
- 30+ FULL-TIME
COACHES - Coach Dave
- UEFA B license
- SAQ qualified trainer
- First Aid & CPR Qualified - Coach Billy
- Ex-goalkeeper
- UEFA A license
- First Aid & CPR Qualified - Coach Tom
- UEFA B license
- First Aid & CPR Qualified - Annual Coach
Training
Week - Coach Lukalu
- Ex-pro player
- Ex-national team DR Congo
- UEFA B license
- First Aid & CPR Qualified - Coach Aris
- UEFA B license
- First Aid & CPR Qualified - Coach Monty
- UEFA A license
- First Aid & CPR Qualified - Coach Eddie
- UEFA B license
- English FA youth module
- First Aid & CPR Qualified - Coach Training
Week
UEFA pro coach educator
Alan Walker running
our 2017 training week - Coach Austin
- Canadian C license
- First Aid & CPR Qualified
- Coach Henry
- AFC B license
- First Aid & CPR Qualified
- Coach Steve
- UEFA A License
- Qualified Futsal coach
- First Aid & CPR Qualified
coaches
We have more than 30 full-time coaches, and a similar number of part-time and assistant coaches.
Our coaches follow an approved coaching curriculum, overseen by our qualified senior coaching team. This ensures consistently high standards of coaching and safety.
We invest in our coaches, supporting them to improve their accredited qualifications. We also run regular, genuine coach training and improvement programmes.
APSS’s main advantage of any of our competitors is our professional development. We run regular internal workshops delivered by our senior coaching team, but we also invite high-quality educators to deliver courses for us. For example, since 2015:
Coach Training
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In Summer 2019 Matt Thomas, Senior Coach Educator with the Canadian Soccer Association, came to HK to run workshops for our coaches, focusing on developing grassroots players.
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Tottenham Hotspur Foundation coaches delivered staff training for APSS in both 2015 and 2017. Additionally, during Tottenham Hotspur’s first team friendly in Hong Kong in 2017, APSS organised events for the first team players and senior management at both Kellett School Kowloon Bay, and Wah Yan College Kowloon.
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In 2016 we contracted HKFA coach educators Matthew Pears and Tsang Wai Chung to run three different short courses for us, focusing on developing young players technically and athletically.
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In 2017, 15 APSS coaches attended a seminar by Nick Cox, Academy Operations Manager of Manchester United. This was organised with the HKFA, and focused on how the Club designs sessions for young players.
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In 2017, 18 & 19 we hired Rangers Youth Coaches to run workshops for our coaches sharing the club’s philosophy and methodology in developing young players.
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In 2017 we invited Hannover 96 youth coach Marco Weber to Hong Kong, where he delivered a workshop for our coaches sharing the philosophy of the Bundesliga club’s youth coaching system. He also ran training for some of our teams.
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In 2017 & 2018, Charlie Jackson, Manchester City Academy Coach, and founder of UEFA-endorsed “Matrix” training system, delivered workshops on his Matrix system to our coaches. Charlie also delivered some Matrix sessions to our elite players.
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In 2015 & 2017, Alan Walker – UEFA Pro-Coach Educator with the Irish Football Association delivered 3-day courses for our staff, introducing content delivered in UEFA courses for 7 and 11-a-side gameplay.
Child Protection
All our coaches are first aid trained, and all staff must pass the HK Police Sexual Conviction Record Check.
All staff:
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Have passed the HK Police Sexual Conviction Record Check.
http://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/11_useful_info/scrc.html
All full-time coaches:
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Attend a request for Data on Criminal Convictions at HK Police with a witness from APSS management.
https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/11_useful_info/aida.html
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Attend an annual child protection workshop designed and delivered by a Viva child protection advisor.
http://www.viva.org/inhk/
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Have first aid training, normally delivered by First Aid Plus Hong Kong.
http://www.firstaidplus.com.hk
See our code of conduct for coaches