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SPORTS: COACHING FOOTBALL
COACH
FOOTBALL IN SRI LANKA FROM 2 WEEKS TO 6 MONTHS
Sri Lanka is an exotic island, famous for its
1,600 kilometres of unspoilt, golden beaches and diverse climate zones. It is a
wondrous island, with flora and fauna to match - the proverbial paradise island! Sri Lankans are very friendly, hospitable and welcoming, if somewhat laidback
and in no-rush mode to get things done!
Help to continue the excellent football coaching
programme in Sri Lanka!
Our schools are for the poorer children and the
underprivileged section of the community
in JA-ELA, midway between Colombo
and the popular Indian Ocean resort of Negombo, and the football
coaching project is very popular with the children
You can combine a two-month football placement with a
one-month placement in the
Elephant Orphanage.
On this
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ABOUT THE PROJECT:
A few years ago, Travellers was lucky enough
to have a group of five volunteers with lots of initiative who all
wanted to go to Sri Lanka at the same time to coach football to the children. As
a result, we arranged a project for them, even though we hadn't run a
football coaching project before in Sri Lanka.
This project was so hugely successfully and the children loved so much
that we've continued it ever since, for over five years now. The
five volunteers reported at the end of their project that the children showed "vast
improvement" during the three months and the Principal of one of
the schools informed us that the school's under 17s
team had won four out of their last six matches!
The schools we help cater for the poorer and underprivileged
children and have about 400 to 500 pupils aged 5 to 16 years old.
As a football volunteer in Sri Lanka you will coach football at a
number of schools. The facilities are basic but the children are excited
about playing football and being coached by our volunteers. The pitches
in Sri Lanka are typically gravel and dirt pitches which makes the game
of football very quick and exciting as it is played at a very different
pace and style to European football.
The schools we work with have very
limited sports equipment and facilities so as a volunteer you will be
bringing the sports equipment and coaching opportunities to them. As a
coach at the other schools your role will be to provide coaching to the
children at the school and to work with the teachers to create school
teams that will play in the Travellers Football Tournaments
which you will organise with the schools as part of your placement.
The Travellers Football Tournaments were established to provide the
children in the schools we work with the opportunity to play football competitively. Many children in the schools that we work with on this placement
never have the opportunity to play competitive football. As a volunteer on this
placement you will have the opportunity to organise a tournament at the end of
your placement bringing together all the schools you have been working with to
play against each other. In the past volunteers have organised very
successful football tournaments which have been the highlight of the
year for the children at the school given the honor to represent there
school.
We provide
you with a manual on how to run a tournament which will assist you in the
running of the tournament, although your hard work and communication with the
schools is essential. The tournaments you will run will be the highlight of your
placement and will be the highlight of the year for the children taking part.
FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO COACHING WEBSITE
As a volunteer
sports coach with Travellers, we have arranged for you
to get a year’s free subscription to a Coaching website:
www.grassrootscoaching.com. With
this membership (which normally comes with a price tag
of £39.99), you automatically become a member of the International Coaches
Association (ICA) and join a community of coaches from over 65 countries.
The ICA is
rapidly growing into one of the largest coaching organizations in the world.
This subscription will allow you access to over 4,000 pages of the best
interactive, online soccer and football coaching information.
Although
they deal mainly with soccer/football, the coaching principles are the same for
all sports and will be helpful for you in teaching any sport. This
excellent resource should hopefully be able to give
you a few tips that will benefit both you and the children that you’ll be
coaching, and enable you to gain the maximum enjoyment from your placement.
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