Criteria for the tittle of senior coach in Vietnam

Criteria for the tittle of senior coach in Vietnam (Internet image)

1. What is senior coach?

According to Clause 1, Article 2 of Circular 07/2022/TT-BVHTTDL, a senior coach is a professional title of a sports officer with a title code of V.10.01.01.

In addition, the professional titles of physical training and sports officers include head coach, coach and instructor.

2. Criteria for the tittle of senior coach in Vietnam

2.1. General standards of professional ethics for the title of senior coach in Vietnam

Specifically, in Article 3 of Circular 07/2022/TT-BVHTTDL, the general standards of professional ethics for the title of senior coach include the following:

- Passion for the profession, enthusiasm, responsibility, and meeting deadlines and quality standards with assigned work.

- Being forthright, honest, and objective; working scientifically; having clear opinions; maintaining a polite, modest, and proper demeanor when dealing with others; respecting colleagues; consciously combating wrongdoing and negative behavior; practicing thrift; and combating waste.

- Having a spirit of solidarity, positivity, initiative and good coordination with colleagues in performing assigned tasks.

- Having a sense of learning and training to improve quality, qualifications and capacity, expertise and professionalism.

2.2. Specific criteria for the title of senior coach in Vietnam

(1) Standards of qualifications for training and retraining

- Having a university degree or higher with a training discipline or major relevant to the discipline or field of physical training and sport;

- Having a certificate of standard training for professional titles of public employees specialized in physical training and sports.

(Clause 2, Article 4 of Circular 07/2022/TT-BVHTTDL)

(2) Standards of competence, expertise and professionalism

- Firmly grasp the party's guidelines and guidelines, policies, and state laws on physical training and sports, and develop high-achievement sports;

- Understand physical education theories and methods, as well as sports training theory; firmly grasp and regularly update techniques, tactics, technical and tactical development trends in the country and around the world;

- Have knowledge of education, psychology, biomedicine, exercise and sports, nutrition, use of adjuvant drugs and regulations on doping prevention and control in sports training and competition;

- Master and properly apply the rules of the sport's competition; the charter, organization and operation regulations of the national and international sports federations;

- Know first aid for injuries to athletes in training and sports competitions;

- Have the ability to direct and organize coordination with colleagues in professional activities to improve the quality of sports training;

- Have basic information technology skills, using foreign languages or using ethnic minority languages for officials working in ethnic minority areas according to job position requirements.

(Clause 3, Article 4 of Circular 07/2022/TT-BVHTTDL)

3. Duties of senior coach in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 4 of Circular 07/2022/TT-BVHTTDL, the senior coach is responsible for performing the following tasks:

- To assume the prime responsibility for formulating long-term, medium-term and annual plans for sport development; training plans and programs of national sports teams, youth teams and sports teams of provinces, centrally run cities, branches;

- To preside over or participate in the selection and management of athletes; direct technical, tactical, physical training, psychological and will training for athletes; directing athletes in charge of participating in national and international sports competitions;

- To preside over the implementation of research and application of science and technology and modern training methods in the selection and training of athletes;

- To be responsible for implementing regulations on ensuring safety and hygiene in training, competition, medical examination for athletes;

- To actively research and improve methods for improving training quality;

- To forecast the ability of athletes under their supervision to develop sports achievements and achieve competitive success.

- To coordinate the implementation of political and ideological education, moral qualities, and cultural learning for athletes; to care for their spiritual lives, health, and nutritious diet in accordance with the sport's training and competition requirements; and to provide accommodations and rest conditions that will allow athletes to practice and compete in good health.

Thanh Rin

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