Farsley Celtic manager Lee Sinnott has achieved a top qualification from the Football Association.
The former Bradford City, Huddersfield Town, Watford and Crystal Palace player has received the FA Academy Director's Licence.
The qualification means he is now able to manage academies within professional football clubs. Sinnott took part in an extensive training programme, which included a one-week residential course at the National Sports Centre, Lilleshall, Shropshire and a two-day visit to the PSV Eindhoven football club in Holland.
He also had to complete a 6,000-word project and deliver a presentation to an FA panel. His project compared the youth academy operations and technical games development programme at PSV and Leeds United.
"It was a very informative course which opens your mind to the new ideas being used by football clubs, especially the European clubs," said Sinnott, who already holds the UEFA Advanced Coaching Licence and the FA Youth Coaches Certificate.
Sinnott is already qualified to manage Coca-Cola League clubs. Now he intends to take the UEFA Pro Licence which would qualify him to manage football clubs in the Premiership.
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