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System of children's football: how to raise strong players. Interview with Bohdan Hordynyuk on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian Football Association Education and Leadership Center
How to develop young football players, evaluate the work of a children's coach, and help children stay in football? This is discussed in the new episode of the podcast from the UAF Football Education and Leadership Center.
The hero of the new video on the YouTube channel of the UAF Football Education and Leadership Center is Bogdan Hordyniuk — Director of the Football Development Department at UAF and First Vice President of the National League of the Future.
Behind Hordyniuk's back is the experience of a young football player in a sports boarding school, a children’s coach and director of a football academy. His own sporting path helped him form an understanding of the development of children's football, where the main priority is not victory at any cost but the upbringing of technically prepared, creative and confident players.
In a conversation with the UAF Football Education and Leadership Center, Bogdan Hordyniuk shared practical experience working with children and talked about how a unified system of youth football is gradually forming in Ukraine. This includes national football philosophy, coach development, standardization of competitions, and approaches that help unlock each child's potential.
Podcast topics:
- Why victory at any cost hinders the development of young football players.
- How to track a child's progress in technical skills, thinking and behavior.
- What parents should pay attention to when choosing a children's coach.
- Why a coach should not only be an expert but also a good communicator who understands children.
- How the UAF is working on a national football philosophy and common training principles.
- How a unified regulation of children's competitions works in different regions of Ukraine.
- What Ukrainian coaches can learn from Manchester City and how to apply this experience in their work.
- Why coaches need to constantly learn and how the UAF is developing educational opportunities in regions.
- How to support children aged 12–13 when the demands of play, physical load and psychological state change.
Hordyniuk also spoke about training seminars based on the methodology of Manchester City. After processing and translating the materials, UAF organized meetings with coaches in 17 regions of Ukraine. Over a thousand specialists participated in these events. Additionally, UAF is working on a series of webinars to enable coaches to learn independently regardless of their location.
Watch the full interview with Bogdan Hordyniuk on the YouTube channel of the UAF Football Education and Leadership Center.
