Balancing Football & Academics in an Elite Environment with Lee Picton
Modern Soccer Coach Podcast
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Soccer - Is There a Balance Between Academics and Athletics?
There's more than enough time in any given week, month or year for players to have a split focus. And I think you've got to get the balance right. You've got to create an environment where they can have the opportunity to thrive both academically and athletically. So we've had a program running here at the, at South Shields Football Club now called our futures academy program. We partner up with a local college and it's for 11 to 16-year-old players. They drop some of their kind of non-call GCSE subjects in order to create that time where they can almost get the best of both worlds. The E-triple-P system has changed
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