You have missed my point completely. I did not say that certificate courses should be ignored, I simply said that rather on waiting on someone to organise things for your benefit that you should seek to help yourself first. Why wait to be sent to a training course? Something I've learned in the working world is that initiative is favoured and taking the initiative to observe a vastly more experienced coach in operation with the national team of the country can almost certainly help a coach more than it can hurt him. If you are the coach of Jabloteh (for eg) why wouldn't you want to see what your players are doing in national training? If nothing else you can appreciate what is expected of them from the national team coach and in turn get the other players in the club to start to play towards achieving similar standards.
Is all training that you get on the job formal? Don't you also observe senior or more experienced people and how they operate? Further to that, after all the degrees and certificates a person can't have don't potential employers also look at experience? Again, as important as certification is there are other aspects to developing coaching skills that need to be done outside of the "classroom".
dwolfman, local coaches have more local knowledge than beenhakker. they know their players more than beenhakker. beenhakker knows the international game more than local coaches. there may be technical aspects in the international game that could be applied to the local game but i really think the value beenhakker provides to local coaches is how to adapt their coaching to cope with the international game,
not how to bring the international game to the local game.
no doubt there is an overlap in the problems that local coaches and beenhakker face but i think (a) their resources are different so solutions available to beenhakker would not be available to local coaches and (b) the player capabilities are different.
i think it makes sense for LP to assess where local football is first, determine their
immediate technical needs and get the appropriate level of coaching to bring the game along. i think if LP did this, he would not be asking someone of beenhakker's experience to conduct the technical seminars. there is a gap of significant size between the local league and the places where beenhakker has been. however, i think the seminar is a good idea because at the very least they getting something with the money they paying beenhakker.