to sports and teaching students at the Scottish Rural University College (SRUC), The University of the West of Scotland and Dundee & Angus College.

SRUC Sport and Recreation programme leader Drew Wallace said ‘I thoroughly enjoyed the course and have heard nothing but positive comments from the students.  The content of the course fits in perfectly with what we teach our sports coaching students over the 4 years of their degree. As the course was delivered I could see many links to theories of talent development and motivation that we examine on our course. 

I also found the delivery of the course to be professional, engaging, fun and highly relevant to producing great coaches.  We hope to work with Coerver® lots more in the future’. 

Ewan Peacock from Dundee & Angus College said ‘We are delighted to work with Coerver® Coaching to upskill our students and provide them with knowledge and content to coach within the local community.  Having a unique curriculum allows our students to broaden their knowledge and deliver enhanced coaching sessions’

Joe Jones said ‘We have worked with many education partners in Scotland over the last few years, it was a pleasure for us to be asked to deliver this latest series on lectures and clinics. We share a mutual interest with the Universities and Colleges in developing the future coaches of the game. We look forward to further clinics later in the year’

See some feedback from students below.

• Joe & Chris’s experience and enthusiasm for the Coerver® method shone throughout the session and made it a fun and thoroughly informative experience. The course showed a great insight into what is now becoming a world-wide template for football coaching – Ross Manchip
• I think the course was really worthwhile and enjoyable. It was good as it worked on some very important fundamentals of the game whilst keeping it fun and competitive. As Joe said “coach what you believe”. – Jagdev Singh
• The course was excellent as there was a few practices that I will be using within my sessions. As well as the practices the course was educational with some very interesting statistics that I can again use with my team at the Queen of the South Academy – Stuart Douglas
• The Coerver® course provided great detail about ball mastery and how to incorporate this during a session. The training drills were fun and challenging. This has made me a better coach due to the importance of always having a ball at the players' feet – Liam Anderson
• Thought the course was very enjoyable and really interesting as to why Coerver was set up. Good style of skills and drills for the kids and even adults to do during sessions. Well done all involved. -Craig Reid

For more information on the Universities

Dundee College - https://www.dundeeandangus.ac.uk/

SRUC - http://www.sruc.ac.uk/

UWS - http://www.uws.ac.uk/

The Purpose of the Youth Diploma 1 Course is to give attendees, whether you are a professional academy coach, junior coach, teacher or parent a greater understanding of how to plan & deliver more effective coaching sessions.

This will be made possible by learning to use the Coerver® Coaching Session Planner which will provide a quick & easy solution for all attendees to construct weekly, monthly or even season long programmes using proven, high quality drills and games from Coerver® Coaching.

Dates: Saturday 11^th and Sunday 12^th June 2016
Venue: Rangers FC, Murray Park, Auchenhowie Road, Milngavie, Glasgow G62 6EJ
Time: 9:30am-16:30pm
Cost: £199

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Intro & YD1 Course Instructor: Gordon Craig

Gordon Craig (Coerver® Scotland and Portugal Director)

Gordon has been involved in football as a coach and consultant for over 25 years and has travelled the globe working with top players and clubs. Gordon has become renowned as a top coach and presenter when it comes to youth player development.

• Coerver® Technical Coaching Consultant at Rangers FC
• Consultant at Sport Lisboa e Benfica
• National Scottish FA Elite performance Coach 2012-2015
• Assistant Coach SFA National team youth coaches 2012-2015
• The Director of Coerver® Coaching Scotland and Portugal
• Member of the Coerver® European Technical Committee.

Coerver® Coaching are delighted to announce details for our forthcoming Coerver® Coach Education courses in Scotland during 2016.

Our coaching pathway consists of three courses which are made up of the Coerver® Intro (1 day), Coerver® Youth Diploma 1 (2 days) and Coerver® Youth Diploma 2 (2 days) respectively.

Our courses take place at top professional club facilities at the Rangers FC training complex in Glasgow and on the stadium pitch at Livingston FC.

Coerver® Scotland Director Joe Jones said “Interest in our Coach Education courses is always high. We are looking forward to sharing 32 years of Coerver® Global experience. Over many years, we have had attendees from all levels of the game from grassroots coaches through professional managers & coaches, our coaching courses offer an insight into developing positive, attack minded, creative competitive players & teams.

We look forward to welcoming coaches to the outstanding facilities at Rangers FC and Livingston FC”