Where do I begin? The journey to the Marshall Islands – the first time – an interesting one! I won’t go back to the start, that’s been covered (a lot!) but I can give some context to my first trip out, ‘OUR’ first trip out, to Majuro. I say our as this is a collective …
Scandinavian Education – success into sports coaching…? You may be aware of the Scandinavian educational system and it’s approach to learning. If so, you will understand that it is one of the most successful in the world as a region with the highest portion of female learners with a Masters Degree (Denmark) and highest numbers …
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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 …
“Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I may remember, Involve me and I learn” – I have to disagree here. It’s a famous quote and it’s used a lot but looking at it, it doesn’t consider learning styles, learning preferences or individual needs. We as coaches are educators and for us to educate …
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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 …