Do you know the principles of session design?
Hello and welcome to our latest football coaching newsletter! This one has come through a little later than usual as we took time to celebrate Easter, Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. We're excited to share with you all the latest updates and insights to help you elevate your coaching game. In this edition, we'll be covering a wide range of topics that we hope will inspire you and your team. This week you’ll find out more about the principles of session design, a goal-setting method, Manchester united academy’s people-first approach, and much more.
The Top Ten
First up is Philip O’Callaghan on his 4 principles for session design. Session intentions, constrain to afford, representative learning design, and repetition with repetition. How m]any of these principles are in your sessions when you sit down to plan?
https://twitter.com/Mr_Tennis_Coach/status/1639976805326020608
One for both you and your players, Dan Go here outlining the Harada method of goal setting. You start by outlining your long-term goal and then major themes to improve that will get you there, then smaller goals to achieve those major themes. It’s a great way to break down a long-term goal into bite-sized achievable chunks.
Andrew Brownhills take on Sir Alex Ferguson’s take on how to become a successful manager from Gary Neville’s interview with him.
https://twitter.com/AndrewBrownhil/status/1639917023936524290
Thomas Tuchel is back in football management with Bayern, here is Futbol Therapist with an outline of Tuchel’s coaching methods
https://twitter.com/futboltherapist/status/1640069618776539138
mainly differential learning.
A big Twitter debate has been on for some time over whether teams and coaches fall into the positionism or relationism categories. Positionism is about players being in perfect positions and occupying the best space possible whereas relationism is about supporting the player on the ball and gaining advantages through overloads. Jon Mackenzie does a much better job than I of explaining this. https://medium.com/@jonmackenzie/taking-a-position-on-relation-in-football-bd6e0bee989a
Julian Khalili here challenging us to be uncomfortable with his question of what if we don’t do any isolated drills, passing patterns or tactical walk-throughs with young players in training.
https://twitter.com/JulianAzKhalili/status/1640439344438583299
Love the statement in this tweet from David Garcia “ Training team sports isn't about improving each individual in isolation. It's about improving each individual's ability to contribute to the team.” David outlines his team principles
Not sure if you’ve heard of Nick Cox, he’s the Academy director at Manchester United. Here he is talking to the Coaches voice team about how Manchester United approaches player development. You’ll be quite surprised by their people-first approach. The way it should be in my opinion. https://www.coachesvoice.com/cv/nick-cox-manchester-united-academy-director-interview/
Want to know what the latest trends are in coaching? Well, the Training Ground Guru team has 5 they have noticed. Hybrid roles, development managers, longer-term thinking clubs, more data and tech, and relationships. https://trainingground.guru/articles/five-trends-in-coaching-and-management
reflection is one of the keys to improving as a coach. UK Sport here with an infographic called the reflective practice loop.
https://twitter.com/_UKCoaching/status/1641045058974625794
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