Seattle Sounders FC Academy coach Sean Henderson recently completed the year-long Elite Formation Coaching License course.
In an effort to increase the quality of player development throughout the United States, Major League Soccer partnered with the French Football Federation back in 2012. The EFCL is a product of this union, and it’s the same coaching license that every French academy director is required to hold.
For Henderson, the EFCL course was a culmination of his 20 years of coaching youth soccer. He’d already completed all of his U.S. soccer coaching badges and, as a result, possessed a strong understanding of the game.