Jacques Crevoisier has outlined his vision for the future of Bermuda football in a coaching manual that will be published in the coming weeks.The Frenchman, who has been on the Island this week in his consultancy role with ABC Soccer School, will also produce three further parts to the coaching aid later this year providing a roadmap for improving football in Bermuda from grassroots to elite level.Crevoisier had originally been asked by ABC director Henrik Schroder to perform the task, but its influence has already expanded beyond the school with clubs across the Island asking for the World Cup winner’s imput.“The idea is to try to help the coaches,” said Crevoisier. “In fact I met many people here, I was in many clubs, Somerset, North Village, BAA. The idea is to help the coaches and make their job more comfortable.“Why we do that? At the beginning it was for ABC, and we said, ‘maybe if some people would like to be part of it, even BFA coaches I met them also, why not?’. Because, for ABC, the idea, when I was talking with Henrik was ‘Jacques, what must we do to improve the level of football?”The result, of that not so simple question, is a manual that starts by identifying the main characteristics of football in Bermuda - ease on the ball, indiscipline, attack without thought, lack of decision making - and progresses through several stages including outlining a successful coaching stratergy.“If you want to change things you must first have a plan, a vision, a philosophy,” said Crevoisier. “What I want to do for ABC, will be to have better level of players, to have good education programme, try to correct the defaults of the Bermuda players who are a little bit, sometimes, not dicsiplined enough, not collective enough, not defensive enough, so that is a plan, a vision, a philosophy.“That’s the first point. The second point, if you have that, you need a project. What do I do, how many years, I am here, I want to go here, that is my project. Then you need a programme. What do I do with under-10, under-12, under-14, and the under-16. How many trainings a week, how many trainings a year, how many competitions, what do we do in April/May, when the football is finished. That is a programme.“And then the last point, and the point that I’m most involved (in), is coaches’ education. Because, most of the coaches here, they never had courses, training for them. So they were players, and then, somebody said ‘Hey you, you are the coach now’. It’s a job, you must understand many, many things.”What though would influence a man of Crevoisier’s undoubted talents to come to Bermuda, when he is in demand with the likes of Arsenal, Monaco, not to mention UEFA and FIFA.“I have attended more than 2000 games, as a player, coach, pundit, UEFA observer, football has been every day of my life,” he said. “Why I am happy to come to Bermuda? I had a warm welcome, they are passionate about football, with a good football culture. It’s an exciting experience, I spent eight-and-a-half hours discussing football with coaches on Tuesday.“It’s completely different, when you are coaching to highest level, it’s interesting to come back to basic level, to see what the people have in mind. It’s unusual, the manual was a hard task, it’s not my native language and it took me all winter to do.“But the people are really passionate, and wanting to improve, which is also exciting.”Drawing on his experience as the man responsible for UEFA’s grassroots football programmes in 53 countries, and with the observations of Richard Calderon, Robert Calderon and Andrew Bascome as his starting point, Crevoisier’s book will provide a guide for coaches that want it.“The first book will be printed in the coming weeks, and in this book you will find many things. First chapter looks at the characteristics of the Bermuda player, and you have to start there, and I didn’t write that, I asked Richard Calderon, Robert Calderon, Andrew (Bascome), what do you think?“They said ‘too focused on technical ability, dribbling and carrying the ball, players at ease with the ball, offensively orientated, but average passing game with not enough support for the ball carrier. Lack of discipline in general, poor collective game, lack of decision making. Game philosophy too focused on winning, but without a stratergy.“Not very positive in fact, but, you can change all that. And how can you change all that, by beginning with the under-10s. You begin there, in each club, you are severe on the defensive aspect of the team, not give your ball away stupidly. In France or in England we would never accept what we see here.”The second book then will provide drills and skills for coaches to use and adapt for their individual clubs. Not that Crevoisier claims to have all the answers, he says coaching is about always learning.Crevoisier plans to be back on the Island in September when he is hoping to run a variety of coaching workshops for anyone who wants to attend.“We don’t force anyone to come, but if they want to come, ok. Here what is good is that there is a passion for football, there is a good football culture. I would even say a good ‘English’ football culture with its commitment.”