10 beach soccer experts are engaged in a pilot course to outline future teaching and train the next coaches for Beach Soccer.
In this course, held at the Centro di Preparazione Olimpica di Tirrenia, the beach soccer professionals will debate and structure the future teaching strategy and materials of the Technical Department at the Italian National FA to redefine the future of beach soccer formation in Italy in a course organized by the FIGC.
The sessions over this past week ranged from the theory in the classroom to practical learning on the field of play, to accomplish a 360º perspective to better inform the didactic approaches to be taken in the coming courses.
The president of the Technical Department of the FIGC, Demetrio Albertini, highlighted the strong commitment by all the professionals and the FA in this project.
“With this project , the FIGC wants to restate our determination in making beach soccer, a key discipline in our football world, grow. Our objective is to provide the tools and instruments to ‘teach the teachers’ and, consequently, make our players our players”,
Demetrio Albertini
“We want to give all the opportunities to a discipline like beach soccer which is part of our football world; our goal is to provide the best possible tools to ‘train the trainers’ and, consequently, to make our players grow more and more ”.
The course – born under the impulse of Club Italia and of those who have been at the helm of the Italian national beach soccer team for years – involved personalities from this world behind the counters in the classroom such as the Italian coach, Emiliano Del Duca; his assistant coach, Michele Leghissa; the blue athletic trainer, Paolo La Rocca, and the former national team footballer, Francesco Corosiniti. To complete a ‘parterre de rois’ of absolute importance for the discipline, also the technicians of teams at the top of Italian beach soccer such as Nicola Lami, Stefano Santini, Matteo Marrucci and Oliviero Di Lorenzo, in addition to the goalkeeper coach, Mauro Siotto, and to a beach soccer coach with international experience such as Massimiliano De Celis.
Source: FIBC, BSWW
