Yesterday Alex Sarama asked me recommendations for coaches to improve their methods. I told him I didn't have a one-fits-all recipe. All I could recommend was to question everything: knowing the WHY behind everything. 🧵👇 Copy-paste is a fraud.

Ancelotti in his presentation “After 40 years I still don’t know the system that wins games” “The system has to depend on the characteristics of the players you have, so that the player feels comfortable on the field. To take advantage of the enormous quality this country has”

Fantastic video, potentially revolutionary. As a plus it was amazing to see a learning design I coached used in the video, with the ecological dynamics underpinning seen and described so thoughtfully.

Further Reading: Learning in Development research framework for sports organizations tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… James Vaughan PhD Mark O'Sullivan PhD Training or Synergizing? Complex System principles change the understanding of sport process Rafel Pol sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

System Failure FC I think it was James Vaughan PhD who talked about how soccer- at its core- is a collaboration. Anywhere soccer is played, although it is a competition with winners & losers, we must agree on the nature of how we compete- meaning that in order to compete, we must first collaborate.

Nick Smallridge James Vaughan PhD Beautifully said. That’s the paradox that makes soccer so powerful— We compete within a shared understanding, not against it. Every game is a social contract. Collaboration is the foundation—without it, there’s no game at all.

Vårsäsongen 2025 är över – och som tränare bär jag med mig både stolthet och lärdomar. En tråd om utveckling, motgångar och driv. ⚽️🔻

JOGO FUNCIONAL Football&footballers shouldn't look the same in every corner of the 🌎 but we're living within of the homologation and standardisation starting by academies, their cultures, visions&organisations Top managements need to rethink their paradigms but is easier copy&paste everything

Tomorrow, as a once-off and due to popular demand, we will wear our 2025 FAI Cup jersey in the league to coincide with the start of the Oasis Live '25 Tour. 📦 Available now for dispatch globally: oasis-bohemianfc.com

No amount of inspiration visits/outsourcing to private enterprises-consultants/skill apps/copy-paste ‘best practice/reductionist cognitive testing-can compete with the simplicity of having this as a philosophical grounding skysports.com/football/news/…

For real football learning, focus on representative, game-like practice to improve retention, adaptability, transfer, & decision-making. Isolated drills help with basics but shouldn’t be overrated—they offer less transfer & flexibility. Game-like training offers the best benefit!

"We all know that it is just gambling-The Dutch Football Association believes that "selection is impossible" between the ages of 6 and 11. Even later it is "almost impossible... but money rules". child- youth football is now a market-driven enterprise vg.no/sport/i/ny64B5…

Excited to share that I’ve been accepted into the MSc in Skill Acquisition for Sport at Munster Technological University! Thanks to all the mentors who have pushed me in this direction, Mark O'Sullivan PhD, James Vaughan PhD, and Big Picture Soccer to name a few. Munster Technological University MSc in Skill Acquisition for Sport MTU

🚨 BREAKING: Lionel Messi's free kick against Liverpool has been voted as the greatest Free kick in Football history 🤯

Saw this live - it was pretty good 👀

This is the greatest argument I’ve heard for why electric vehicles are better than gasoline-powered cars.

unc still got it..

In a football world of hyper physicality, pressing and set pieces, Argentina's La Nuestra is just different. Passing, moving, combining, deceiving, imagining, creating, failing... I guess there's a reason why József Bozsik calls Scaloni's Argentina 'the last football team'. 🧉

🙏🏻 James Vaughan PhD for joining England Futsal this evening & sharing your thoughts & work on relationism with the coaches from our High Performance Coach Mentor Programme. It sparked my mind, & understanding its socio-cultural roots was particularly fascinating & relevant to futsal

An absolutely brilliant session with my friend and colleague The University of Waikato 🎓 James Vaughan PhD this morning (NZ time).