Week 1 - Welcome

The first of many... I hope

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for subscribing to the newsletter. I hope it brings you lots of little nuggests that will help you on your coaching journey.

Usually this will be out every Friday. Please let me know if you have any comments, feeback or know anyone to follow! Anyway enough of my rambling and on to the content

Top 10 of the week!

1. This one is from little while back but communication is so important as a coach, what are the words you use when decribing the different phases of the game to your players. Jamie has a great words but don’t forget to add the how, when and why.

2. Another topic to get you thinking. ‘move the ball to move your opponent’ or ‘move our players to move the opponent’

3. Although Covid-19 means we’re away from our players it’s also given us some great webiners for learning and development. Here are some that are coming this week

4. An interesting article here on looking at designing your practices. Link

5. Like this one from Gerard. Lots of content out at the moment, but if you’re feeling overwhelmed with it all then try his suggestion.

6. Did you miss th great webinar on the future of football ith the FA’s Pete Sturgess, well the recording is here

7. If you’re coaching older age groups and want to use the 4-2-3-1 formation and with better movement then this article may help

8. The FA have launched a new learning channel on YouTube!

9. Great article on what makes the best coaches. Take a moment to think about the best coach you had and what made them great.

10. The one thing Thomas Tuchal (current PSG coach) would change about coaching youth football

Top 3 Sports Psychology

1. Really interesting thread on bonding with your players. what do you do to connect?

2. Dan Abrahams is a great person to follow if you’re wanting some more information about how to help your players mentally. Here he talks about emotions and their effects. How can you help your players create positive ones?

3. As much as we want our players to be thiking, football football football. maybe it’s not the best for them mentally, socially and physically a great ted talk here on not specialising early.

Top 3 Sports conditioning

1. Great all round movement exercises for all players to help them with their acceleration and deceleration

2. some more at home execises for your players

3. As fun as Joe Wick’s work out are, they’re not P.E. follow Jeremy for more indoor and outdoor movement exercises.

Top 3 Analytics (analysis)

1. Goalkeeping is always difficult for most ‘outfield’ coaches to understand but John Harrison delves into the data he uses, what they mean and how they can influence practice

2. A nice write up about how teams are becoming more compact and what teh future solutions may be to unlocking thoses defenses. can you implement sessions that develop this?

3. Short snapshot of Ter Stegan being used as an extra man in the build up for possession for Barca. Can you help your goalkeepers become more than just someone who uses their hands?

That’s it for this week. I hope you enjoyed and all the articles and links made you think.

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See you on friday!

Andre