Ekkono is a coaching method specialized in teaching football game understading, originally developed by Carles Romagosa and David Hernandez. The method is the result of a long development process of more than 20 years, which has been utilized in training centers, universities, clubs and with professional players and coaches.
The starting point of the method is to gather all the information available about the game and structure it into an understandable way of teaching game understanding. After this, the goal of the Ekkono Method is to help players reach their full potential through cognitive exercises and to teach them the key individual fundamentals of the game.
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.
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
3.1. 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.
Date: 23.-24.3.2022 & 25.-26.3.2022
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.
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.
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.
Date: Autumn 2022
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.
Date: 15.-16.6.2022
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.
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Ekkono pathway
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Ekkono-Online kurssi antoi päivittäisen arkeeni paljon laatua. Kurssin aktiivinen suorittaminen ja opiskelu haastoivat minut päivittäin pohtimaan omaa valmentamistani ja toimintaani. Online-kurssi auttoi ensin methdodology-osan avulla jäsentelemään peliä paremmin ja ymmärtämään, miksi tietyissä ikävaiheissa tulee keskittyä tiettyihin asioihin. Se auttoi minua luomaan kokonaiskuvaa jalkapallovalmentamisen kokonaisuudesta ja ymmärtää, miten progressiivisesti viedään pelaajaa eteenpäin. Esimerkiksi Planning-osio auttoi taas suoraan kenttätoimintaa ja auttoi rakentamaan tiettyyn ikäluokkaan ja opetettavaan asian sopivan harjoitteen ja harjoituskokonaisuuden.
Kurssissa ehdottomasti oli myös loistavaa tutorilta saatava palaute. Palaute oli tarkkaa ja sieltä nostettiin hyvin asioita joihin pitäisi keskittyä lisää, ja annettiin kysymyksiä ja pohdintoja. Loppukokeiden tehtäväskaala oli myös ihailtavan laaja ja haastoi jokaisen osion lopuksi pohdiskelemaan tarkasti käsiteltyä asiaa.
