Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? (Prompts – what is your football journey? What is your current role?) My journey has been quite unconventional to say the least, I was coaching in Asia before I arrived to Spain, I had a straight decision in my mind at the time, head back to …
We…. Are….Back!!! The interviews took a little break but we are back with a ‘Gooden’ – Ben Gooden, in fact! Ben is currently in Anguilla but he can explain about his role and journey to date… Enjoy! Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? My coaching journey (like most people) started out just …
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? When I was in my teens and still at school, I began creating tactical analysis online in the format of articles and videos, and used my twitter account to promote the content. I found a real passion for football tactics and analysis, and my colleagues at …
Happy Monday everyone! This is a session that I have delivered previously to a range of groups: PE lessons, Advanced Youth and U23’s with professional players – thankfully, all enjoyed it! It’s a SSG which encourages: Attacking, Defending, Transition, Communication, Positioning/Movement, Overloads/Underloads, Finishing, Decision Making, Creativity and fun(!) It starts with a 2v2 on 4 …
This weeks interview comes with excellent GK coach, Tony McMullen who is currently working in Cambodia following successful roles in a range of countries. Enjoy… Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? My name is Tony McMullen, I’m currently the First Team GK Coach at Visakha FC who play in the Cambodian Premier League. Before …
As part of our new community group on Twitter, myself, Ross from Tactical Thinker and Temisan from Become Excel are choosing topics to 1) test each other and 2) offer insight to a range of topics to our community members. Check out our twitter pages for the group link. This was a good one to …
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This weeks interview comes from Ian Brooks, currently living in Aland… enjoy! Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? My journey starts similarly to others loving the game but not going to be a player so taking my level 1 and 2 before 17 alongside a BTEC in sport and working for Chelmsford …
This weeks Q+A comes from Dylan Barrett, a British coach currently working in Canada at Burnaby FC. This is a club that has grown close to me due to working with them in their previous name of Mountain United FC having developed a game model with their TD, fellow Brit, Lee Tregonning (still waiting for …
Looking through the sessions that I have posted, I realised that there wasn’t much for defending, so I traced back through my trusty black book and came across a session I had delivered to a U23 group… Below, I have put the game based part on display for you to try, amend, ignore – whatever …
Below is a transition game that covers coaching points from Transition to Attack as well as Transition to Defend. There is a game based approach to both parts of the session including a couple of variations and adaptations. Hopefully you can adapt and progress the sessions accordingly to suit your own groups. Let me know …
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