Football teacher training course starts with 25 participants

The former national players Christoph Metzelder, Tim Borowski and Christian Rahn want to become football teachers. Starting in June, the three ex-professionals will be among a total of 25 candidates for the 66th course at the German Football Association (DFB), which, following a fundamental reform, is to be “more location-independent, practice-oriented and more individually oriented”.

“We want to train football teachers, develop players, lead teams and work successfully in the clubs,” said Daniel Niedzkowski, head of the training course: “The participants impressively demonstrated in the selection process that they have this potential. With coaches from licensed leagues, junior performance centres and state associations, this course has a very interesting mix, which will enrich the joint work.”

The course consists of 14 three-day attendance phases (plus exams) at the sports school in Hennef, ten accompanied application phases in the club, national and international internships and hospitations as well as an eleven-week, online-based self-study. The review phase is scheduled for April 2020.

Metzelder and Borowski are completing the last part of a special training course according to the guidelines of the European Football Union (UEFA) to promote coaches with an international player career. Imke Wübbenhorst is a female trainer in the field and Conny Frank Fritsch is the head coach of the national team for footballers with cerebral palsy.