Coaching Youth Football

Mike Nicholson•www.coachingyouthfootball.org

A podcast by grassroots football coaches, for grassroots coaches. www.coachingyouthfotball.org mike.nicholson@coachingyouthfootball.org

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Episode Six: Coaching Youth Football with Tony Mee

In this episode of the Coaching Youth Football podcast, we talk to Tony Mee, author of several books including his most recent, Through The Thirds. We discuss the process of planning a season's coaching syllabus, and how Tony works through the thirds up the pitch and then back again. Follow Tony Mee on Twitter - @coachtonymee Follow Mike on Twitter - @youthcoachmike Join the Coaching Youth Football page here - www.facebook.com/coachyouthfootball You can buy Tony's new book directly, and in doing...

May 13, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode Five: Coaching Youth Football with Ben Bartlett

Ben Bartlett is widely considered one of the best coach educators in the business. He spent over 10 years as a coach educator at the FA before taking up the role of head of coaching at the Fulham Academy a year ago. Technical problems robbed us of some minutes, but as you would expect from Ben, there is plenty of thoughtfulness in this 26 minutes to be worth a listen.

Apr 08, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode Four: Coaching Youth Football with Peter Prickett

In this episode of the Coaching Youth Football podcast, we talk to Peter Prickett. Peter is author of the book 'Developing Skill: A Guide to 3v3 Soccer Coaching' and a coaching at Brentford FC. We discuss the benefits of 3v3 games for players and coaches, and explore how we might include them in our session plans. Show Notes: Follow Peter on Twitter - @PeterPrickett Follow Mike on Twitter - @YouthCoachMike Follow Coaching Youth Football on Facebook - Facebook.com/coachyouthfootball Peter's book ...

Aug 13, 2019•46 min•Ep. 4

Episode Three: Coaching Youth Football with Peter Augustine

Pete Augustine is the County Coach Developer at the Surrey Football Association, and a coach at Met Police FC. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." ~ Aristotle. In this episode, we talk about ways that coaches can get into the habit of continual improvement, and much more. Show notes: Follow Peter on Twitter @surrey_cdd Follow Mike on Twitter @YouthCoachMike Follow Coaching Youth Football - Facebook.com/coachyouthfootball Pete mentions Hive as a fantastic...

Jul 26, 2019•41 min

Episode Two: Coaching Youth Football with Michael Nicoll.

In Episode Two of the Coaching Youth Football podcast we talk to Michael Nicoll of Brentwood Youth AFC about the practice of moving players up and down within a club, and much more. Brentwood Youth have a philosophy of 'football for all' and in this episode Michael talks about a lot of the good work that is going on at the club. Moving players between teams, both up and down, is a strategy that the club use to deliver the right level of challenge for every player. We talked about how communicati...

Jul 12, 2019•40 min•Ep. 2

Episode One: Coaching Youth Football with Richard King.

The Relative Age Effect: In this episode of the Coaching Youth Football podcast we talk to Richard King about the Relative Age Effect, and why coaches need to be aware of it when coaching youth football players. At the end of the podcast, Richard asks a question back to you, the coach or parent of grassroots players, that I hope we will be able to discuss via our Facebook and Twitter pages. --- Please like, follow, share and join the conversation via: Facebook: Facebook.com/coachyouthfootball Tw...

Jul 09, 2019•35 min•Ep. 1

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