Coaching Training 2017

The Coaching Training is an important part of the philosophy of PlayOnside Here we can equip local youth with the knowledge about how to use football as an educational tool.

One of the main priorities of PlayOnside is our Capacity Building Program. The objective is to give young local leaders who show passion, initiative and interest, the opportunity to develop their football coaching skills. These courses are developed together with our partners at Premier Football Academy –Bangkok and International Football Education - two long-term partners of PlayOnside.

The goal is to promote good local rolemodels who can take responsibility and become a coach and a leader for a team. We put a lot of focus on the social role of the coach A football coach does more than just teaching the children how to kick the ball

He or she has to be a team builder, a motivator and an excellent communicator The coach has to be a person the children can come to with their concerns, and function as a bridge between the school and the parents. Every child is different and every child has individual needs for comfort, encouragement and feedback. For PlayOnside the “soft skills” of the coach are of greater importance than the theoretical football coaching skills

In the 2017, we arranged two different Capacity Building Programs. The first course we did by ourselves, while the second one was a part of the annual Esperança football camp, a joint event with our partners from the

Bangkok-based football program

Premier Football Academy (PFA).

PFA is a professional football academy focusing on development of talented Thai youth. Their approach differs a bit from ours, as we do not have football skills improvement as our main objective. Nevertheless, it was very useful for PlayOnside our local coaches, and our potential new colleagues to get professional feedback on the technical and tactical aspects of coaching football.

28 young local leaders completed the courses, and this is an important part of the capacity building program. By equipping the coaches with the necessary tools to hold quality football training, these youngsters will grow as role models and leaders in their local communities in the years to come

Peace Ball Action – Thailand (PBA) has been a long-term partner of PlayOnside. The Japanese professional football player, Daiki Higuchi, runs PBA. Daiki’s passion for football and for sport as a catalyst for development has brought him to Mae Sot every year for three years, to visit PlayOnside, and our partners at Help Without Frontiers to arrange the PBA Tournament.

It is always a pleasure to have PBA visiting In 2017, we decided to do things a bit differently than previous years. Instead of a big tournament, we held a two-day integration clinic, for teams and schools who are rather new in the