Week 4 - Decision making, Game models, Leadership and innovations
Hi Everyone,
We’re now into the month of May with no real new on when people will be allowed to return to work let alone when we’ll be allowed to coach face to face again with our players. As other countries return to normal in the east it will be interesting to see how their measures work when it comes to sports. Anyway enough of the ramble and on to the interesting stuff…
Top 10 of the week
Thought of the day from Dan Abraham. How do you ask your players to be emotionally on the pitch? It doesn’t always have to be positive.
Great piece of research here on the differences of time spent on decision making activities between English, German, Spanish and Portuguese coaches at academy level.
Leadership in sport article on the stages of learning.
Always interesting to see other federation game models. If you have anything from the German, Spanish or Dutch FA please let me know
Not strictly applicable for coaches in FDP or YDP but Maybe in the PDP. Do we see the game developing strategic sets of teams within a squad for certain types of games/score lines?
https://www.northyardanalytics.com/blog/2015/10/05/a-data-driven-approach-to-squad-usage/
One touch vs two touch in SSG. An evidence based approach to which give players the most duels, touches, passes and also more sprints/higher heart rate if wanting to use it for fitness?
Slides from FA GK coach Tony Elliot on goalkeeper communication during the game. Should help your keeper and yourselves know what and when a goalkeeper should be saying
a nice story on the journey of Manchester United coach Martyn Pert. From being released at 20 to ending up at United. With trips around the world and meeting Bielsa and former NBA great Shaquille O’Neal
A good article from the Barca innovation hub on giving feedback during training and how much information players can take in. Higher level means more information lower level means less. Might seem obvious but it’s now backed up by evidence
Kevin Nicholson here with a question on what football will look like in 2030 and what type of players we may see developed. Whilst Liverpool may be at the forefront of the recruitment data Barca are ahead in using data for everything else as shown by their innovation hub
Good academies ask: "What will the game be like in 2030? What qualities should we therefore develop in players? How to nurture potential & enable them to be elite performers?" Talent development systems play a key part in clubs shaping a positive future.
Other interestng articles this week
Have a look at how Red Bull have set up their academy in Austria. Amazingly technical with the most advanced techniques. I do wonder what it might be like as a player who doesn’t make it going back to a normal football club
https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/theredbulletin/red-bull-academy-future-of-football
Amazing thread again from John Harrison. This time on parry saves from goalkeepers. Liverpool’s Allison is really good!
A GKs handling ability is often not discussed & rarely statistically analysed. I have created a handling model which uses NSExG to assess how likely parries are to present the rebounds & thus goals. #Alisson has only presented #LFC’s opposition with an extra 0.98NSExG!
I hope you’ve enjoyed this weeks articles and they’ve made you think. Again keep your feedback coming in. It’s great knowing you’re enjoying the articles and also where I can find new places for content. As always hit the share buttons below to share this post but also the newsletter.
