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The Sports Initiative Podcast

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Mar 15, 2022 • 1h 13min

Jason Filippi

Jason Filippi has worked in the NBA for 19 years across a variety of teams. He has held positions as an international scout for the Detroit Pistons and the Miami Heat and was also the director of international scouting for the Portland Trail Blazers. During this time, they drafted the likes of Nicolas Batum, Rudy Fernandez and Pau Gasol from Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 8, 2022 • 58min

Dan McNally

Dan McNally is the Director of Operations at FC Cincinnati. Officially the clubs first ever employee, Dan has seen the side grow from an ambitious idea to MLS dream and helped shape and guide the club in each step. Formally a player at Blackburn Rovers, Dan was also a coach at the University of Cincinnati prior to this role. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 12min

Sarah Borwell

Sarah Borwell is a former Great British women's tennis player. She specialised in doubles and was ranked number 1 in the country. Competing in major competitions including Wimbledon and the Commonwealth games, Sarah travelled the globe as a professional player after graduating the University of Houston. Now working with Keystone sports, she helps young player transition out to the United States collegiate system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 22, 2022 • 1h 20min

Tosh Farrell

Tosh Farrell is a a highly regarded Youth Developer following his long standing role as part of Everton FC's academy. He helped develop the likes of Wayne Rooney, Jack Rodwell and Callum McManamam. He now works for FIFO, Robbie Fowler's Football academy, which looks to help develop the holistic individual at the college age group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 15, 2022 • 1h 34min

Andrew Rylland

Andrew Ryland is a former collegiate Football player at Penn State. After his college career he then transitioned to become a member of the United States Rugby team. Andrew specialises in teaching tackling technique and how to create a strong fundamental base for players throughout the pathway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 8, 2022 • 55min

Chris Butt

Chris Butt is the Lead Foundation Phase Coach at Sheffield Wednesday. Chris has fulfilled a variety of roles both at Sheffield Wednesday and Chesterfield FC and holds a Masters degree from Leeds Beckett University. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 10min

Iain Brunnschweiler

Iain Brunnschweiler is the Coach and Player Development Manager at Southampton FC. In this role he aims to support players and coaches in their professional development and preparing them for the riggers for full time academy and first team football. Prior to this he had also worked for UK Coaching, England Cricket and Hampshire Cricket. Formally a professional cricketer with Hampshire, Iain has played and worked alongside some of the worlds greatest circketers such as Shane Warne and Kevin Piertersen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 25, 2022 • 1h 9min

Tom Hartley

Tom Hartley is a performance coach developer at UK coaching. In this role he aims to challenge and support coaches from a wide range of sports focusing on improving their planning, delivery and evaluation. Alongside this role he also works as assistant coach at Oxford Women's FC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 8min

Chris Harmon

Chris Harmon is an academy coach at Red Bull New York. He works with both the U12's and U14's age groups and aims to implement the high octane Red Bull transitional play. Prior to this, he coached at Barcelona in Arizona as well as playing/trialling at a variety of US and European clubs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 11, 2022 • 1h 3min

Rhys Denton

Rhys Denton is a Youth development phase coach at Reading FC. He is also an Academy Manager at Hungerford Town as well as running his own business Perform 23 which runs a host of football camps which players from all different football academies attend. Rhys also recently received the Ugo Ehiogu 'ones to watch' from Football Black List. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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