the discussion in here about coaching is interesting. I am one of those dads who has played northern prem league but never had any coaching experience. Everything I coach my kids is what I found useful when I played from the good coaches I had and from what I hear, see and read (there are a lot of good things our there).
Our club has a "coaches" courses but to be honest it was Roger Wilkinson trying to get rugby dads to do the most complicated drills for 9 year olds and no one got it.
So what courses does NZF or Auckland Football run? Our club, Fencibles, doesn't promote these to my knowledge.
So I fall into the category of well intentioned father who considers himself well versed in matters football but probably 10 years behind the times. But there are still the majority of coaches of kids at our club lining kids up behind cones doing drills from 50 years ago.
Where do you find out more?
You may need a FAX machine.
But seriously, This is may NZF problems. I heard this the second time, a Dad who want to coach his team better but got handed out some random weblinks. Should not every club coach get a handbook of how to train kids? They don't have to invent that, just buy it from someone that fits, maybe not form the England.
Update: Took me 3 sec to type in Google to find ALL you need, sorry in german, just needed a translation and voila! you can play like The Mannschaft