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COLUMN ONE Kicking off (to speak in football terms) my philosophy that shall appear regularly. Youth football will be a regular feature and mainly the role of the youth trainer within the development of children. I mean especially their football development but also their social and emotional development will receive attention. A lot of youth trainers want to be important. They want to win leagues as success reflects on them. However, this is not what being a youth trainer is all about, it is all about the children. A club should judge its youth trainers on the skills and abilities that a student has at the start of the season and at the end of that season. The players should have improved over this period of time. On a scale of 1 to 10, they should have made a 7 into a 9, and a 5 into a 7. Real talents (the '9's) will be lured away by the professional clubs at an early stage (a lot can be said about this and I will surely treat this too). However, 'average' players should be able to learn a lot at an amateur club too, given the right method of training. I am convinced that youth football is, in essence, an individual sport rather than a team sport, but I will return to this bold statement in time. As you will no doubt have notice, I talk of football trainers rather than coaches and I do this for a reason. Children need trainers to teach and show them technical skills. A trainer shouldn't even coach on match days or someone who plays to the strengths and abilities of the opposition side by means of tactical analyses. Even on match days, the youth trainer is a trainer, assisting and developing children/youth football players from a technical and tactical skills point of view. As you see, I have already touched on a couple of issues to which I will certainly give my opinion in the future. Cor van Dijk
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Cor van Dijk, football skills trainer and head of youth development at BVV Barendrecht Born and bred in Rotterdam, I now live nearby in a town called Barendrecht. I worked at Unilever Research in Vlaardingen as a researcher until 2002. On the side I have been a football coach since 1984. Since 2002 I have worked as a full-time football coach, technical coordinator and head of youth development. I am 'essentially' a youth coach, which means that I prefer improving young players' abilities of all ages as opposed to coaching senior teams. I started as an u16s coach at CVV Rotterdam and worked at TOGB, Feyenoord and DHC before ending up at BVV Barendrecht. At BVV Barendrecht I train the first and second team of the u14s and also coach its first team. After all, it is still a great passion to be out on the pitch with the lads. Football club BVV Barendrecht have worked with the so-called 'Coerver' practice material for years and from even an earliest footballing age, technical abilities are considered to be very important. One of my jobs is leading internal courses for coaches and trainers. Obviously, this features football skills training and applying football skills. As a result of popular demand for 'images' of course materials, I created a DVD together with video producer Gertjan Withagen. This DVD contains more than two hours of video material. The DVD is available for skills trainers of other clubs, which enables all youth skills trainers to carry out sound skills training sessions. As a result of publishing the DVD, the enthusiastic responses and the requests for guidance when applying skills training; I conduct courses in skills training.
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You can order the English DVD directly by sending an e-mail to Cor van Dijk. For Great-Britain inhabitants, the costs are 30 pounds (25 + 5 pounds transport). The bank account is Postbank 338799, Van Dijk, Barendrecht, Netherlands. International bank codes codes: Don't forget to send your name and address to Cor van Dijk
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