Gary Piggott

Some interesting dialogue and opinions since the FutureFit youth football formats announcement and more to come I would imagine.
Some of my additional thoughts below.
Only positives from my perspective.

Are there any football / soccer coaches that I have not yet connected with?
If so, please get in touch 👍

It's essential that we as coaches continually evolve and be lifelong learners.
A great saying attributed to Albert Einstein is...
"There is no surer sign of insanity than doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".

10 of my favourite Inspirational Quotes.
Have you got any?

An excellent clip from a talk by Rod Thorpe on Skill Acquisition.

Simplicity is Genius

Coaching needs to be relevant for the age and stage of development the players are at.

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Building a Winning Team:
A superb insight into some of Liverpool's Academy considerations from Alex Inglethorpe (Link below)
Complimentary Skill Sets
Give Players Time
Help and Support
Give Opportunity
Care About the Individuals
Respect Others
Character
drive.google.com/file/d/1nTGk...

Repetition without Repetition Exploring the differences between Repetition without Repetition and Rote Learning

An article exploring Repetition without Repetition v Repetitive Practice.
countycoachdevelopment.substack.com/p/repetition...

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Helping Develop Decision Making in Football

This Level 1 game, like many other simple to play games is often underrated and offers far more returns than many coaches might think or recognise.
A thread with a focus on Decision Making.
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Following my previous post, here are some questions we could ask ourselves, to help give it some additional context.

Linked to player's positions...

What can players currently do?
What can't players do yet?
What would we and they like to improve?
How are we going to help them improve?

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Football tends to be made up of small-sided games all over the pitch.

Do we spend enough time putting players into situations relevant to the position they will play in the game?

Would it be more beneficial for players to break it down into it's component parts?

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Something we all need to appreciate.

All Coaches and Players will learn in incremental stages,
these are logical stages of learning and this is not something we can circumvent, no matter how much we would like to.

Be patient and trust the process.

I wanted to take this opportunity to wish all my connections, associates and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year.

Hopefully, it's time for you to spend with or think of your loved ones 🎄❤️

Jar of Life:

We are all guilty of saying we're busy, but are we always focused on the right things.

Are we putting everything in our lives into some sort of perspective.

Have you or do you actually prioritize what's important in your life?

Consider the image.

Journey to Game:
What are you looking forward to today?
What are you going to try and do in the game?
What skills could you try and use?

Journey Home:
What did you enjoy most today?
What was the best thing you did?
Did you manage to do your skills?
Who do you think played well today?

Trying to ensure that they are always both positive and supportive.
The main aim should be to keep players motivated and looking forward to the next time they play, so there should be no negativity from the adults perspective.
Here are some questions that I might ask my son or daughter.

Will, here are some thoughts.
I would imagine that your son being in the team is more immersed in football conversations than many others.
Something I talk about regularly to grassroots coaches is the effect of the car conversations both to and from games or training.

Agree Mark,
It is an excellent listen and both of the guys do some great work.
As I regularly mention to grassroots coaches is, many of the tools I might give them will make more work for them, knowing that they are already time poor.
It's a huge challenge for them and instructing is sadly quicker.

Helping Children Learn:

I'm hoping the link works okay.
I think this would be very beneficial to many Coaches working with young Players.
Watch 2 or 3 times to understand the messages in it and put it into your coaching context.

Let me know how you get on.

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Film by RSA Animate

In addition to my last posts...
Here are some other things we need to consider that may limit a player's progression occasionally.

We as Coaches cannot bypass learning. Players need to learn the game and become more skilful, which will happen if they regularly have the opportunities to Practice, Compete and Experiment.
Image shows the many different stages of learning they need to go through.

Our role in this is to give them plenty of opportunities to work on these in small sided games eg: 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 2v1, 3v2 etc and then help and guide them, when needed. Slowly but surely they will improve, as they begin to work things out.
Questions they might ask themselves?

Good to hear you felt the session went well Lewis, if there was only one thing you would change, that's positive.
I hope you got positive feedback from whoever your developer is.

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