"entrenador de base"

English translation: youth-team coach / manager

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Spanish term or phrase:entrenador de base
English translation:youth-team coach / manager
Entered by: Laureana Pavon

17:44 Nov 30, 2014
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation
Spanish term or phrase: "entrenador de base"
I'm wondering what you would call an "entrenador de base" in English (US).

The term is from an article in a Spanish newspaper.

I live in Uruguay and I'm not even sure what it means, as the position probably has a different name here in the Rio de Plata.

What would this position be called in a US soccer team?

Thanks

Link to the article: http://www.elperiodicomediterraneo.com/noticias/deportes/and...
Laureana Pavon
Uruguay
Local time: 21:30
youth-team coach (manager)
Explanation:
I think coach would be more appropriate for a US team.
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Veronica Sardon
Argentina
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Gracias!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2youth-team coach (manager)
Veronica Sardon
4skills coach
TravellingTrans
3 +1manager/trainer in the lower leagues/divisions
Neil Ashby
3grass roots coach
peter jackson


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skills coach


Explanation:
an entrenador de base is someone who teaches basics and fundamentals to kids or also professional atheletes, in Spanish:

La labor principal de un entrenador de base es la de educar a los niños en una serie de valores, tales como la solidaridad, el compañerismo, la amistad y el ...
Algunas de las cosas, que entiendo como mucho más importantes que saber de táctica y técnica, y que un buen entrenador de base

so it is someone who teaches the fundamentals and basics of the game

this is someone who is usually a coach as opposed to a manager or head coach, so examples in English:

NFL Football Skills Coach / Sports Performance Coach.
If ever there was a call to arms for multi-skills coach this is it.
As your sport psychologist or mental skills coach there are few facts about sport psychology, performance psychology, and mental skills training that could help ...
John Coumbe-Lilley said the best part of his role as "Sport Psychology Consultant/Skills Coach" for the USA Women's Rugby ...
Former All Black named Blues skills coach
James Howiantz. Somerset. James is an FA Skills coach with the Somerset team.

TravellingTrans
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
manager/trainer in the lower leagues/divisions


Explanation:
or "managers in basement divisions"

Laureana, if your link is the actual article you are translating, then from the context it seems to refer to a manager of teams in lower divisions or lower age categories:

"Y ha pasado de la noche a la mañana, de técnico de base a la Bundesliga. Tras un año con niños, pasó a dirigir al TSV Havelse, de la Regionalliga Nord y el pasado ejercicio tomó las riendas del modesto Paderborn 07, al que ha ascendido a la máxima categoría. ¡Y ahora es entrenador Bundesliga!"

This implies that the "técnicos de base" are managers of full teams (as opposed to just training a specific area) in lower divisions of the league. My reading of it.

Aspirar a ser entrenador profesional no es sencillo y el camino por recorrer es duro. Aunque todo radica, como en el caso de Breitenreiter, en que confíen en los técnicos de base.

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Laureana - to be honest I've never heard of the term before, I'm just going on your link.
I don't think a "técnico de base" forms part of the training/management team, he/she IS the general trainer/manager but of a not-so-important team, as the team is only semi-professional (not top division anyway) or still quite young.
I hope it helps but it's not very concrete.

Neil Ashby
Spain
Local time: 02:30
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Native speaker of: English
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Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks. Would you say that the term "técnico de base" is usual in Spanish football? Do all teams have a "técnico de base"?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Juan Jacob: Me inclino por esta. "...de fuerzas básicas..." en México. O "de la cantera".
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  -> Gracias Juan!
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grass roots coach


Explanation:
Another possibility. For people who train kids, which is what the article is referring to, I think.

http://mhysc.org/Default.asp?id=club-news&l=1&a=article&cid=...

washingtonpremiersoccer.com/forum/index.php?topic=22601.10;wap2




Dec 9, 2013 - Everywhere else in the world, soccer is the number one sport ... The gap between the top of US Soccer and the grass roots coach is wide and ...

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Blowing my own trumpet!!

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/sports_fitness_...

peter jackson
Spain
Local time: 02:30
Native speaker of: English
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
youth-team coach (manager)


Explanation:
I think coach would be more appropriate for a US team.

Veronica Sardon
Argentina
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Gracias!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: Exactly: right on both points. "Base" is youth teams.
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  -> Thanks, Charles!

agree  juanathan:
3 days 1 hr
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