Tips on how to be a succesful football coach please?

I am currently at college and I am doing sports coaching I am 7 weeks into my course and I am starting right from the bottom, I have done a few circuits which have been to advanced, so in a way thats good but in a way I am aiming to high. I intend very soon to start doing some FA courses, my goal/ambition is to one day be a football manager, I am also a Sunday league football referee, can that help my coaching in any way? I am only 18 so I suppose starting young means I have more time and more chance to go along way, I know Jose Mourinho wasn't a player and now look at him a world class manager, so its possible. Can anyone please with coaching knowledge/ experinece give me some advice/tips. Thanks

Just get your head down and learn all you can. Try reading some books of poeple like Fergie, Clough, these are a great read and also very helpful.

so do you want to be a football coach or a manager like Mourinho?
If you want to take the Mourinho route then you better be good at languages, he only got where he is because he could speak Portuguese, English and Spanish (amongst others) and translate for Bobby at Barca!

Yeah the latter, I would love to be the next Jose.

The best advice i can give is to read from books of coaches in sport as the principles of a good leader are the same.
I also like to watch DVD's like england rugby sweet chariot where its all behind the scenes and you can see clive woodward and his meetings and the competitiveness the team have to DO THERE BEST AND LET THE SCORE TAKE CARE OF ITSELF. Sorry im not shouting but i just thnk that bits really important bcause you cant do no more than your best. You'll find all the books and DVD's on amazon also look into business leaders and books on how kids learn or how we learn best.

Hope this gives you a few ideas

re: your refereeing: if you ever do your level 2 then you have to sit an exam on the laws of the game so refereeing will come in more than useful there!

Well im sorted then- I do French and Spanish

tres bien!

well when you make big in the Premiership remember me and give me an assistants job!

Club managers are old hat, these people now run the clubs and tend not to be involved with coaching.

To start coaching now you must have a qualification and the first step is the Leaders course which cost about £30 takes two days and is very very basic and easy, this allows you to coach kids up to 16 years of age. Then you must complete all the course for this including a first aid, coaching and coaching goal keepers, you cannot go for your class C badge without working your way up the ladder.

So forget being a manager and become a senior coach.

refereeing does help with coaching, and forget reading books get involved with a club watch and help much better you learn how to handle situations.