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Elite & International Coach Programme
Touchline Logic’s own capstone — not a real qualification: managing at the very top of the club game and for your country.
£18,000 (an in-game price, set above the Pro Licence) · Invented by Touchline Logic — no such real qualification exists. It builds on what the real Pro Licence, its study visit and the technical-director programmes teach.
Free lesson · International football: windows, squads and qualifying
What this programme is — and what it is not
The Elite & International Coach Programme is Touchline Logic’s own invention. It is not a real qualification and no football body awards it. In real football nothing sits above the UEFA Pro Diploma: it is the highest coaching qualification in European football, the licence top-division head coaches must hold. You already have it.
The real Pro takes about 18 months and at least 360 hours, and part of it is a five-day overseas study visit observing an international tournament — the closest the real pathway comes to this course’s subject. This programme picks up there: managing your country with a few days’ contact at a time, a month-long tournament where one bad night ends everything, a dressing room of world-class players, a global audience, and what you leave behind.
| This programme | |
|---|---|
| Real or invented? | Invented by Touchline Logic and labelled as such in the game. No real-world licence. |
| Builds on | The UEFA Pro curriculum, the technical-director and federation material, the executive programme for international players, and the sports-medicine material on load and recovery |
| Entry | The Pro held for two completed seasons, in post, at a top-tier club; 38 competitive matches managed during the course before the final |
| Assessment | Five module checks at 70%, then a competency final of 15 items in three groups. Each group must reach 70% on its own; two reassessments |
Source: Touchline Logic note
The syllabus: 5 modules, 17 lessons
- 1
International football: windows, squads and qualifying
- What this programme is — and what it is not free preview
- The national-team job: a different calendar
- Selecting a squad you cannot coach for long
- Clubs, federation and players: mapping the power
- 2
Managing a tournament
- Planning a tournament: minimal model, maximal clarity
- The group stage and life in camp
- Knockout night: extra time, substitutes and the shoot-out
- Load and recovery across a tournament
- 3
The elite environment: managing world-class players
- World-class players: differentiated but bounded
- Standards, safety and the leadership group
- Running an elite performance department
- 4
The global spotlight
- The press conference with the world watching
- Crisis, social media and the abuse of players
- Football, politics and the host country
- 5
Legacy, succession and the long career
- Succession: plan the future while you win the present
- Bringing through the next generation
- The long career: resilience, learning and leaving well