This is the list of Coaches who will, if the Futsal Nationals goes the way of the Championships over the last few years, dominate the Grand Finals in 2012. One thing - why is the ACT player / ACT Coach, Sam Smith, coaching a NSW team? Unbelievable!
NSW Futsal State Coaches Announced
29 of the 32 NSW coaches for the 2012 FFA Nationals now announced
Football NSW is proud to announce its State Coaches for the 2012 FFA Futsal National Championships to be held in Canberra on 9th – 13th January.
Football NSW is not letting the grass grow under their feet when it comes to the development of talented youth players. They have decided to outsource some of their high performance program development activities to suitably accredited Clubs. Very smart on so many fronts! First Project 22 and now CAAS.
This is not the same as the FFA's National Club Accreditation Scheme (NCAS) - we have yet to hear about that in the ACT. Meanwhile, NSW gets further ahead.
This news itme was sourced from the Football NSW website. Please read on...
Club Accreditation Academy System established at Football NSW
07.10.10 19:39
Football NSW has embarked on a new system titled ‘Club Accreditation Academy System’ or simply known as CAAS in the further development of the game in the NSW state beginning with the NSW Premier League.
Football NSW has for many years reviewed elite player development both here and around the world, with the aim of improving the everyday environment for the elite youth player.
The Club Academy Accreditation System (CAAS) will be a partnership between Football NSW and six (6) Premier Youth League Clubs who best meet the requirements of the application for accreditation.
The Club Academy Accreditation System (CAAS) agreement is based on the key areas of youth development based on Football Federations Australia’s National Curriculum, with the aim of “Making Australia a leader in the world game”.
The Club Academy Accreditation System (CAAS) agreement also unites State and in turn National Team coaches directly with the Club’s Academy. One of the Clubs responsibilities will be to identify and develop players and coaches for future State Teams.
Each Academy will be evaluated by the Football NSW High Performance Manager or Unit staff member equivalent throughout each year. The Youth Academy club will receive two formal evaluations in over 50 categories each year.
The Academy will be asked to focus on identifying and developing the next generation of elite coaches. These coaches will in turn have the opportunity to be involved in State titles squad, state Team squads.
Football NSW wishes to advise that the following NSW Premier League Clubs have gained Club Academy Accreditation (CAAS) status for season 2011. · Blacktown City Football Club · Manly United Football Club · Marconi Football Club · Sutherland Sharks Football Club · Sydney Olympic Football Club · Sydney United Football Club
In a major initiative towards improving standards in player development, these Clubs will adhere to the National Football Curriculum (NFC) and will work closely with Football NSW elite player pathways.
This accreditation process has been the first step in what will be a ongoing effort in offering assistance and support for Clubs.
Football NSW believes that all Club Academies should, in time, be accredited and similarly commited to lifting playing standards at all levels.
This program was broadcast on 2xxfm (98.3mhz), Tuesday 13 July 2010 at 7:00PM, through the Australian Community Radio Network.
In this program we continue the excellent interview series with the Manager of the Football NSW High Performance Unit, Paul Bentvelzen. The flagship high performance program in NSW is Project 22.
Last week Paul spoke at length on the substance of Project 22 and already you would have observed that this high performance program is truly high performance. Its well ahead of the current Capital Football HPP and well in advance of its predecessor, Capital Football Academy program.
Rumour has it that Capital Football will review the current HPP. Lets be sure that we do not head back toward the tired and discredited Academy system. Lets be sure to keep what is going well and change what is not and include what we have missed in version one of the HPP. Lets not get stuck on that old chestnut, HPP playing squads, that so fascinated a small number of the Capital Football Board, causing major delay, uncertainty and anger at Club level. Who will write the terms of reference for the review and will we, the footballing community get a chance to see the draft and comment?
The Capital Football Board could do no worse than listen to their staff, rather than employ some third party who in time honoured consulting fashion, will interview the employees for the information an ideas, serve them up as original thought, massage it to suit the outcomes really desired by the those engaging them, then present a tome akin to the ten commandments. The likelihood that you get told anything you could not find out or did not know yourself is small, but it sounds so clever to have a “consultant” tell you. We all know how it works - the good old Canberra two step!.
Importantly, lets see open consultation with the football community, not just the favoured few. Bring in expertise as required, but don’t hand the whole business over to some one else. Time is running out fast.
Benchmarking against Project 22 is instructive. Take from it what works in our environment, what we can resource, then implement it bit by bit, review it every year in open forum. Keep what works, change what doesn’t.
If your child is in a Capital Football HHP, do you have a whole of program detailed periodised program for your child? No? Well there is one change straight off the mark and the wonder is its was never there in the past. It’s a basic organisational, technical and educational requirement of high performance training. Do you need a consultant to tell you that?
Tonight Paul Bentvelzen speaks on Coaches in Project 22, the importance of continuously scouting talent rather than just staying with the original selections, some of the cultural / behavioural issues they are wrestling with and finally, the systems for coach support and communication they have implemented and underpin Project 22.
We are not close enough yet in the ACT on some of this and you don’t need an external review to work it out or fix it. There are plenty of smart people in football around the ACT and the AIS is just up the road. Why not ask Football NSW?
This program is broadcast on Tuesday, 6 Juy 2010 on 2xxfm(98.3mhz) trough the Australian Community Radio Network.
In this program we take a look at the Football NSW High Performance Program solution – called "Project 22".
We speak to Paul Bentvelzen, Manager of the Football NSW HP unit (Project 22). Paul and his staff know exactly what they about when it comes to junior Football development. The results of the Project 22 solution are impressive at an early stage of implemetation. If you needed any proof, cast your mind back to the recent Under 13 Boys and Gilrs National Junior Championships. If you were lucky enough to see the NSW Metro teams play, you will need little convincing - and this has little to do with the fact that NSW obviously has more players - its all about how they do it!
There is a very real difference between the "Talented" and "Community" development streams. Both are as important as the other, but its very difficult to get a clear focus on "talented" player development, unless you get very specific and design the program to fit this and only this specification. I doing so, it makes it possible to give real emphasis to community development. Without robust community development, many fewer players will emerge to join the talented development stream. Community development is all too often left behind, but that’s another story and one the NPL has not forgotten.
Start with this simple, self evident fact – the talented players in each age group are a very small population of players. As they grow and get older they may not remain in the talented group of players, being replaced by others that have emerged. That is a very serious challenge for coaches and administrators in football.There is risk in getting on the talented treadmill from the moment the child begins a program. Its not a permanent selection – for player or parent or coach!
So lets begin by getting the talented player stream water tight.
If you are a parent and have a child that is showing some talent or has been identified as being suitable for talented stream development in football, you will in all likelihood, in the ACT, spend a lot of your precious disposable and scarce family resources on keeping the child engaged in the development process. Its not cheap here in the ACT! It’s a burden families find hard to bare.
Ask yourself this simple question – is the Capital Football HPP a genuinely high performance program? Use the Project 22 solution to make comparisions. What can we take away from how NSW's does business on this matter? What should be the primary elements of the football HPP in the ACT region? Don’t get me wrong, Capital Football have made a good start, but it is a long way yet from being a comprehensive talented football development package, within the meaning of the national curriculum. How to go forward?
There is no one way of doing this – the solution must match the environment. By the same reasoning, different environments are no excuse for sub optimal outcomes. Clearly, Football NSW comprehend this concept and Project 22 is a very robust response to junior football talented player development.
The interview will be broadcast in three parts, the first two cover various aspects of their solution and the final interview deals with the systems of communication they have developed at Football NSW for players and coaches in Project 22, together with the player and coach resource systems (web based) used to underpin training.
These interviews speak for themselves. We have a fair it of catching up to do. You’ll be very interested to hear how they tackle the talented stream in Football NSW.
Football NSW is proud to announce its State Coaches for the 2012 FFA Futsal National Championships to be held in Canberra on 9th – 13th January.