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Originally Posted by polak
So what's the deal with Iceland? Are these guys all in line for some big league contracts being thrown their way or is it the coaching?
How is this happening?
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They've thrown a tonne of money into coaching education.
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Part of the real success here is they have very educated coaches starting at five or six years of age.
Currently this nation of 335,000 has around 600 qualified coaches, 400 with Uefa B licences, or one per 825 people. To put this into context, in England this number falls to one per 11,000.
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Jason de Vos mentioned on the pregame that for comparison, Canada has one qualified coach per 58000 people.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...lars-lagerback