We assist in establishing a professional structure within your professional team.
Want to make the next step in your football development, PL FOOTBALL can assist you to go in to the right direction.
Like to organize any special activities, player, team or club development related you can also use PL FOOTBALL.
COACHING THE COACHES IS IMPORTANT IF YOU WANT MAXIMUM PLAYER DEVELOPMENT!
The coaching section of PL-Football is focusing on assisting football coaches or a single football coach to find the right direction for a long coaching career in (Youth) football. We will be able to develop coaches for average level or elite football level. With the structure that will be taught it is possible to see it as the foundation of the coach’s coaching career and then you have to add your own thoughts.
BASIC FOOTBALL COACHINGHere we focus in teaching coaches with or without a coaching license a clear structure. The basic football coaching lessons will bring a coach to the level where he can lead and organize his team during training sessions. |
ELITE-FOOTBALL COACHINGThis we organize at PL-Football as an advanced coach’s education opportunity. |
The contents for the lessons of Basic football coaching & Elite football coaching will be customized for a group of coaches or an individual coach.
Contact PL-Football with your request.
21.11.2019
PL-Football presents to all participants of the Football Forum 2019 the coaches application. The coaches will be able to create their own training sessions within the application of PL-Football. The application is availbale in the appstore and google play store in English and Russian.
Nationality: Dutch
Date of Birth: 08-08-1969
Place of Birth: Assen, The Netherlands
Patrick van Leeuwen is founder and owner of PL-Football consultancy. Allready at a young age football was important part of his life. When He was playing football in a local team He was invited at a certain moment to join a professional club, Sparta Rotterdam. When He joined the academy of Sparta Rotterdam He also started to attend the Dutch academy of sports, called CIOS. So for him there were two things very clear at that time, He wanted to play professional football but also secure a social career for after his professional football career. He graduated at the age of 21 from the Dutch academy of Sports with the UEFA A license in football coaching. From that moment He fully concentrated on football and try keep that up as long as possible to get the experience that He could use in his future coaching career. He finished because of an injury at the age of 27 with his professional football career. As planned, when He was younger, He got an invitation to start his coaching career at Feyenoord Rotterdam when He finished playing professional football. Later in his coaching and manager career He obtained the UEFA pro license.
Patrick has a large network of external international experienced consultants at his immediate disposal. In this way he is able to meet all requirements made by international clients and bring them to more success.
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1985 — 1994 Player FC Sparta Rotterdam |
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1994 — 1996 Player FC Helmond Sport |
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1996-1997 — Coach U/11 (Assistant U / 9 — U/12) 1997-1998 — Coach U/11 (Assistant U / 9, U/12, U/16 and U/23) 1998-1999 — Coach U/15 (assistant U/16) 1999-2000 — Coach U/14 (assistant U/16 and U/19) 2000-2001 — Coach U/14 2001-2002 — Coach of the project in China 2002-2003 — Assistant U/16 2003-2004 — Coach U/15 2004-2005 — Coach U/13 2005-2006/january — Manager International ProjectsFeyenoord |
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2006-2013 — Head of the Academy of Shakhtar Donetsk |
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2013- January 2016 Sport Director of FC Kairat |
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1 July 2016- Maccabi Tel Aviv FC Performance Director |
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Dutch Academy of Sport |
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UEFA Pro License |
1. Coaching a team 2. Assisting other coaches 3. Organize an academy 4. Select coaches for the academy 5. Educate coaches of the academy 6. Organize a scouting department 7. Select scouting personal 8. Organize international tournaments 9. Organize coaches congresses 10. Set up a first team organization 11. Create a network of football agents 12. Scouting professional players 13. To organize the football department of the club 14. To organize the budget of the football department |
06.07.2019
Patrick van Leeuwen was brought into Maccabi Tel Aviv to turn the youth department and academy into one of the best in the world and to ensure that the club’s footballing philosophy was represented at all ages. Patrick recognised that the... more
02.02.2019
VAN LEEUWEN: GOLDHAR’S INVESTMENT WILL REPAY ITSELF Maccabi’s Youth Department Manager in an interview: “Israeli football doesn’t value talent”, “There was difficulty in embedding a way to people who are certain they know more", "without... more
Hi,
The e-learning section of PL-Football has changed. The information about my football philosophy that previously was presented in e-books is now also available as an application. The e-books describe the football philosophy at FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Kairat Almaty and the application will show you how to come to an organized training session.
The application “PL-Football” is available in the apple app store and the google play store the e-books are available at amazon.com.
The new application will give you an insight in the football philosophy, the structure of the training session and multiple examples of exercises that will guide you and assist you in your work as a coach. The application and the e-books are available in Russian and English language.
With kind regards, Patrick van Leeuwen
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