Raising Grassroots Football Coaches to the Level of Professional Fitness Coaching
Backround

Fitness training represents the improvement of the athletes’ abilities according to the needs of their

sport. It primarily refers to motor attributes, abilities and skills important for top performance. Therefore,

it is a controlled process, which serves to raise competitive abilities to a higher level.

Fitness in football means fulfilling the standards of the psychosomatic states of football players, the

functional state of the football player’s organism, where physical and motor abilities are developed. The

task of fitness preparation of football players is to raise functional and motor abilities to optimal level.

This is usually handled by a football fitness coach.

The project work packages

WP-1: Project management and coordination

WP-2: Development of a grassroots football fitness course program and training modules

WP-3: Development of a gamification-based web platform and mobile applications for grassroots

football fitness

WP-4: Transnational learning activity:

- A fitness course with the support of technological tools for grassroots football coaches

- Planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating a fitness program for grassroots football

players

WP-5: Impact and dissemination

The project main deliverables:

• The grassroots football fitness course program

• The training modules of the grassroots football course program

• Gamification-based web platform for grassroots football fitness

• Gamification-based mobile applications for grassroots football fitness

The overall objective of the project:

The project aims to strengthen the skills and profiles of grassroots football coaches, increase their

employability and enable them to reach new job opportunities by transferring advanced methods and

knowledge from professional football.

The Erasmus+ Program emphasizes that European citizens should be better equipped with the

knowledge, skills and competencies needed in a dynamically changing society that is increasingly

mobile, multicultural and digital.

The direct target group of the project

•  Grassroots football coaches

•  Football fitness coaches

•  Football athletic performance coaches

•  Physical education and sports teachers

•  Students who are studying in the field of sport

•  Women's football coaches