Professional Diploma in Football Coach

Module 1: The science behind Barça Football

Module 2: The elements involved

Module 3: The defining concepts of Barça Football

Module 4: The game as a process

Module 1: Optimizing training

Module 2: Cognitive elements of the player

Module 3: Group elements of the team

Module 4: The phases of play

Module 1: Train-optimize

Module 2: The training session

Module 3: Training specific to Barça Football I

Module 4: Training specific to Barça Football II

MODULE 1. Critical Thinking and Methodological Context Where do we come from and where are we going? Understand what is the ultimate goal of the methodology and how to integrate all the existing elements in the learning context.
MODULE 2. The Coach's Learning Why do the coaches see what they see? Understand how their behaviours emerge and how to get in tune with the team's context.
MODULE 3. Coach-Player Interaction How to optimise the exchange of information and have a greater impact on the learning process? Understand the environmental conditions through which the player’s naturalised behaviours are facilitated and generated.
MODULE 4. Pedagogical Exchange with the Player. Learning Strategies and Atmosphere.

MODULE 1. Observational learning how to give feedback? Understand what differential aspects are added in the coach's work when combining visual feedback with physical practice.
MODULE 2. Training practices. Where to give the feedback? Pay attention as a coach to the resulting effect on the player of the relationship between the practice context and the intervention style.
MODULE 3. Exchange with the player through observational learning. Anticipate and concrete multimodal extrinsic information to enhance the motor learning process.
MODULE 4. The visual feedback on video. Why give video-feedback? Alter the viewing speed to specify the interaction.

MODULE 1. Coordinative Preference PSSs
MODULE 2. Cognitive Preference PSSs
MODULE 3. Contextual Preference PSSs
MODULE 4. Cross-sectional parameters: introduction to variability and oriented or exploratory planning

MODULE 1: Definition and evolution of the start phase and understanding of the general analysis criteria
MODULE 2: Study of the structural elements of the start phase
MODULE 3: Study of the dynamic elements of the start phase
MODULE 4: Statistical analysis, selection and presentation of information

MODULE 1: The importance of SPs and introduction to their analysis
MODULE 2: Defensive SPs Analysis
MODULE 3: Offensive SPs Analysis
MODULE 4: Methodological trends in SP training