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I'm reading how the Chelsea Manager may not be accepted because he doesn't have a "UEFA pro license" and ManU(for some reason) are opposing any dispensationary period for Grant.
Not a Chelsea fan by the way, but why on earth is this license needed? If the club are satisfied he can manage without this license why are the premier league any different? Why must this guy have to do a year's course before he can manage here? It all seems ridiculous to me.
Thoughts on this or does anyone know why this license is so essential?
Because the FA want to maintain a certain quality in the league, and thus need a standard to measure the quality of managers. Same reason you need a license to practice anything really.
I thought the news story and headline 'OMG UNITED VS GRANT' on BBC about specifically United opposing it was basically complete rubbish? because we're doing nothing different than our approach to the Southgate/Roeder cases (which they do actually go on to mention in the article)
There was a good point made in the Times today in that Grant has been a coach now for nearly 20 years.
He practised mainly in Israel, which is part of WAFER, yet in all this time he has never once applied for this Pro-licence.
The story attributes this lack of application to the simple fact that he has never thought himself to be in a position to coach a top flight team.
Hardly the most reassuring of situations.
Originally posted by ACou2000:
I thought the news story and headline 'OMG UNITED VS GRANT' on BBC about specifically United opposing it was basically complete rubbish? because we're doing nothing different than our approach to the Southgate/Roeder cases (which they do actually go on to mention in the article)
well it is specifically us, in that in the other two cases there were 19 votes for, and only us voting against, so this will likely be the same.
Originally posted by Docker:
There was a good point made in the Times today in that Grant has been a coach now for nearly 20 years.
He practised mainly in Israel, which is part of WAFER, yet in all this time he has never once applied for this Pro-licence.
The story attributes this lack of application to the simple fact that he has never thought himself to be in a position to coach a top flight team.
Hardly the most reassuring of situations.
Quote:
Avram Grant was appointed as Jose Mourinho's successor last week although it is not clear whether he holds a valid Uefa Pro licence certificate. Grant does hold a coaching qualification from his native Israel but Uefa has yet to sign the endorsement agreement under which that nation can award Pro licences; the European body is now trying to ascertain whether Grant's qualification is of an equivalent standard.
So reading between the lines, it seems that he hold Israels version of the Pro Licence, bit it has not yet been ratified by UEFA.
UEFA pro license 
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