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Youth Soccer Coaching Player Development Podcast

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Apr 9, 2022 • 50min

75 Angel City FC Head Coach Freya Coombe

Angel City FC is the new Womens Soccer Team Franchise in LA. Freya Coombe is Head Coach and joins Saul to discuss her inspirational story which has led to hear securing one of the top jobs in Womens Soccer. Freya started her career in the UK working for the FA and the Reading girls programme. She then moved to the USA to work in grass roots but was quickly given the opportunity of a life time to coach the Sky Blues (now Gotham FC) which she took with both hands. Thanks to Angel City FC for use of the profile picture.
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Mar 28, 2022 • 1h 2min

74 Thomas Ruesink PSV Skills Coach

Thomas Ruesink has been a skills coach at PSV for over 3 years. Working predominantly with the 10-13s age groups. Thomas gives us insight to one of the best Academies in Holland and how his unique 'chaos games' philosophy added something new to the Academy.
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Mar 21, 2022 • 1h 5min

73 Zeb Jacobs Glasgow Rangers Head Of Coaching

Zeb Jacobs has recently begun a new role as Head of Coaching at Rangers Football Club. Zeb talks about his coaching methodology that he moulded in his time at Royal Antwerp. Built around developing players ability to outplay opponents in 1v1 and creating masters of the ball. Zeb goes into detail about what he believes is the best way to develop top pros and the challenges of implementing a new philosophy at a top european club.
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Mar 14, 2022 • 54min

72 Paul Gray Fouundation Phase Lead Blackburn Rovers

Paul Gray is the Senior Foundation Phase Coach at Blackburn Rovers. He's a Foundation Phase specialist with experience working at Accrington Stanley, Blackpool, Preston North End, Bodo Glimt in Norway until he's current position at Blackburn Rovers.
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Mar 5, 2022 • 1h 7min

71 David Webb Head Of Recruitment and Technical Director

David Webb has had an extraordinary career already, starting coaching in Academy football at Crystal Palace. He quickly got involved in recruitment and was the scout who spotted Zaha. He's gone on to work in recruitment at Southampton and Spurs under Pochettino and also at Bournemouth with Eddie Howe. He progressed on to be Head of Football at Östersunds FK and then Huddersfield Town.
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Feb 14, 2022 • 53min

70 Andy Martino Southampton Academy Coach

Andy Martino has spent over 20 years coaching at Southampton's Academy. Andy shares his experiences working at one of the best Academies in the country as a Foundation Phase specialist and gives us an insight into how and why Southampton has been one of the most successful Academies in English football in recent times.
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Feb 7, 2022 • 1h 12min

69 Manisha Taylor MBE Assistant Head Of Coaching QPR

Saul is joined by Manisha Taylor MBE who discusses her role at QPR and working under the wing of Chris Ramsey. QPR have one of the best technical programmes in the country. Manisha talks about her quick rise through the ranks a the club and what makes QPR so unique and so successful in developing players
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Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 1min

68 Jake Henry Nottingham Forest Foundation Phase Lead

Nottingham Forest's Foundation Phase Lead Jake Henry joins Saul to talk about what goes on behind the scenes at the Academy and their recent transition to Category 1 Academy. Jake discusses his journey from part time coach including his time coaching abroad to his current role at Nottingham Forest.
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Jul 5, 2021 • 1h 8min

67 Mike Dodds Birmingham City Academy Manager

Mike Dodds is Birmingham City's Academy Manager. He discusses he time at Birmingham working his way up from part time coach in the pre academy to the Foundation Phase, Youth Development Phase, Professional Development phase and now as Academy Manger. Mike knows the Academy back to front and shares the innovation and methodology that has helped Birmingham City to consistently develop players including Jude Bellingham.
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Jun 3, 2021 • 1h 1min

66 Eduardo Oliveira U20 Coach Fluminense

Eduardo Oliveria joins Saul to discuss his role at Brazilian giant Fluminense as first Head Of Methodology and now U20 Head Coach. Fluminense has a long proud history and culture of developing players for their first team and the Brazilian national team. Eduardo and Saul discuss the methodology of the club from the very youngest age groups to the U20s that prepares players for professional football and the first team.

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