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Youth Soccer Coaching Player Development Podcast

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107 Steve Sallis Mindset Consultant English FA

Steve Sallis is one of the world leaders in mindset development. He Joins Saul and Glen to discuss how we can maximise mindset development not only in our players but in us as coaches also. Check out Steves first book 'Educating Football' which has literally changed the game and his soon to be released follow up 'How not to be a leadership dickhead.' The Virtual Academy is back on the MyPersonalFootballCoach app. The Next Gen Club includes Technical, Tactical, Physical, Psychological and Tips how to get scouted from Premier League Coaches...for just £9.99 a month. mypersonalfootballcoach.com/the-virtual…ademy-home/

May 4, 202445 min

106 Lee Hayes Yokohama FC Academy Ex West Ham and QPR

The Virtual Academy is back on the MyPersonalFootballCoach app. The Next Gen Club includes Technical, Tactical, Physical, Psychological and Tips how to get scouted from Premier League Coaches...for just £9.99 a month. https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/the-virtual-academy-home/ Lee Hayes joins Saul to discuss his role at Yokohama FC and what life and football culture is like in Japan. Lee also talks about his work at his previous clubs including West Ham and QPR.

Apr 26, 202441 min

105 Danny Buck Arsenal Academy Coach Pt 2

To find out more about technical coaching, Ball Mastery and 1v1 Duels checkout the MyPersonalFootballCoach Online Coaching Courses https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/level-1-level-2-e-leaning-courses/ Arsenal Academy Skills Specialist Danny Buck returns to join Saul to discuss his work at the world famous Hale End, home to Arsenal's Academy. Saul takes a deep dive into Danny's work with the 15/16s and how he structures his technical work. Looking at how he develops players individually and in small groups and how he challenges the players and himself.

Apr 2, 202439 min

104 Paul Holder FA Coach Educator

Paul Holder is a legend in the English Coaching fraternity. His long career has seen him coach at Academy and 1st Team Level. He has also been a coach Educator at the English Football Association. Paul and Saul discuss coaching topics including the Game Based approach.

Mar 21, 202438 min

103 Coaching Family is there too much dribbling in Youth Football?

MyPersonalFootballCoach Coaching Courses and Virtual Conference are now on sale! mypersonalfootballcoach.com/iamacoach/ Alex Nichols, Ex Arsenal Academy Coach joins Glenn and Saul to discuss whether there's too much dribbling in youth football.

Feb 23, 202437 min

102 Where have all the #10s Gone? Coaching Family Special

MyPersonalFootballCoach Coaching Courses and Virtual Conference are now on sale! https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/iamacoach/ Glenn joins Saul again for the Coaching Family Special asking where are all the #10s gone? Pro and Academy football seem to be missing the mavericks which used to be the mainstay of teams through out the world. Why is this and is it a reflection of our recruitment/coaching process?

Feb 13, 202437 min

101 Chris Robinson Ex Scout Chelsea FC's Academy

The Virtual Academy Club Next Gen goes live February 1st. Get the complete player development programme. Technical, Tactical, Mindset, Physical and tips how to get scouted. Sign up on the MyPersonalFootballCoach app or follow this link https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/the-virtual-academy-home/ Chris Robinson spent over 10 years as a Scout at Chelsea FC's Academy. He describes what goes on behind the scenes and how they have dominated Academy football in England for the last generation. He now runs thescoutinggame.co.uk ... a service for players and parents who want to get scouting reports for Premier League scouts.

Jan 31, 202449 min

100 Yousuf Sajadd Ex Arsenal Head of Emerging Talent Current TD FC Den Bosch

The MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Academy Next Gen Club is going live February 1st. Technical, Tactical, Physical, Mindset and tips how to get scouted from some of the best talent developers in world football. https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/the-virtual-academy-home/ Yousuf Sajjadd has gone from volunteer scout at Brentford to Technical Director of FC Den Bosch in Holland in just over 10 years. Along the way he's worked full time at Chelsea in the recruitment department and was Head of Emerging Talent at Arsenal. Yousuf talks about the changing nature of recruitment at the highest level and what it looks like at two of the biggest academies in England.

Jan 26, 202458 min

99 Colin Bergmans Skills Coach PSV Eindhoven

Check out Saul's new Coach Mentoring. Take your coaching and/or Soccer coaching career/business to the next level... https://pdafootball.co.uk/coach-mentoring/ Colin Bergmans is a Skills Coach at PSV Eindhoven. Colin outlines how his ‘Skill Box’ works and the individual focus that sets PSV apart from most Academies.

Dec 12, 202343 min

98 Diogo Pavia Head of Individual Development FC Porto

Check out Saul's new Coach Mentoring. Take your coaching and/or Soccer coaching career/business to the next level... https://pdafootball.co.uk/coach-mentoring/ Diogo Pavia joins Saul to discuss his role as Head of Individual Development at FC Porto. This famous Portuguese club has a long and successful track record of player development. Pepijn Lijnders previously held this role within the club. Diogo shares his work and his insight to individual player development and why Porto continues to produce such technical and creative footballers.

Dec 4, 202354 min

97 Coaching Family Special: Technical Players how do we Coach/Develop them?

Alex Nichols, former Technical Coach at Arsenal FC joins Saul and Glen to talk about Technical Players. What do they look like and how do we coach/develop them?

Oct 2, 202339 min

96 Coaching Family Special Ball Striking

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?

Sep 26, 202336 min

95 Kenneth Santa Head of Talent ID Singapore, ex Brondby and Aspire Academy

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.

Sep 12, 202359 min

94 Does Possession Matter? Coaching Family Special

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?

Sep 4, 202337 min

93 Jeroen Chantrain Anderlecht Academy Coach

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

Aug 28, 202346 min

92 Coaching Family Special 'Developing midfielders'

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?

Aug 21, 202336 min

91 Special with Paul McGuinness ex Man United and Glen Hicks

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.

Apr 17, 202346 min

90 Special Episode. Saul is interviewed by The Coaches Room

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.

Apr 4, 202359 min

Ivan Kepcija Ex Dinamo Zagreb Academy Manager and Hajduk Split TD

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.

Dec 29, 202255 min

Dan Micciche Ex England, Arsenal and Spurs

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.

Dec 16, 20221h 20m

87 Chris Docherty Sporting Director Budapest Honved

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.

Dec 10, 20221h 27m

86 Round Table Special Doug Lemov 'Teaching and Learning in Football'

The MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference is now live! 14 of the best player developers in world football present their ideas, methodology, hints and tips from elite level coaching. Download now and keep. GET 20% WITH 'PODCASTVC' CODE https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/ Doug Lemov is one of the world leaders in teaching and learning in sports coaching and football. He's joined by Tim Bradbury, US Soccer Coach Educator and Glen Hicks, Ex Premier League Academy Coach as they discuss with Saul teaching and learning in football coaching and how to create and develop the optimum learning environment for your players.

Nov 28, 20221h 11m

85 Ricardo Moniz Skills Coach Spurs, Red Bull, Hamburg, Feyenoord

Ricardo Moniz is regarded as the world's leading skills coach. His time at Spurs as first team skills coach left a legacy on the whole club but particularly the Academy. He has also worked at the Red Bull Clubs, Hamburg and Feyenoord. He has also has stints in management in England and Europe. Ricardo, a disciple of Wiel Coerver took his work to the next level and has helped inspire coaches from all around the world including Saul who regards Ricardo as pivotal in helping him develop his Dynamic Ball Mastery methodology.

Aug 29, 20221h 6m

84 Michel Ribeiro 1st Team Individual Coach Genk

Michel Ribeiro is the 1st Team Individual Coach Genk, he was also previously the Individual Coach in the Academy of the same club. Michel talks about his career and one of the worlds leading individual coaching specialists. Saul and Michel discuss how and why Genk have become one of the best player development environments in world football and how much of an impact technical coaching can have on players from 9 years to the 1st team. USE CODE LEVEL2PODCAST TO GET 20% OFF THE MyPersonalFootballCoach Level 2 E Learning Course.

Aug 9, 20221h 5m

83 Russell Martin Swansea City Head Coach

Russell Martin joins Saul to talk about his footballing philosophy and how he made firstly MK Dons in League 1 one of the best possession football teams in Europe with stats only behind Man City and Barcelona. He also talks about his current role as Head Coach of Swansea City and how he's continued to try and develop a team that can dominate the ball from start to finish. Saul and Russell discuss how he implements this on the training ground and what have been the main challenges since he started coaching. GET 20% OFF THE NEW MyPersonalFootballCoach LEVEL 2 COURSE WITH PROMO CODE LEVEL2PODCAST

Jul 25, 20221h 3m

82 Oliver Schoepp Borussia Mönchengladbach Academy Coach

Get 20% off the new MyPersonalFootballCoach Level 2 E Learning Course with Promo Code LEVEL2PODCAST.

Jul 16, 20221h 2m

81 Alex Nichols Technical Coach Arsenal FC's Academy

Alex Nichols is a Technical Coach at Arsenal FC's Academy. Alex discusses what goes on on the grass at Hale End to make it one of best Academies in world football right now.

May 30, 20221h 2m

80 Andy Parslow Set-Piece Coach AFC Wimbledon 1st Team

Andy Parslow is a specialist coach with AFC Wimbledon's 1st team. As set-piece coach he's managed to make Wimbledon's set-piece stats some of the best in the country. He's also had a long and distinguished career in Academy Football at Brentford, Watford and AFC Wimbledon. Saul and Andy discuss the rise of specialist coaches in football and how important they've become to players and teams at the highest level.

May 24, 20221h 3m

79 Joe Antonelli Crystal Palace u14/u15 Lead

Joe Antonelli is Lead u14 and u15 Lead Coach at Crystal Palace's Academy. Joe talks about the great work going on at the South London club and their transition to a Cat 1 Academy. Joe also talks about his previous roles at Fulham and Barnet's Academy. This one is not to be missed.

May 16, 20221h 4m

78 Hasney Aljofree Ex Man United's Academy

Hasney Aljofree spent 10 years coaching at Manchester United's famous Academy. Working across the age groups from 12 to the 23s Hasney gives us the behind the scenes low down on one of the best Academies in world football and what went on day to day on and off the grass.

May 9, 20221h 2m

77 Timo Jankowski TD Fiji ex Grass Hopper Zurich and German FA

Timo Jankowski has had an incredible career starting working for the German FA and progressing to Grass Hopper Zurich where he held several positions including First Team Coach, Head of Performance and Head of Player Development. He is now Technical Director of Fiji. Timo shares his journey and experiences supporting player development in this unique environments.

May 2, 20221h 4m

76 Thiago Macedo Club Athletico Paranaense, ex Santos & Fluminense

Thiago Macedo has coached at 3 of the biggest clubs in Brazil. He joins Saul to discuss his career and give us the insight into one of the greatest football cultures in world football. Why and how do Brazil keep producing such technically excellent players and what are the differences in approaches by the country's biggest clubs.

Apr 27, 20221h 9m

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.

Apr 9, 202249 min

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.

Mar 28, 20221h 1m

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.

Mar 21, 20221h 4m

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.

Mar 14, 202253 min

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.

Mar 5, 20221h 6m

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.

Feb 14, 202252 min

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

Feb 7, 20221h 12m

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.

Jul 15, 20211h 1m

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.

Jul 5, 20211h 8m

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.

Jun 3, 20211h 0m

65 Wes Hughes Lead Coach 15/16s Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wes Hughes Lead Coach 15/16s at Wolves joins Saul to discuss his journey which includes two stints at Wolverhampton Wanderers and also many years spent at Birmingham City's Academy working across the age groups and also with Jude Bellingham in the Foundation Phase and in the Youth Development Phase. Wes discusses Jude's development and the unique environment they created at Birmingham and how that has effected his coaching methodology and the work he now does helping making Wolves one of the best Academies in the country.

May 21, 20211h 11m

64 Lewis Craig Man Utd Women's 21's Assitant Coach

Lewis Craig joins Saul to talk about his role as Man Utd Womens 21's Coach and his coaching career which has seen him be Foundation Phase Lead at Burnley, Assitant Academy Manager at Salford City and also Head of YDP at Morecambe. Lewis' career has seen him work with all ages within the development pyramid and he has lots of great experience and knowledge to share!

May 5, 20211h 2m

63 Paul McGuinness Ex Man Utd Academy Current FA Coach Educator

Paul McGuinness joins Saul to discuss his journey of over 20 years at Manchester United as a player and Academy Coach and his current role for the English Football Association as a Coach Educator. Paul discusses what went on behind the scenes at United that consistently made it one of the top producers of talent in world football. He also discusses his work with players including Marcus Rashford who he helped develop into the player he is today. This one is not to be missed!!! Check out the MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Academy here, some of the world's best player developers in the world's on virtual academy. https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtualacademy/

Feb 26, 20211h 5m

62 Lewis Goater Arsenal FC's Foundation Phase Lead

Lewis Goater, Foundation Phase Lead at Arsenal's Academy joins Saul to talk about his journey and what goes on behind the scenes at one of the best Academies in world football. Arsenal have an unbelievable track record of developing players for their first team and for professional football. Lewis shares what goes on in trying to develop 'Strong Young Gunners' under the inspirational leadership of Academy Manager Per Mertesacker.

Feb 17, 20211h 10m

61 Simon Clifford Brazilian Football Specialist & Ex Southampton

Simon Clifford outlines his extraordinary journey that took him from school teacher in England to Brazil and back to England to introduce the Brazilian coaching method to England. A true innovator Simon helped change the coaching game in the UK and challenges myths about Brazilian's only learning football in the streets. Also outlines the importance of technical training for all players.

Feb 3, 202157 min

60 Paolo Migliavacca Head of 12-14's Inter Milan

Paolo joins Saul to discuss the work that goes on in the Academy of one of the biggest clubs in the world. He discusses the methodology and structure of the Academy. He also discusses how they are trying to challenge the stereo type of Italy only producing world class defender and tactically astute players and coaches.

Jan 7, 202159 min

59 Ian Buckman Head Of Coaching Brighton Hove & Albion

Brighton Hove & Albion's Head Of Coaching Ian Buckman joins Saul to talk about his role at the Cat 1 Academy and what goes on behind the scenes. Ian shares his journey which has included several roles at Brighton and his previous club Portsmouth where he worked his way up from part time Foundation Phase Coach to Assistant Academy Manager.

Dec 14, 20201h 1m

58 Marik Reedijk Ajax Academy

Saul is joined by Marik Reedijk to discuss what goes on behind the scenes at Ajax, one of the best Academies in world soccer. Mairk discusses his journey which took him from the Dutch Football Association to the Dutch giants for two stints with two spells also at West Brom's Academy in England before his last job in mens professional football in Belgium.

Dec 1, 20201h 23m