Free · Openly accessible · Worldwide
Coaching has
many dimensions.
Football can have a strong impact on people, on and off the field. We want to help change how coaches around the world teach the game. Sharing Goals is a free coaching manual that covers every aspect of player development. It puts emotional and social competencies where they belong: as the foundation for better technical, physical, cognitive and tactical performance.
Published by Football for Worldwide Unity e.V. — transforming football coaching education since 2010.
What the manual is
Performance and personality belong together.
A practical framework for football coaching. It combines technical, tactical and physical training with the deliberate development of emotional and social competencies, with age-specific learning objectives and activities that fit into your regular training sessions.
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Download the manual, chapter by chapter
Every chapter is its own PDF, so you only take what you need to training. Free and instantly available.
Introduction
Introduction to Sharing Goals
PDF · 5.5 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Social competencies
Introduction to social competencies
PDF · 3.2 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Communication
PDF · 5.4 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Trust
PDF · 6.3 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Compassion
PDF · 5.8 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Conflict management
PDF · 6.0 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Leadership
PDF · 6.0 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Emotional competencies
Introduction to emotional competencies
PDF · 3.3 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Creativity
PDF · 7.3 MB · Updated 9 Oct 2026
Coming soon
Self-confidence
Integrity
Self-control
Self-reflection
Focus
Grit
Motivation
Coping with emotions
Goal setting
All files: PDF · English · free to download and print.
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We support coaches and organisations who make the difference on the ground.
Football for Worldwide Unity e.V. is a registered non-profit association in Germany, founded in 2010 after a visit to the Cape Flats of Cape Town, South Africa. Since then we have worked alongside numerous partner organisations and federations in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Brazil, the USA and Germany — supporting existing clubs and organisations in making their coaching better and more impactful.
The Sharing Goals Manual is free and openly accessible, because we believe in equal chances for everyone.
We follow the motto: “Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Values, Sharing Goals”.
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