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    What is a Uefa Pro Licence?

    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=629 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3><DIV class=mxb><DIV class=sh>What is a Uefa Pro Licence? </DIV></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=416><DIV class=mvb><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=416 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=bottom><DIV class=mvb><SPAN class=byl>By Alistair Magowan </SPAN></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=203 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV> <DIV class=cap>Southgate will complete his Uefa B Licence in January 2007</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

    The Premier League has given Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate special dispensation to continue at the Riverside despite not possessing an Uefa Pro Licence.

    The qualification is mandatory in order to manage in the top divisions in many other European countries including Spain, Italy, Germany and France.

    But what exactly is a Pro Licence and is it actually relevant to what a Premier League manager does day-to-day?

    <DIV class=ch1>WHAT IS A PRO LICENCE?</DIV>

    The Uefa Pro Coaching Licence is aimed at Europe's elite band of coaches but it is actually more about management than coaching itself.

    The Uefa 'A' Licence, a step below the Pro Licence, covers matters more suited to the football pitch.

    That takes at least a year and encompasses 180 hours but Uefa guidelines suggest that coaches should have a further year's experience before progressing.

    <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=208 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5></TD><TD class=sibtbgf><DIV class=sihf>HOW QUALIFIED IS THE PREMIERSHIP? </DIV><DIV class=mva><DIV class=bull>Arsene Wenger (ARS) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Martin O'Neill (AV) - FA Dip</DIV><DIV class=bull>Mark Hughes (BLA) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Sam Allardyce (BOL) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Les Reed (CHA) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Jose Mourinho (CHE) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>David Moyes (EVE) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Chris Coleman (FUL) - Pro Lic*</DIV><DIV class=bull>Rafa Benitez (LIV) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Sir Alex Ferguson (MU) - FA Dip</DIV><DIV class=bull>Stuart Pearce (MC) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Gareth Southgate (MID) - B Lic*</DIV><DIV class=bull>Glenn Roeder (NEW) - Pro Lic*</DIV><DIV class=bull>Harry Redknapp (POR) - FA Dip</DIV><DIV class=bull>Steve Coppell (REA) - FA Dip</DIV><DIV class=bull>Neil Warnock (SHU) - FA Dip </DIV><DIV class=bull>Martin Jol (TOT) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Adrian Boothroyd (WAT) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Alan Pardew (WH) - Pro Lic</DIV><DIV class=bull>Paul Jewell (WIG) - FA Dip# </DIV></DIV><DIV class=mva>*denotes currently taking qualification; #denotes taken one-off course to pass diploma </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The Premier League only signed up to Uefa's coaching rules in 2003 and English football has been playing catch up since.

    The result is that, as well as the major European footballing nations, the likes of the Czech Republic now has more coaches with the A Licence and Pro Licence than this country.

    Coaches on the continent tend to do the Pro Licence before they manage in their respective top divisions but in England the FA has had to tailor the qualification to suit managers already plying their trade in the Premiership.

    Recent graduates include Bolton's Sam Allardyce and Manchester City's Stuart Pearce but the course also suits assistants such as Blackburn's Mark Bowen and coaches who aspire to work in the top division.

    While an increasing number of British coaches have now passed the Pro Licence, the mor
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    RE: What is a Uefa Pro Licence?

    The part that I like is wherecandidates haveto show how they would plan for a specific game or specific situation.

    Lazaroni failed big time but one big difference between Lazaroni and Carl Brown is that in Lazaroni's first game against the USA he showed the concept of defensive pressure and how to apply it at specific times against a specific player - Reyna was free to collect the ball near his eighteen but was hassled everytime he tried to collect anywhere near the half line. Result? He started playing deep in his own half (his little comfort zone) and the USA's backline backed up about 15 yards from up where they normally like to draw their line. For the first time against the USA,as much as they had us at bay we had them too - they could hardly create anything. Normally they plant at the halfline and we have to run up and down like fools just to break into their half.

    I thinkJamaican coaching culturestill does not demand detailed plansof exactly how to handle opponentssowe go and try to play straight up which is fun to watch 8 0ut of ten times but the other two times end up in domino scores against usand calls for a foreign coach.
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      RE: What is a Uefa Pro Licence?

      The interesting part I find is that while this may be mssing at the international level, it is alive and well at the local level especially in the schoolboys competitions, at least among the better coaches.



      In the last few weeks every time I interview a coach I hear them pointing out the strong and weak points of the next team they are going to play and which players they need to target and how to stop their movements.



      The schoolboys coaching staff also do a lot of advanced scouting and it is always fun to go to games and see assistants form other schools trying to blend in with the crowd.
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        RE: What is a Uefa Pro Licence?

        I remember our coach at Knox went to watch a game between Edwin Allen and another team. We were to play Edwin Allen next so the next day in training this poor man told us "me see dem play wednesday man dem a fool dem only big..." that was the extent of his scouting report needless to say we got a domino score plus onein the rain at Edwin allen from Messam and Company that saturday.

        Great day in football in the early nineties when ISSA stipulated that coaches needed to have a minimum certificate to coach school boy football. That certificate had to have covered scouting.
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          RE: What is a Uefa Pro Licence?

          Big man me sey good teams and good coaches, how the hell Knox and Edwin Allen come inna dis??? he he he
          Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
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            RE: What is a Uefa Pro Licence?

            True story:that coach, a Spanish teacher got his claim to fame over all the PE teachers when he lead almost the same squad to victory in the rural area U-14 at Monroe over Cornwall College.

            So sure was Cornwall that they would brush Knox aside and retain the trophy they had won the previous year that they didn't bring our cup to the game

            Kind of hard to have the same success at the D'cup level when training for the season starts on the first day of school in September...
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            • #7
              RE: What is a Uefa Pro Licence?

              Siya (12/2/2006)I thinkJamaican coaching culturestill does not demand detailed plansof exactly how to handle opponentssowe go and try to play straight up which is fun to watch 8 0ut of ten times but the other two times end up in domino scores against usand calls for a foreign coach.
              Siya, here is the Jamaican coaching culture as it comes to games.

              "The ball roun' mi ah show yuh!"
              "Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." ~ Kahlil Gibran

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