FA Announce new guidelines...
The FA have finally had their new guidelines for the return of competitive grassroots sport ratified by the government, meaning the county FAs can start planning the return of leagues and in turn we can start planning the return to normal training, tournaments and games. I’ve linked the details below in the top 10. Also second to last call to fill in the survey on session planning here if you haven’t done so already. Right on to the top 10!
This weeks Top 10
The FA has released it's guidlines on starting competitive grassroots and non league football
Good blog post from coaching the coaches here around how to translate ecological dynamics to grassroots coaching. Key takeaways see yourself as an environmental architects and continually adjust our environment or create variability around tasks
Ben Bartlett here showing how to implement a constraints led approach to coaching.
Interesting model here from David Baird. It's a four step model to enable decision making in your sessions. do you apply some of these already? could you use this to translate into your drills/sessions?
@SamHolmshaw_MSc @PeterPrickett @_COACHlife @JoshuaSmithh @CoachCraigScot1 @ItsYourGame @PlanItCoach @BlaineMcKenna77 @Dan_Walker9 @dansteele23 @FowerakerE @TacticalThinker @movementcoachkm Would appreciate any thoughts on the #PracticeThroughPlay resource I recently pulled together. It has some tips throughout which I think lines up with what is being discussed here and is aimed at grassroots coaches. 1 example page shown here.
Peter here with his eight lessons in goal scoring. Here looked back on eight of the most profilic top league goal scoring teams in recent memory to see if there were common themes, apparantly there were.
Facinating study on the effect of match status on physical or techincal activities of the players. i.e. Will winning a match mean you run more or less and perform your technical actions better or worse. they found that winning mean't covering mroe distance but lower intensity, however technical performance wasn't affected.
if you ever wanted to know how professional teams are using analysis to look into players, I would say this is something that comes pretty close. Have a read and let me know what you think.
Worth watching if you haven't already. A discussion around Bukayo Saka's development journey.
Dan Abrahams on what he feels is the biggest killer of performance.....Mood. We've all been there with players who just aren't in the right 'mood' to play whether that be too lathagic, angry, flat etc. learn how to help them manage their mood.
Whilst not from a football (soccer) coach this is a great podcast episode on optimising performance during a disruption like a pandemic. Something we're all going through.
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