School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Advanced Football Coaching Strategies and Skills
  • Unit Code

    SPS3109
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Fadi Yousef MA'AYAH

Description

This unit investigates advanced football coaching strategies and skills for players at the senior, semi professional and elite levels. The focal point is the planning and execution of training programs to enhance elite players technical and tactical performance.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Use international coaching methods to plan strategies which suit the needs of elite players.
  2. Implement a match day routine.
  3. Formulate training programs which improve players' positional play and game formations.
  4. Demonstrate the game sense approach.
  5. Apply principles of zone play at the elite level.
  6. Design an overall player assessment process.
  7. Implement high level offensive and defensive strategies.

Unit Content

  1. The coaching establishment and building a successful culture.
  2. Match day administration.
  3. Football coaching assessment.
  4. Football coaching planning.
  5. Coaching defensive and attacking advanced football tactics.
  6. Coaching defensive and attacking advanced skills and techniques.
  7. Positional play and multiple team formations.
  8. Fitness and conditioning for advanced, senior and semi professional football players.
  9. Game sense approach to develop awareness of space, time and orientation.
  10. Advanced small sided games to enhance players tactical maturity.
  11. Coaching the principles of zone play.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars and performance laboratories.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformancePractical exercise60%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Australia., F. F. (2013). The national football curriculum: The roadmap to international success. Sydney, NSW: FFA.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Advanced Football Coaching Strategies and Skills
  • Unit Code

    SPS3109
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Fadi Yousef MA'AYAH

Description

This unit investigates advanced football coaching strategies and skills for players at the senior, semi professional and elite levels. The focal point is the planning and execution of training programs to enhance elite players technical and tactical performance.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Use international coaching methods to plan strategies which suit the needs of elite players.
  2. Implement a match day routine.
  3. Formulate training programs which improve players' positional play and game formations.
  4. Demonstrate the game sense approach.
  5. Apply principles of zone play at the elite level.
  6. Design an overall player assessment process.
  7. Implement high level offensive and defensive strategies.

Unit Content

  1. The coaching establishment and building a successful culture.
  2. Match day administration.
  3. Football coaching assessment.
  4. Football coaching planning.
  5. Coaching defensive and attacking advanced football tactics.
  6. Coaching defensive and attacking advanced skills and techniques.
  7. Positional play and multiple team formations.
  8. Fitness and conditioning for advanced, senior and semi professional football players.
  9. Game sense approach to develop awareness of space, time and orientation.
  10. Advanced small sided games to enhance players tactical maturity.
  11. Coaching the principles of zone play.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars and performance laboratories.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformancePractical exercise60%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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