What badges??...please help

hi, can someone please tell what coaching badge an individual wud need to become an international coach/manager. Im not talking of nations such as england, brazil argentina because im pretty sure for the bigger nations their repective FA's wud look for the a Fifa pro qualification.

Im talking about nations such as napal, sri-lanka, Afganistan, mongolia, Honduras or even borats country.

If someone know please let me know

To work for any country you need the same qualifications mate, its a fifa rule

cheers mate that was very quick response, I suppose the only way round it is what the republic are doing with sir bobby and stuanton

not all countries are recognised by fifa as footballing nations - take the VIVA world cup - thats for all countries not recognised by fifa. so why would they be ruled by fifa and yet not recognised by them.

you need to ask someone a bit higher up than u are doing me thinks mate

There are about 6 countries in that viva world cup mate and they are countries like, monaco!! Now come on......

also its not a back door into the Premiership!

will need professional level experience just to get on the shortlist for any national role!

no offence ameer, but you are in dreamland if you think you are going to walk in through the back door like that. what level coach are you already by the way? What coaching experience do you have already? What management experience? and playing experience have you got?

I suppose if you are UEFA A and have been managing Accrington Stanley gaining them promotion to the Confrence and then the League you would be quite attractive to these countries. But if you have a bit of coaching experience at Sunday League level, you better join the queue. Plus the pay wont be that fantastic, otherwise they would have top managers breaking down the doors to get in there.

The only way around it is like what Staunton and SIR Bobby Robson are doing? I do not get that mate. SIR Bobby Robson is very very very experienced and you could probably write what he has not done or know about football the back of a postage stamp. Staunton is a very very experienced player who will have gained coaching experience on the way, oh and a former Republic Of Ireland international who has played in world cups you know. So if you are planning on doing it that way, I would keep about 30 years of your life free, unless you are already an international footballer? Or Gareth Southgate in disguise (who was also an international footballer, which doesnt automatically mean he is qualified to manage in the premiership, well unless you are a big wig at the Premier League).

To mange Argentina or Brazil, I would wait until your born again on that one. They dont just look for people with the right qualifications, they look for managers with a [beep!] load of experience, a few champions cup winners medals, maybe a world cup winners medal already, someone who is respected throughout the game and by the players. Someone who will know all the little tricks of the trade you or i would never have thought of in a million years at this stage. (Unless of course you are wanting the England job, where under achievement with a premiership club with lots of money, a micky mouse cup and a uefa cup final hammering, and a coaching job with an under achiving england world cup side and of course working along side alex ferguson will do it........again i think you should still put away about half a century of your life to get to that level though).

So, get in with a junior football team and plan for the long haul, cos its gonna take a long time to get through that back door in football. In the mean time i hear football manager 2007 is much better than championship manager.

Sorry to sound so negative, but it has to be said. I would love to manage a small countries football team, but i do not think my experience with my junior team would get me the job somehow. But forgive me if you have a UEFA Pro licence or anything and are indeed coaching at Accrington Stanley, it could be worth putting your application in, but expect a drop in wages.

Thank you for your reply rik1276, unfortunately I don’t currently posses any coaching badges, the question was posed to understand what it takes and your answer covers all of that. I just thought countries such Burma, India, Pakistan and extremely smaller nations may not require uefa A/pro license.

I also understand that Steve has plenty of years of playing experience and obviously sir bobby is one of the gr8's of the game, but from my understanding Steve does not hold the pro licences that is why he needed sir bobby to be with him.

Give me a few years and you will see my name up in lights.

Small country like India?

Brilliant!

Seriously though Ameer, in all respect mate you need to show a bit of respect to these countires before thinking you can manage them! I mean if you think they will be interested in you simply because you are based in England your in for a nasty surprise, the advice on here has been pretty good though. However, if you got yourself to say, UEFA "B" level which could be done in a few years you could probably get a countries Under 15's/16's sides, as unfortunately many of the countries listed have not got enough resources to get coaches like that. It worked for a mate of mine and he is now coaching at that level.

But you also have to remember India and these countries are not that poor anymore, it is just Football is not the number one sport. Yes I know of two people who went to Africa and coached underprivileged kids for a charity, they slowly worked up to the under 16 and 21 national teams.

They came back here with a CV, one ended up giving up coaching the other is now doing the rounds coaching kids in primary school.

In the top area of football it is not so much what you know as who you know.

Respect, I dont want to turn this into an arguement it was a simply question which was answered and thats that.

Ameer I didn't mean it in a bad way I was simply giving you my thoughts (coaches often do this unwelcomed )

Good luck with it all.

well ameer, just do not be under any illusions about the hard work it will take. get on your level 1 right away, its easy. then get some experience coaching youth teams in your area and take your level 2. the level 2 will give you more opportunities to get more coaching experience, then just keep going from there.

even though you will probably think level 1 is too easy, it just teaches you the basics that are important to know and of course give you your first step on that long long ladder. good luck.