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The best youth clubs I know don’t shout about success 📣 They invest in coaches 🧠⚽ Not just facilities 🏟️ Not just kits 👕 That’s why CDP14 offers: 🏟️ Club tickets (5 or 10 coaches → 40–50% off) 👤 Individual places too Align staff. Grow together 📈 CDP14 is open ⏳

For coaches committed to continuing their learning and professional development in 2026, we’d like to highlight one of the key ways we can further support your journey 👇 The #CoachesHub created by Garry Monk, is an online coach education environment designed to support

What a brilliant experience. Working with a technical director, club and coaches who were very forward thinking 👏 The game can look a little different for children. Equal opportunities to play, fun challenges, positive reinforcement. This is what Scoreboard Soccer is and more!

What’s Unique At TOVO we introduce all components to younger players as well as older players: (7-18 youth) ▪️ Congnitive Progressions We build complexity by increasing the number of players to outplay or defend. 4v4 to 11v11. But the principles are the same. #TOVO

Pep Guardiola Mikel Arteta Unai Emery …arguably the top three managers in the English Premier League right now. They are so perhaps, in part, because of their ability to absorb the metabolic cost of thinking deeply about the technical, tactical, physical, and mental sides of

Tip 17 - Give Specific Feedback If you want all 52 Tips in one go visit my Gumroad where I am running a “pay what you want” offer for the document. You can pay 50p, £1, £10 or £1000 if you want, it is completely up to you! #SundayShare #SundayShare

Are you involved in youth⚽️? Have you ever thought that young players are the best teachers for any coach? This blog outline why kids are our best source of information & indeed the best teachers? Learn about6⃣ great lessons that kids have thought me! ⤵️ bit.ly/3YIjMEd

Building muscle in the gym is stupidly simple. Football development works the same way. 🧵⚽️

My biggest lesson of 2025. Most coaches are living in fear. Not the fear of coaching, but of being seen. So here’s my 2026 message instead: Stop caring so much about sharing. No one is watching as closely as you think.

3v3 Two Pitch Transfer Transition Game Score and then move across to the other pitch Created with Sport Session Planner #TheYearOf3v3 Lee Cosgrove @rjpcoach Peter Thornton.🇺🇦 Gary Piggott CR Coaching Craig Rutherford Ray Power Osku Partonen JUST COACH Jamie Birch Ross Flintoft

Inside Jose Mourinho 3 Team Possession: Warm Up drill Sharing and Feedback is Welcome! youtu.be/KSBhl-LSJX8?si…

Rondos are cultural. The “same” rondo is played differently depending on where you are. 7+ minute clip of Pablo Zabaleta on the differences between Argentina, Spain, & England, & how that changes the way players play & coaches use it. Video of 12-Week Curriculum Meeting (1/4)

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Consider this for 2026 Instead of asking… “What are your goals for the next 5 years?” Ask… “How do you want to behave today?” #TOVO

Observation ✏️ Advantage to straight up training games like 7v7 we did today is that… Instead of wasting time on explaining elaborate constraints or coaching interventions, we can observe, observe, observe. Never underestimate the benefits of shutting up. 😩👍 #TOVO

Is the art of tackling a forgotten skill now? In youth football there is a hyperfocus on... Defensive structures Which way to show Pressing zones But what about how to: Stab Steal Slide Block

One of my favourite constraints: start the game with a 50/50 ball or duel. It forces players to win the ball, then immediately react to the second ball and find a way to escape the imminent press.

The First Attacker: Decision-Making & Execution | Time and Space. Time and space are two fundamental variables. Perceive in order to make decisions in situations that happen at high speed, based on the time and space you have when receiving and controlling the ball.

Coaches! Are you struggle with effective communication to your players? Here are 10 principles of effective communication based on my own 20 years of coaching/teaching experiences! ⤵️