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If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you already use small sided games (SSGs) in your sessions. But here’s the problem I see all the time – the format looks right, but the outcomes don’t land. The structure is sound, but the learning isn’t sticking. Players just run around. There’s no coaching moment. No game transfer. Continue Reading.....

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New Blog Post The Sunday Night Reality It's 9:47 PM on Sunday. Training is on Tuesday. You've scrolled through Twitter for 40 minutes looking for session ideas. Nothing feels right. You're tired of the same old drills. Your players are bored. You need something fresh, but you don't know what. So you cobble together a session from three different YouTube videos, hope it works, and promise yourself you'll be more organised next time. Then Tuesday repeats. Then Thursday repeats. This is coaching in isolation. It's exhausting, inefficient, and completely unnecessary. Here are 5 coaching problems that vanish the moment you join a coaching community

Training On Your Own Does anyone remember their younger days? Football in the streets or a park from first light to last. We all have fond memories of those days, but drive past any park today and, likely, there won't be a football in sight! You will also struggle to find anyone playing in the street. Kids don't do that these days. Thinking back to my youth, we played matches against each other all the time, which were usually 20 kids versus another 20! We also, to pass the time and beat boredom, played informal football games like Worldy, Wally, and Headers and Volleys. We may not have realised it at the time, but those games taught valuable football lessons, and again, I don’t see many kids playing them these days. Instead, there are a number of kids who play football several nights a week via coaching sessions, which are usually fun, safe and well-structured. Here they learn to a curriculum or plan, facilitated by adults. However, by learning and only playing football this way, are kids missing out by not playing informal games with their friends in an unstructured environment?