Abstract
The purpose of this study is to determine scientific and theoretical prerequisites of the problems in forming football managers’ professional competences under conditions of integrated training in higher education settings. In modern pedagogical science the disagreement, related to the basic and applied knowledge in the structure of professional competences of physical education pedagogues, is not deliberated as a new phenomenon. Competences exemplify the knowledge, abilities, and skills applied by a specialist for a successful job. Future specialists get their initial abilities and skills while studying in higher education settings. And mainly there they can gain maximum amount of capabilities and skills that are necessary for a competent specialist. It is impossible to imagine wide-range development of modern football without preparing new types of managers equipped with the latest leading and management skills and productive technologies that completely fit with the recent tendencies in emerging multilevel educational system. Despite the considerable success of high traditional physical education schools, modern football experiences enormous lack of competent specialists in football sphere that demands specific scientific researches and designing new models of professional training appropriate to contemporary requirements on individual, social, and employer sides. There are great opportunities of management but, obviously, modern practice and teaching graduates in high football schools (for both, undergraduates and masters) are not adequate to its dynamic progress and quality prerequisites of their preparation. Many young specialists of the current position appear to be insufficiently prepared to solve real professional tasks. According to employers, undergraduate students are particularly demanded additional preparation of professional work and contribution of significant expenses of their adjustment to direct conditions of football practice. There are many researchers who paid special attention to this current issue in their studies. On the basis of synthesizing large amounts of literature resources, we assume that the components of scientific and theoretical prerequisites of forming professional competences of football managers under conditions of integrated training in higher education settings are accepted as following concepts: a conception of professional competences of managers and its classification; a model of professional competences of modern managers in the context of globalization; pedagogical conditions of professionally-significant personal qualities of future coach-teachers; a conception of professional competences of pedagogue-trainers in sport; a functional activity based approach in formation of professional competences of managers; a process of developing professional competences of coach-trainers; a formation model of competences of future coaches in creating a positive socio-psychological atmosphere in their teams. In the context of higher education settings, it is necessary to create an effective reflection of strategies on learning and teaching future specialists, forwarded to form their professional competences as managers, whose professional activities adapt to different circumstances. Future specialists should acquire abilities to organize trainings that involve compulsory level of information, capabilities to use information, and development of managing powers. It is important to create pedagogical environment for students to assimilate their knowledge about managing football trainings. Allocating a special block of sport performance management as a selected type of sport in a curriculum of sport colleges and universities can enhance management competences of future specialists in sport and, particularly, in football activities.