Today I sent the following email to the UEFA media department:
Hello
Does UEFA have any mandatory minimum coaching qualifications for managers who take part in your competitions?
If a coach is still going through the coaching badges can that person be the manager of a team in UEFA club competitions like the Europa League?
Many thanks
Phil Mac Giolla Bháin
Their reply was prompt and here it is:
Dear Sir,
With regard to your query, we can generally refer you to the relevant articles of the UEFA Club Licensing Regulations:
http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Tech/uefaorg/General/02/56/20/15/2562015_DOWNLOAD.pdf
In particular, see below Articles 36, 37 and 40:
For any questions relating to specific cases, we kindly ask you to contact the respective national association.
Kind regards,
UEFA Media & Public Relations
Prompt and professional.
That is what I expect from the people at the UEFA media office.
Sadly the same courtesies are not extant at Hampden.
As regular readers will know I have been awaiting answers for many months on a matter pertaining to what the SFA knew about the HMRC investigation into the original Rangers.
Perhaps the chaps at Hampden think that I will Do Walking Away…
McAllister has a pro licence so he can take charge of the team in Europe can’t he?
Phil. This is a bit of an irrelevant subject. Club managers will be waived through if they are undertaking the license while in post and have the relevant under licences (uefa a and b etc) as it states in the rules. Also John james broached this subject last week also when it was a non issue. So the Sevcoites will be saying “move along, nothing to see here!! On this one.
Why didn’t you just ask them have sevco the license to play in Europe this year giving them all the rules and ffp they are breaking ?They seem to answer yo you but everyone else gets the usual runaround.State the facts to them and ask now when you got an open communication with them.
So SG in Uefa is assistant Coach to his SPFL assistant coach then?
Another switcheroo?
So does that mean that SG breaks the rules or not.
Reading 40.1.b he has started the course so is ok? Is that correct?
That seems to be correct and I notice that John James has taken down his material claiming that SG is not compliant with the UEFA rules.
That was a useful qustion and response Phil. It seems to mean that Stevie G meets the test. You would be serving your readers better if you were a bit more up front about it and said that instead of leaving it to be worked out.
Reading that, sounds like Sevco will be okay as SG has started his Prop license.
Unless of course they fail the FFP test 😀
The SFA fear when ink-stained wretches Do Journalism. Shame the majority actually do Do Walking Away.
Only in the shady world of football could someone get a top management job without suitable qualifications on the proviso that he/she is ‘ on the course’..
Can we imagine any other professional (properly) sphere such as doctor, teacher, lawyer, engineer etc being given top billing at their company on the strength of a few personal endorsements and a promo that they have started the course.
“No sir, I’m not a qualified doctor yet! But I’m on the first year medical course and have injected several oranges so far!”
There is also the assumption that the course is a guaranteed pass for Mr Gerrard. I tend to fell that on ANY course/exam.. if there aren’t some failures then there is something wrong with the integrity of the course in the first place.
But then… Scottish football, journalism and integrity are not things that tend to gravitate to one another anyway as we know.
Does the “at least started” qualification get him off?
Phil – you are a thorn in the flesh to those luminaries charged with the Scottish game. You, sir, are the proverbial rottweiler with an elastic band fastened tightly around its willy!! It’s fair to assume that the rottie is not best pleased at being in such a predicament, and woe betide anybody stupid enough to put themselves in close proximity to the jaws of the beast in such an agitated state. ?
Article 40 (‘has at least started’) will be the get-out for Gerrard and exactly why he’s at the U21 tournament at the moment.
A coach need not necessarily be the team manager?
Gerrard can be the manager whilst the “head coach” who oversees the training regime may be someone else.
That is open interpretation unless a “head coach” is defined as the manager by those same rules/regulations.
NB The Sevvies no longer operate a system that utilises a Club Manager. Their Director of Football operates with overall control & appoints a Head Coach to run the team, whereas a manager has overall control. E.g. Brendan Rodgers is the manager of CFC & decides on all footballing matters with his Pro License tucked nicely away! Sevvie G is merely another head coach stooge on the G&SL train wreck of failed managers & now coaches. Marvellous!
well we know 100% that Mr Gerrard does not hold a UEFA Pro Licence as he has just started taking the 1 year course. I guarrentee they will still play in this season’s Europa League though, as since when have rules ever meant anything to the club that plays out of Govan.