UEFA Pro License
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The UEFA Pro License is a football coaching license that has since the turn of the millennium become the mandatory qualification for all European top flight managers. All current managers were set a deadline of 2010 to acquire the license or face losing their post.
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The course contains workshops involving topics from fitness to injury prevention and player agents to transfer protocols. There are three levels of progression, with each focusing on more in-depth detail. After each section applicants must take a written exam from a number of topics and successfully conduct a supervised training session.
Managerial heavyweights such as Sir Bobby Robson, Sir Alex Ferguson and Fabio Capello have lent their experience to course students over the years.
In spring 2006, Glenn Roeder was appointed caretaker manager of Newcastle United. After a significant improvement in results, and an accepted request for an extension of the maximum 6 week period (as Roeder did not have the license), an exemplary request was granted to approve him as full time manager under the condition he would aim for the license at the next available course starting in the summer of 2006. Roeder had previously been forced to abandon a pro license course half way through due to a brain tumor.
