Generation Football

Welcome to an extension of generationfootball.club . An insight into our inspirations & aspirations in the world of football. A collection of sourced topics to provoke thought, stimulate debate and to help facilitate others to make a difference in the development of players and coaches from grass root through to elite levels of the game.

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Julian Nagelsmann: Hoffenheim boss taking Bundesliga by storm

How has a managerial novice born in 1987 transformed Hoffenheim from relegation strugglers to a top-three Bundesliga side?

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Help for kids the education system ignores

Define students by what they contribute, not what they lack -- especially those with difficult upbringings, says educator Victor Rios. Interweaved with his personal tale of perseverance as an inner-city youth, Rios identifies three straightforward strategies to shift attitudes in education and calls for fellow educators to see "at-risk" students as "at-promise" individuals brimming with resilience, character and grit.

Teach to the heart and the mind will follow!

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Top 10 quotes on teamwork - Richard Branson

No 10. "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan

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Brilliant Orange - One for the reading list

The Netherlands has one of the World's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixt...

Well worth a read if you want to go deeper into the ‘why’ of Dutch football. The psychological, social and cultural influences that shape their national playing and coaching / development Styles. 

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Dennis Bergkamp on Arsenal, aesthetics and a blueprint for British coaching

The former Arsenal and Holland forward Dennis Bergkamp, now a coach at Ajax, tells Amy Lawrence about learning and teaching technical excellence

Ozil first touch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O-Ob5iOgFg

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FREE on digital download via itunes.

I can’t get enough of this magazine series, such an insightful and educational read. Almost too much information to process in one issue!

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A little reminder/process board I knocked up in order to keep one eye on some of the keys points I’ve taken from the England FA Youth Awards Modules when designing practices for grassroots foundation phase 5-11yrs. 

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Focus: Goalkeepers playing out from the back.

Frans Hoek is a Dutch former goalkeeper and current chief goalkeeping coach at Manchester United F.C. under manager Louis van Gaal. Hoek played for more than a decade at FC Volendam and later went to work as a goalkeeping coach at football clubs including AFC Ajax, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern Munich and Manchester United, and the Netherlands and Poland national teams. He has worked with goalkeepers including Edwin van der Sar, Stanley Menzo, Víctor Valdés, Vítor Baía, Pepe Reina, Robert Enke, Łukasz Fabiański, Thomas Kraft, Michel Vorm and David de Gea. Hoek is widely regarded as one of world football's best goalkeeping mentors.

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China’s focus on football could tilt the global game on its axis

China’s national team have long been seen as a joke, and the domestic league has never truly taken off – but all of that, and much more, could be about to change

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New Issue of Eight by Eight ! 'God descends to earth' http://8by8mag.com/issue-06/

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Get fit like the pros for new season

Find out how it has never been easier to train for your local team like a Premier League star or World Cup winner does.

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