The Football Coaching Thread

[MARKakaJIM]

I suppose there could be a bit of a double edged sword to it.

It seems that the later developers currently end up with better tactical/technical skills as they focus on that as a means to overcome their earlier developing, bigger/stronger rivals but if you're leveling off the playing field physically then the big lads will have to brush up on the technical/tactical side as they can't just bully people out of games anymore but will the smaller lads put so much effort into working on those technical/tactical skills when they're not being bullied out of games all the time? I can see a mix of the two approaches being used to good effect, having the even playing field will encourage growth in certain aspects whilst having the challenge of competing against people who have different physical abilities will grant difference challenges and encourage them to learn other means to overcome those problems.

There was something else mentioned in that thing I was reading yesterday, think it was on the BBC so i'll try and find it.

When they mentioned the high numbers of Q1 lads in academies due to their physical development they also had a similar, yet reversed, pattern higher up in the game, might have been international players I think where there was a significantly higher proportion were Q3 and Q4, so perhaps that early physical disadvantage had provided an challenge where players had pushed themselves to improve elsewhere and become better players overall.

 

[YoungWolf]

Nick Levett discusses that last point here a bit

http://youthfootballdevelopment.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/why-im-pleased-my-son-is-born-in-may.html?m=1

I think people need educating on the matter mainly, and to be better trained for what to look for if they are a scout especially

 

[MARKakaJIM]

This was the thing I was reading.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35054310

That point in there is actually a quote from Levett.

 

[Johnny75]

Nick Levett discusses that last point here a bit

http://youthfootballdevelopment.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/why-im-pleased-my-son-is-born-in-may.html?m=1

I think people need educating on the matter mainly, and to be better trained for what to look for if they are a scout especially

The last sentence is key to me, the standard of scouting is so disparate it's shocking. The issue really is there is no wrong or right way to scout, what do you judge on and against whose criteria? Education could be the right way to go but producing identikit scouts is most certainly the wrong way to go as you'd have the same problem as now but with a set up that's impossible to change.

 

[Lord Knows]

15 All Black principles, How Culture Inspires and Drives Talent.

http://ylmsportscience.blogspot.fr/2015/12/the-first-xv-15-all-black-principles.html

 

[YoungWolf]

http://www.theguardian.com/football...senal-illusion-flawed-system?CMP=share_btn_tw

 

[Lord Knows]

Ranieri - players were wary of an Italian coming in. Thought approach would be overly tactical

I told them I trusted them. That I wouldn’t talk about tactics a lot. For me the important thing was that they run a lot.

 

[Lord Knows]

Gary Neville asked about set plays and reveals "in 20 years at United we never practiced set pieces".

 

[YoungWolf]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...cence-sparks-probe-call-biased-complaint.html

This is unfortunately something I hear about a lot with ex professionals. Some think it's fair but to me it's bollocks.

 

[Lord Knows]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...cence-sparks-probe-call-biased-complaint.html

This is unfortunately something I hear about a lot with ex professionals. Some think it's fair but to me it's bollocks.

Its unfortunate for the profession that ex players because of profile gain awards without the hours of effort or quality required. It undermines the whole system with people looking to appoint a coach not knowing who are of the required standard. There must be some ex professionals willing to do the required hours to become good coaches who find themselves caught up in this profile before ability bollocks.

 

[Johnny75]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...cence-sparks-probe-call-biased-complaint.html

This is unfortunately something I hear about a lot with ex professionals. Some think it's fair but to me it's bollocks.

It's absolutely unfair and I agree with you. I hope somebody takes it to court and bans this practise, the FAW have been doing it for years. The only one I can think would complete his A license very quickly would be Martinez so that name shouldn't be in the article.

I don't see why an ex-pro should be fast tracked, after all it's not your ability to kick a ball that is being tested.

 

[big mean bunny]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...cence-sparks-probe-call-biased-complaint.html

This is unfortunately something I hear about a lot with ex professionals. Some think it's fair but to me it's bollocks.

Complete and utter horsecock and something that doesn't surprised me at all, I am sure in here we even discussed this before how we suspected/knew this happened. So glad I ditched coaching when I did as an idea for a career. Someone lent me the secret footballer recently, had never been a fan of it but I tried to give it a go as this person is a very good friend of mine and loves it and kept asking if I had started it yet, I stopped when I got to the part about how only those involved in football, know what its like and what it takes.

Such a closed minded mentality, it's no wonder we don't push our talent on. I would be interested in seeing the numbers of coaches at Ajax or a similarly progressive club, that don't have professional level experience of playing.

 

[Lord Knows]

This is a very good read. Within it you can see what Kenny Jackett struggles with, its his fixation on holding a particular shape which prevents creative expression and good movement.
Basically his players become rigid because they fear losing their recovery position.

What Is Good Football.

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2016/...ll-the-role-of-aesthetics-in-the-modern-game/

 

[The Bear]

Stale used to do that too.

 

[Lord Knows]

Here's Smurf the Leicester City physio on hamstrings

http://chewshealth.co.uk/tpmpsession29/

 

[Lord Knows]

Leadership and mentality.

http://www.getfootballnewsfrance.co...tional-team-talk-with-english-subtitles/?utm_

 

[YoungWolf]

If anyone is currently coaching in grassroots youth football, would be very grateful if you could fill out a questionnaire I have made for my disseration study on the Relative Age Effect: https://goo.gl/forms/zfvkDOtkOj9PiDGj1

 

[Lord Knows]

Ozil - I work on weaknesses every day.

If its good for the best its also good for the rest, no excuses.


Read more at http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-ar...k-on-weaknesses-every-day#tvCViji08b6QdsAZ.99



http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20161110/ozil-i-work-on-weaknesses-every-day

 

[Lord Knows]

Are we moving into an era when playing and coaching can be seem as completely distinctive career paths.

Nicknamed ‘Mini-Mourinho’, Ejdin Djonlic is the youngest person in Europe to gain the UEFA ‘A’ Licence. Now, aged 22, he is targeting a job as a Premier League Manager – having already worked with Bosnia’s national team.

Ejdin, born in Norway to Bosnian parents, decided at a young age that his abilities as a footballer were limited. Instead, he committed his time to analysing players and managers to develop his knowledge in the hope of following in the footsteps of his hero, Jose Mourinho.

He completed his first coaching badge, the UEFA ‘C’ Licence, as a 15-year-old, at which stage he was already managing players of a similar age and producing curriculums for other coaches at his local club to follow.


http://thesetpieces.com/features/meet-mini-mourinho-youngest-coach-achieve-uefa-licence/

 

[Johnny75]

Are we moving into an era when playing and coaching can be seem as completely distinctive career paths.

Nicknamed ‘Mini-Mourinho’, Ejdin Djonlic is the youngest person in Europe to gain the UEFA ‘A’ Licence. Now, aged 22, he is targeting a job as a Premier League Manager – having already worked with Bosnia’s national team.

Ejdin, born in Norway to Bosnian parents, decided at a young age that his abilities as a footballer were limited. Instead, he committed his time to analysing players and managers to develop his knowledge in the hope of following in the footsteps of his hero, Jose Mourinho.

He completed his first coaching badge, the UEFA ‘C’ Licence, as a 15-year-old, at which stage he was already managing players of a similar age and producing curriculums for other coaches at his local club to follow.


http://thesetpieces.com/features/meet-mini-mourinho-youngest-coach-achieve-uefa-licence/

It's about bloody time too. He will have to learn how to manage men which will be the hard bit, as it is in every job, but I hope he does well.