With only three weeks remaining to the launch of the Coerver® Coaching Youth Diploma 2012 in England, final preparations are being made to ensure that this is the best course yet. Over 400 coaches from across the world attended the Youth Diploma Course in 2011 and was the first time in Coerver® Coaching’s 28 year history that an authorised Coach Education course has been made available to external coaches.

The 2012 Coerver® Coaching Youth Diploma, in association with FourFourTwo Performance & UEFA Tact-X, will be available in only 3 locations in England this year with all courses being hosted at Professional Football club training facilities. First stop is Fulham FC on 19th & 20th May 2012 then it is on to Manchester City FC on 2nd & 3rd June 2012 and finally arriving at Birmingham City FC on 9th & 10th June 2012.

The purpose of the Coerver® Coaching Youth Diploma is to give attendees from all levels of the game a greater understanding of how to plan & deliver more effective coaching sessions. The focus of the course is the Coerver® Coaching Session Planner which provides a quick & easy solution for coaches who would like to construct weekly, monthly or even season long programmes using proven, high quality drills & games developed over 28 years by Coerver® Coaching.

The course will be delivered by Alf Galustian, Co-founder of Coerver® Coaching who said of the course “We’ve never had an authorized Coerver® pathway for Coaches until the last year, and we’ve been around 28 years, and we’re in 23 countries. Our new Diploma course is designed for Coaches who work with young players from 8-15 years old. We designed the diploma asking the question, how can we help coaches construct sessions for the week or the whole season?. The new Coerver® DVD’s and books Charlie Cooke and myself have devised, which is called the Coerver® Coaching Session Planner; is a formula that any coach can use to construct their season’s sessions, we have built the diploma course around this new material”.

The 2011 Youth Diploma course was attended by a range of people working at various levels of the game from parents who wanted to help their kids at home to coaches working with senior international players:

"These last two days on the Coerver® Coaching Youth Diploma course certainly made me a better coach, I have been a fan of Coerver® for many years".

Jose Morais, First Team Coach - Real Madrid CF

"The foundations of great teaching have always been championed by Coerver® who have taken football and created a system by which any child, through hard work and good teaching can master the basic ball skills, that then lead onto their application in skilful play.

We are passionate about our football and the belief that we must develop our players to be the best they can be. The Coerver® Coaching Youth Diploma Course has just made this whole job so much easier."

Carl Lander, Assistant Head Teacher - St Aubyns School, Essex

"I enjoyed the Coerver® Coaching Youth Diploma course immensely, I feel the course did show me some variations on familiar themes and I enjoyed how both Alf and Scott presented the course".

David Connolly, Southampton FC Striker

"I thought the Youth Diploma course was excellent, Coerver® is the building block on which all football should be taught. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and it has really encouraged me towant to become a better coach".

Mark Williams, Grassroots Coach - Birmingham

"I thoroughly enjoyed the Coerver® Coaching Youth Diploma course, and would recommend that all coaches working with young players should attend".

Richard Beale, Reserve Team Manager - Birmingham City FC

At the time of writing, 75% of all places for the 2012 Coerver Coaching Youth Diploma have been booked, to find out more information and to book, log-on towww.coerver.co.uk/youthdiploma