Modern Soccer Coach Podcast

Gary is back for a new series and is joined by Programme Leader in Football Coaching & Management at UCFB, Chester City Lead Coach (U9s-U14s) and author of 'The Intelligent Soccer Coach' Carl Wild. Carl discusses how coaches can improve their preparation, execution, and review of training sessions, as well as tips on how to improve connecting with players and designing sessions to suit and challenge every age group. 'The Intelligent Soccer Coach' is available now on Amazon on the link below... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intelligent-Soccer-Coach-Player-Centered-Confident/dp/1782552251 Please check out Gary Curneen's new Ebook on Positional Exercises for Forwards on the link below... https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/product-page/25-positional-exercises-for-forwards Enjoy the Modern Soccer Coach content? Please subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/curneen16 Please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/modernsoccercoach/?hl=en

Gary is joined by England Futsal Team Head Coach & technical performance manager, Michael Skubala, to discuss lessons and detail from the futsal game including: - Facilitating decision making in the game - Managing an average of 80 substitutions per game - Technical and tactical demands of world class futsal players - Coaching accountability in moments of transition - 'My Game, Our Game, Your Game' tactical methodology And much more!!! If you are a coach who is looking for tactical analysis software, we highly recommend KeyFrame. They are one of the most efficient, effective and affordable solutions for coaches looking to build graphics and animations alongside their analysis work and are perfect for player meetings and remote learning. Click on the link below to find out more: https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/post/wide-attacking-rotations-in-a-4-3-3 To check out a little more about Michael's work with England, here is a fantastic article detailing his culture and environment there: https://thebootroom.thefa.com/resources/interviews/mike-skubala/my-coaching-philosophy

Gary is joined by Lead Sports Scientist – Southampton FC Womens and Girls. She has also recently worked as first team sport scientist at Southampton, as well as the academy at Southampton and Aston Villa. In this interview, she gives fantastic insight here around the topic of pre-season training with tips for coaches as well as insights from her journey and career. This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at HEJA. (go.heja.app/msc) On Heja’s free team management app, You can see exactly who reads the information you send out and, unlike whatsapp or a group chat, you can organise your training times and details using a separate team calendar within the app that’s easy for everyone to view, meaning those all important dates and times do not get lost in a buzzing group chat. Surprisingly, Heja is actually free-to-use for your whole team, and we recommend you download it now and give it a go to save yourself some time and get your team better organised and all together this season. You can search in your App Store for Heja, or just click the link here: (go.heja.app/msc)

Gary is joined by Hartford Athletic head coach, Harry Watling, to discuss his transition from working with youth players to senior professionals. Before managing the USL club, Harry has worked at Chelsea, West Ham, and Milwall academies. He discusses: - Individual development plans and how to they transfer to professional levels - Role of mentors who have helped challenge and support him - Session design and the processes he has in place with staff and match schedules And much more!! This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at HEJA. (go.heja.app/msc) On Heja’s free team management app, You can see exactly who reads the information you send out and, unlike whatsapp or a group chat, you can organise your training times and details using a separate team calendar within the app that’s easy for everyone to view, meaning those all important dates and times do not get lost in a buzzing group chat. Surprisingly, Heja is actually free-to-use for your whole team, and we recommend you download it now and give it a go to save yourself some time and get your team better organised and all together this season. You can search in your App Store for Heja, or just click the link here: (go.heja.app/msc)

Gary is joined by Tactical and Video Analyst from Statsbomb, Carlon Carpenter, to discuss ways that college and club coaches can plan to maximize and communicate their analysis for the upcoming season. Carlon shares his experiences as an analyst from US Youth National Team and University of Virginia, as well as his insights from Statsbomb to help coaches in the following areas: - Make analysis work on a limited budget - Organized your staffing effectively - Link analysis to your training exercises - Communicate effectively as an analyst - Build post-game review process for the team and staff And much more!! This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at HEJA. (go.heja.app/msc) On Heja’s free team management app, You can see exactly who reads the information you send out and, unlike whatsapp or a group chat, you can organise your training times and details using a separate team calendar within the app that’s easy for everyone to view, meaning those all important dates and times do not get lost in a buzzing group chat. Surprisingly, Heja is actually free-to-use for your whole team, and we recommend you download it now and give it a go to save yourself some time and get your team better organised and all together this season. You can search in your App Store for Heja, or just click the link here: (go.heja.app/msc)

Gary is joined by Karl Marius Aksum to discuss a very unique topic. Karl is a current PhD Candidate researching Visual Perception in Elite Football. He has a Master's Degree in Coaching and Psychology and wrote his Master's thesis on visual perception in real football match play on AFC Ajax players, aged 14-20, from where I received the highest possible grade He also has a Bachelor's Degree in Football Coaching. He discusses: - Importance of scanning and visual awareness - Difference between scanning and fixation - Exercises that help develop better awareness - If rondo's actually make scanning worse - How to implement better processes in our youth environments And much more! This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at HEJA. (https://go.heja.app/msc) On Heja’s free team management app, You can see exactly who reads the information you send out and, unlike whatsapp or a group chat, you can organise your training times and details using a separate team calendar within the app that’s easy for everyone to view, meaning those all important dates and times do not get lost in a buzzing group chat. Surprisingly, Heja is actually free-to-use for your whole team, and we recommend you download it now and give it a go to save yourself some time and get your team better organised and all together this season. You can search in your App Store for Heja, or just click the link here: (https://go.heja.app/msc)

Gary is joined by Sanjeev Parmar, a youth development expert who runs Futuro Soccer Academy in Ottawa, Canada. He has a unique approach and philosophy around development and talks about the following: - Training exercises that engage the players - Being competitive without focusing on result - Importance of physical training alongside technical - Educating parents in the process And much more!!! We have teamed up with Wildkard for this podcast. Wildkard's all-in-one app empowers you to manage your team or club, plus create social engagement directly with players. Your team can stay connected beyond game-time with blazingly-fast features like chat, virtual challenges, game recaps, and profiles. They've recently launched club management so you can easily manage 100s of teams, delegate responsibility, and communicate with everyone in your club simply. A desktop version of club management comes out mid-June - where you can import thousands of teams, events, and rosters in one click, and manage your entire club comfortably on your computer. If you sign-up for the summer and fall season with Wildkard, you will get it for FREE plus get grandfathered in. Use the link below to sign-up. https://bit.ly/3t3C1m5

Gary is joined by Eric Laurie who is currently working in Norway, Molde FK in the Norwegian Eliteserien, as Head of Academy Performance Analysis and a coach on the U16 staff. Eric discusses analysis at youth level as well as the career path for a young analyst in the professional game. This podcast is sponsored by Wildkard.Wildkard is the industry's 1st social and admin platform for teams. With Wildkard, you engage via virtual challenges, team channels, game reports, and player stats. They just launched the parent-mode feature. Allowing coaches to group players and parents, so parents are up-to-date. Parents love it! Coaches can take advantage of a special promotion - sign up your team in April and get the product for FREE, no hidden fees. Wildkard is easy to use. Team setup takes only two minutes. Register below.... https://bit.ly/3t3C1m5

Last week I sat down with the Double Pass team of Jared Micklos, Hans Vander Elst, Kevin Nicholson, and Stig Meylemans. Double Pass is a Belgian company that assesses and advises football clubs, (con)federations and leagues around the world, on ways in which they can optimize their talent development. In March 2020, FIFA enlisted them as a partner to roll out a new ‘Talent Development Progamme’. Double Pass make potential improvements visible on our Club & Academy Monitoring Platform (CAMP) using a unique methodology based on their scientific model and proprietary algorithms. Their experienced staff also help to implement tailor-made solutions alongside the clubs and coaches. If you would like to find out more about the Double Pass Master Class, which is designed to help coaches gain insights into the challenges and opportunities of running an elite football academy and optimizing its football technical management, please click below. The course is over 70 hours and includes 5 different chapters, webinars, personal mentoring, E-Modules, group work, and assessments. They currently have a special offer for coaches which ends on February 15th. https://education.doublepass.com/e-masterclass/

We were recently joined by TOVO Director, Todd Beane, to be the first to achieve a hat-trick of appearances on MSC for Todd, having previously done a podcast in 2018 and then a special guest slot at the MSC Roadshow event in Chicago in 2019. This chat was a little different and centered around the personality and leadership capabilities of the coach, so that they can maximize the impact on culture and environment. Todd has recently written a book called 'Clear Coaching', which he wrote this year and shares insights and perspectives on the youth landscape and what we can do to improve the experience for players and families. Would you like to support and continue the free content at Modern Soccer Coach? The MSC Lockdown Webinar Series is now available to download! For just over $1 per webinar, you can personally download all TWENTY FIVE webinar presentations. Each webinar is over one hour long and features a detailed presentation, followed by the live Q&A with the coaches in attendance. Our covered topics include youth and elite player development, sport science, tactical analysis, match preparation, goalkeeping, pressing, and other key specific areas. Click here to get your copy here: https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/product-page/msc-25-lockdown-webinar-series