Ekkono level 3

Ekkono Level 3

Ekkono level 3 course is specifically designed for U13-U20 age group coaches and coaching managers. The language of the course is English. Course is held at Eerikkilä Sport & Outdoor Resort and online.

Ekkono Level 3 includes 5 different modules:

• 3.1. U13 coach: Become an expert leading your team
• 3.2. U13 coach: Become an expert designing trainings
• 3.3 U20 coach: Developing Team Fundamentals: Offensive phase & defensive transition
• 3.4 U20 coach: Developing Team Fundamentals: Defensive phase & offensive transition
• 3.5. Education for Directors of Coaching: Creating technical department & strengthening club identity

Duration of each module is two days. Each module has two different date options from which you can choose the one that suits you best. One module will be held in Eerikkilä and another one online.

3.1. U13 coach: Become an expert leading your team

Coaches will understand the importance of managing and leading a team both in training and in competition, to maximize the performance of the coach and including ideas to be taken into consideration before, during and after each happening.

Moreover, coaches will go through the most important didactical aspects and how this methodological process has a direct impact on the motivation, learning capacity and the performance of the players.

Dates:
12.-13.9.2023 Tue-Wed, Online
19.-20.9.2023 Tue-Wed, Eerikkilä

Price:

• 290 € per person in double room, 325 € per person in single room
• 210 € Online

3.2. U13 coach: Become an expert designing trainings

In order to help the players, it is necessary to be able to generate an appropriate learning context into the training tasks. In this course, coaches will learn how to make it possible. To do so, they must know a lot of important details regarding how we identify a context, how we build it and what are the elements that allow the coach to generate a suitable training context for their team.

In addition, coaches will also learn how to use correctly analytical tasks and reduce the complexity of the games to adjust it to the level or understanding of the players if needed.

Dates:
19.-20.10.2023 Thu-Fri, Online
6.-7.11.2023 Mon-Tue, Eerikkilä

Price:

• 290 € per person in double room, 325 € per person in single room
• 210 € Online

3.3 U20 coach: Developing Team Fundamentals: Offensive phase & defensive transition

Coaches will learn the key Team Fundamentals to work in the specialization stage which will give them good basis for the performance stage. Coaches will improve their understanding and game analysis abilities during the offensive phase – including fundamentals which aims to set up a good organization for the team in the different moments, and key ideas to disorganize the opponent team’s organization and break through. And also for the defensive transition, which is essential in the modern football.

Also, coaches will go through different training examples for both offensive phase and the defensive transition.

Dates:
29.-30.8.2023 Tue-Wed, Online
5.-6.9.2023 Tue-Wed, Eerikkilä

Price:

• 290 € per person in double room, 325 € per person in single room
• 210 € Online

3.4 U20 coach: Developing Team Fundamentals: Defensive phase & offensive transition

Coaches will learn the key Team Fundamentals to work in the specialization stage and that will serve as a basis for the performance stage. Coaches will improve their understanding and game analysis abilities in the defensive phase – including fundamentals which helps the team to not to be disorganized by the opponent team and prepare the next attack- and in the offensive transition, a key moment in modern football in order to create chances to score.

Also, coaches will go through different training examples for both defensive phase and the offensive transition.

Dates:

13.-14.10.2023 Fri-Sat, Online
23.-24.10.2023 Mon-Tue, Eerikkilä

Price:

• 290 € per person in double room, 325 € per person in single room
• 210 € Online

3.5. Education for Directors of Coaching: Creating technical department & strengthening club identity

Directors of coaches will learn the most important elements to steer their club into the right direction to improve the structure and processes within the club.

This includes ideas as how to create a methodology department inside the club, how to organize the content program for the different age groups within the club, and also how to generate debates inside the club in order to help the coaches to work in the same direction and synergize their efforts.

Dates: To be announced later

Ekkono-Pathway

Ekkono-pathway includes 4 levels. The Level 1 is organized online, and other educations (L2-L4) are organized in Eerikkilä. The levels are meant to be carried out in order, however inside the level the order can vary. In the level 3 & 4, the coach don’t necessarily need to participate in the age phase that is not relevant to his/her team. For example U13 coach don’t have to go through the educations 3.3 & 3.4, and therefore can continue straight to Youth Master Ekkono after 3.1 & 3.2. The level 3 education 3.5 is only organized for the clubs’ directors of coaching.

Click here to see the Ekkono-pathway

Education package for U13 coaches

 There is a possibility that you can registrate yourself for the all the educations for U13 educations. Signing up for the educational package for U13 coaches you can participate for all the educations on level 2 and level 3.1 and 3.2 educations. Additionally, you can decide if you want to join educations on Eerikkilä or online.

Price:

• 980€ (normal price 1450 €)

Education package for U20 coaches

There is a possibility that you can registrate yourself for the all the educations for U20 educations. Signing up for the educational package for U20 coaches you can participate for all the educations on level 2 and level 3.3 and 3.4 educations. Additionally, you can decide if you want to join educations on Eerikkilä or online.

Price:

• 980€ (normal price 1450 €)

You can registrate yourself by sending email (name, club & team and registration for U13 or to U20 education package) to antti.kekkonen@eerikkila.fi.