Youth Soccer Coaching Player Development Podcast

Saul and Glen are back in the Coaching Family special to discuss Ball Striking. Is it important and when, where and how is the most effective way to coach and improve it?

Kenneth Santa has had an extraordinary career already taking him around the world as a talent ID Specialist. Starting his career in Denmark at clubs including Brondby, before moving to Aspire in Qatar, working as European Scout for Wolves, a stint in Saudi Arabia then India. He's now Head of talent ID in Singapore. Kenneth shares his journey and lesson learnt from different footballing cultures.

Glen joins Saul for another Coaching Family to discuss 'does possession matter?'. Guardiola has changed the game in the UK and in World Football...but is it important for your team to dominate the ball? In terms of youth development, is it key and how do you train it?

Jeroen Chantrain joins Saul to talk about is work at Anderlecht's famous academy. He has spent 6 years at the club working firstly with this youngest age groups in the foundation phase and now with the 13/14s. He also coaches in the Purple Talents programme which is Anderlecht's school programme for 'their better players'. Check out more about Anderlecht with the Inside the Academy documentary. https://youtu.be/uJ1hd5fcbx8?si=lNNvqyT7DvwwquPk

Glen Hicks joins Saul for this Coaching Family special discussing how to develop midfielders. Looking at the current trend of central midfielders going for big money in the Premier League and La Liga...what are the key attributes needed to play and prosper in this area of the pitch and how does that effect our session design?

Paul McGuinness ex Man Utd Coach for 20 years and Glen Hicks ex Premier League Academy coach join Saul for this round table special discussing Paul's notion of 'Flow', how to identify and how to coach it in football.

MPFC Podcast host Saul Isaksson-Hurst is interviewed by Inside the Coaches Room in this special episode. Saul talks about his 20 year career, coaching at the Academies of Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal and his work as an individual coach working with and developing some of the best young talent in world football.

GET 20% OFF THE MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference with the code 'podcastvc' Ivan Kepcija joins Saul to talk about his career which has seen him be instrumental in the rise of Croatian football to the top of World Football. Ivan was assitant Academy Manager then Academy Manger of Dinamo Zagreb. He then moved in to be a Technical Director at Legia Warszawa and then at Hajduk Split. Ivan discusses his work and the secrets behind the extraordinary success of Croatian Football.

Get 20% off the MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference with code 'podcastvc' https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/ Dan Micciche is regarded as one of the best coaches in the country and has had an extraordinary career already. Starting coaching a Crystal Palace he soon moved across London to work under Chris Ramsey and John McDermott at Spurs. He then moved on to work at MK Dons, responsible for brining such players as Dele Alli through. His next role came at the English FA where he supported Dan Ashworth and Gareth Southgate in developing and defining the new England DNA as U16 Head Coach. His most recent role in youth development came at Arsenal where he worked in numerous roles including head of the PDP.

Check out the MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference. 14 of the worlds best talent developers. Get 20% off with the code 'podcastvc' https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/ Chris Docherty has had an amazing career in the game already. Starting his career in Academy football in Scotland as a coach and then moving to work with the Scottish FA in their performance programme. He then moved to work firstly in China and then Croatia progressing and mixing his roles working in the first team environment and then more club systems and management. He is now Sporting Director of Budapest Honved one of the biggest clubs in Hungary.