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Prioritize Ruthlessly

*** NEW POST *** Prioritize Ruthlessly - How many times have you reflected on a season or any period of time coaching and thought ‘why did I spend time doing THAT’?

As coaches we tend to have a lot of different tasks in our day to day coaching. Some of these tasks are connected to the coaching role within the organization, for example a head coach has different tasks than an assistant coach and the tasks of a head coach of the first team will probably be somewhat different than the tasks of the head coach for a youth team.

If you would apply for the…

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First step

***NEW POST*** First step - "Great, now you’ve got it and you’ll do that from now on. But How? And more importantly, why?"

For coaches who want to maintain their level of coaching it is a good idea to implement some, or all of the Coach Recovery strategies. These strategies are divided into two main groups of Good Life Strategies (for everything outside the field) and Coach Efficiency Strategies (for everything on the field).

The first Good Life Strategy is what governs everything you do, namely your Health. The…

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Coach Efficiency

***NEW POST*** Coach Efficiency - "So what can we do? How can we improve our efficiency of coaching to make sure we get more time for Recovery? "

To create a foundation for your Coach Recovery you should first implement the Good Life Strategies to make sure that you are doing everything you can outside the field to improve on the field. As you might know, the three keys to the Good Life Strategies are; Health, Family and Meditation.

When this foundation is laid and you have your life outside the field more or less in order, it is time to…

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Good Life Strategies

***NEW POST*** Good Life Strategies - "There are some pretty good side effects when you implement this first part of the Coach Recovery Strategies, namely a higher quality of living in general and not only good coaching for longer."

For coaches who want to maintain their level of coaching throughout the season and avoid coach fatigue there are certain Coach Recovery Strategies you can implement to help with this. The first part focuses on what you can do outside the field to improve your performance on the field.

There are some pretty good side effects when you implement this first part of the Coach Recovery Strategies,…

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Feeling Fresh

*** NEW POST *** Feeling Fresh - "How did you feel at the end of last season? Did you feel fresh or were you just happy that the season was coming to an end..."

When the most important games of the season come around, you want to be relatively fresh so that you can keep making great decisions in your coaching. Not only do you want to make as good decisions as possible in the start of the season, but you want to be able to maintain good coaching actions throughout the season

Maybe you read the previous blog post about the coach who signed for a new club…

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Story of a Coach

***NEW POST *** Story of a Coach - "...after three months of almost no time for recovery and his team having to play a cup-semifinals and then in the league during the same week, the energy levels of this coach was very low."

Let me tell you a story about a coach who was hired by a top team a while back. Before this coach signed for the club, he had laid out a seemingly great plan for how he was going to avoid another experience of extreme fatigue and burn-out symptoms.

You see, in his previous job, this coach had held double roles, being both the General Manager and the Head Coach. As you can imagine, that meant more…

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Coach Recovery

***NEW POST*** Coach Recovery - A coach who is fatigued will make worse decisions than a coach that is fresh. The consequence is the same as when your players are fatigued, you will reduce the chance of winning.

As coaches we spend a lot of time discussing optimal recovery strategies for our players. We realize the importance of player freshness and go through a complex planning process to make sure that our players are not accumulating fatigue during the season.

The reason for our obsession with player freshness is grounded in science. If your players are fatigued, they will have a greater risk of…

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*** NEW POST *** Pro course 2019 The World Football Academy Pro Course of 2019 can be easily summarized as the best coach(ing) education I have ever attended. This course was so good that it’s difficult to express in words. The World Football Academy Pro Course of 2019 can be easily summarized as the best coach(ing) education I have ever attended.

Expert Meeting 2019

***NEW POST *** Expert Meeting 2019 Last week the eight annual World Football Academy Expert Meeting took place in Split, Croatia. 50 coaches from all around the world participated in this edition that was the best one to date.

Last week the eight annual World Football Academy Expert Meeting took place in Split, Croatia. 50 coaches from all around the world participated in this edition that was the best one to date.

The Expert Meeting is the Level 2 course for coaches who want to educate themselves independently from subjective opinion and local federations. At the level 1 there is the Football Periodisation Mentorship,

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No free will

*** NEW POST *** No free will You might think that you are free to decide whatever you want, but that is simply not the case. You can’t even decide what to think next, so how can you consciously decide what to do next?

First, let me tell you the bad news before I share the good news. You have no free will. You might think that you are free to decide whatever you want, but that is simply not the case. You can’t even decide what to think next, so how can you consciously decide what to do next?

The truth is that we are all unconscious stimulus-response patterns that are walking around trapped in an illusion of…

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Periodisation Mentorship 2019

*** NEW POST *** Periodisation Mentorship 2019 It was 50 coaches from all around the world in the capital of Wales for a week that should be mandatory for all coaches.

It was 50 coaches from all around the world in the capital of Wales for a week that should be mandatory for all coaches. It was the 2019 edition of the World Football Academy Football Periodisation Mentorship.

The course started on Monday morning with a very clear reference for the individual delegates in terms of expectation and obligations for the week. There was only one request made:…

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Not fit, then fit?

***NEW POST *** Not fit, then fit? When watching a football game on TV you often hear that the commentator or pundits exclaim at the end of a half that one or both teams are tired (...) but most of the time it’s just nonsense.

When watching a football game on TV you often hear that the commentator or pundits exclaim at the end of a half that one or both teams are tired, they imply or outright say that one or both teams is not fit. Of course this can, at least in theory be true and a correct observation, but most of the time it’s just nonsense.

Imagine you’re watching a game which is played in what you regard as a high…

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Why Football Coach Mentoring?

*** NEW POST *** Why Football Coach Mentoring? Since 2017 I was thinking of a way for me to help more coaches on their quest of becoming better versions of themselves and my answer is Football Coach Mentoring.

A couple of weeks ago, this Easter holiday, I finally started something that I’ve been thinking of doing for over two years time. Since 2017 I was thinking of a way for me to help more coaches on their quest of becoming better versions of themselves and my answer is Football Coach Mentoring.

As a young ambitious coach who wants to improve it’s hard to know what step to take next, which books to…

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Changing a culture

*** NEW POST *** Changing a culture Imagine being tasked with changing the culture of a team or any organization. Sounds easy enough, just get started doing something immediately right? Maybe not.

Imagine being tasked with changing the culture of a team or any organization. Sounds easy enough, just get started doing something immediately right? Maybe not.

When you enter an organization where you are expected to change the culture the first thing you need to understand that there is a reason for this need. If things were going well and in the direction ownership wanted there would be no…

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Creating a culture

*** NEW POST *** Creating a culture "You had no intention of creating a culture where your players behave in the ‘unacceptable’ way they now behave - but it’s too late - you just have to manage this mess."

There are certain times for a coach when you have the opportunity to amend or create a new culture within your team or club. For example in the beginning of the new season after an extensive break or possibly if you’re hired in the middle of the season.

Culture is how your players and staff are expected to behave which of course is influenced by many different factors. Personality, beliefs,…

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The what and the how

The what and the how "So what your players are supposed to do in the game is press horizontally, that’s your tactics and the communication which your players will base their decisions on. How your players press..."

As a coach one of your main duties are to decide the tactics for your team, the communication between your players in the game. Based on the players you have available, the league you’re playing in and other external factors you have thought of a certain way of playing, tactics, that will increase the chance for your team to succeed.

For example you may decide that when defending and disturbing…

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Football Tactics Evolution

*** NEW POST *** Football Tactics Evolution - Reflections

This week was spent in Salzburg, Austria participating as a mentor at the World Football Academy Football Tactics Evolution. Observing training sessions at Red Bull Salzburg and preparing a tactical methodology in an experience that pushed all coaches outside their comfort zones.

The metaphorical context for the course was the following:

After beating Portugal last night, you have 72 hours to…

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