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Recognition of a footballing philosophy - FCB
Category: Coaches Education on 10 Dec 2010
Recognition of a footballing philosophy

Original article can be found @ SportsIllustrated

By: Sid Lowe La Masía nurtures Barcelona’s philosophy for technical excellence’

Date: December 9, 2010



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Houston Dynamo partner with Mexican youth club
Category: Coaches Education on 09 Dec 2010

It is not exactly the soccer version of NAFTA, but the Houston Dynamo hope they are starting a trend that will lead to increased movement of youth soccer players between the United States and Mexico.

Or, at least, between Houston and Jalisco, as the Dynamo Academy will be partnering with Cocula F.C. of the Mexican Tercera División to encourage player exchanges and, hopefully, create a pipeline of Guadalajara-area talent to Houston.

 

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Pep Guardiola is getting Barcelona to live the dream
Category: Coaches Education on 08 Dec 2010
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Total fitness from the land of Total Football
Category: Coaches Education on 07 Dec 2010

Nearly 40 years after Netherlands legends Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff unleashed Total Football on an unexpecting world, along comes a Dutchman espousing a new philosophy - periodisation.

If it is a concept that is unlikely to ever acquire Total Football's sexy cache, Raymond Verheijen believes periodisation - in essence a less is more approach to training - is important in allowing clubs to protect their key asset - players.

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Real Salt Lake Official Open Combine at Grande Sports World
Category: Coaches Education on 29 Nov 2010
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NorthBay Elite Fútbol Club (NBEFC) announces Matt Bernard as DOC
Category: Coaches Education on 29 Nov 2010
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What it takes to be great - Painful and demanding practice and hard work
Category: Coaches Education on 23 Nov 2010

Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success.
The secret?
Painful and demanding practice and hard work
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(Fortune Magazine) -- What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway (Charts) Chairman Warren Buffett the world's premier investor? We think we know: Each was a natural who came into the world with a gift for doing exactly what he ended up doing. As Buffett told Fortune not long ago, he was "wired at birth to allocate capital." It's a one-in-a-million thing. You've got it - or you don't.

Well, folks, it's not so simple. For one thing, you do not possess a natural gift for a certain job, because targeted natural gifts don't exist. (Sorry, Warren.) You are not a born CEO or investor or chess grandmaster. You will achieve greatness only through an enormous amount of hard work over many years. And not just any hard work, but work of a particular type that's demanding and painful.

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Hristo Stoitchkov
Category: Coaches Education on 10 Nov 2010
"Just hearing the name Real Madrid makes me want to vomit."
 
"the utilization of talent identification and development"
Category: Coaches Education on 01 Nov 2010
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The Creation of a Soccer Nation in America
Category: Coaches Education on 28 Oct 2010
Don Garber was never a soccer junkie. He didn't play as a kid, and up until the late 1990s, he was less than educated on the sport. Click here to read more..
 
"All you can do is try to work as hard as you can, learn from them, take what you can," Wondolowski
Category: Coaches Education on 28 Oct 2010
If Chris Wondolowski had stuck with baseball, he might be the sort of guy who played four years at a Division II college, spent time in the minors, worked his way up to the majors and, when given a chance to start, led the majors with 48 home runs. Click here to read more...
 
"English generation may be even less golden than the last"
Category: Coaches Education on 28 Oct 2010

Hey US, Lets follow their lead......Developmental Academy anyone?????

"The verdict brought by the voters is a statement of near bankruptcy in the way English football tries to groom the best of its young talent." Click here to read more

 
Developing Young Athletes for the Long Term
Category: Coaches Education on 26 Oct 2010

Originally published in the Jan/Feb. 2010 Long Angeles Sports & Fitness.

A representative from a nation’s basketball federation inquired about my interest in the position of the federation’s Technical Director. During the conversation, he stressed the importance of understanding Canada’s development model. While unfathomable to people in the United States, sports federations around the world no longer envy the U.S. model. Instead, sports bodies interested in developing Olympic athletes and world champions copy the models of Canada, Australia and Great Britain, the early adopters of Istvan Balyi’s Long Term Athlete Development model.

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Toronto FC Academy: The soccer factory
Category: Coaches Education on 25 Oct 2010

Doneil Henry is tarnishing the image of the self-indulgent, pampered young professional athlete.

Two months after he began cashing paycheques for playing soccer, the teenager has not gone on any shopping sprees. Rather than a fancy car, the only transportation at his disposal are the GO train, streetcar, bus and subway he spends more than three hours on each day travelling from his family home in Brampton to work and back.

 
San Juan Soccer Club has agreed to a merger with Cal Rush
Category: Coaches Education on 17 Oct 2010
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Xavi Hernandez reveals secrets of Barcelona's success
Category: Coaches Education on 15 Oct 2010

"I was 11 when I arrived, and the football philosophy of this club was drilled into me from the off. The most important thing is a willingness to learn. The philosophy is that the result is not important. We were taught to play triangles and move the ball around."

“You pick up good habits like learning the strengths of your teammates and always playing with your head up. Playing intelligently, passing to the right foot of a right-footed player or the left of a player who prefers the left. Before you get the ball you have to know what you are going to do with it. You can see the results of that development, with eight or nine key players in the Barcelona first team having come through the ranks. They are the base on which the team is built."

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So You Wanna Be An MLS Coach
Category: Coaches Education on 15 Oct 2010
By Michael Lewis - NEW YORK, NY (Sep 17, 2010) US Soccer Players -- In the wake of Preki getting fired by Toronto FC on Tuesday, it might be wise to take a look at the history of how MLS coaches have come, gone, and fared through the League's first 15 years. Click here to read more...
 
Cruyff’s Corner: “The solution is to lighten the calendar”
Category: Coaches Education on 15 Oct 2010

The following is a translation of Johan Cruyff’s weekly article in El Periodico.  The original can be found here.

Cruyff’s Corner: “The solution is to lighten the calendar”

 
MLS Reserve League, "We’re getting rid of guest players...
Category: Coaches Education on 15 Oct 2010
Columbus Crew technical director Brian Bliss spoke with me on Friday and opened up a bit about Major League Soccer’s new reserve league expected to emerge in 2011. Bliss became technical director of the Crew in 2008 after a 20-year career as player and coach in the U.S. and abroad. His credits include 33 caps and two goals as a defender with the U.S. Men’s National Team featuring in the 1988 Olympics and 1990 World Cup, five seasons with Carl Zeis Jena in the second division of the Bundesliga, and 50 MLS games 1996-1998, playing 31 of those games for the Crew. Click here to read more
 
"Young players need a little bit of patience and they’re not very consistent in their performances"
Category: Coaches Education on 15 Oct 2010

SA: What’s the advantage for a young U.S. player to go to Mexico?
TE KLOESE:
There’s things that are very good in the U.S. and there’s a few things that Mexico maybe has a little bit of an advantage.

I think at Tigres we have a system that allows for a smoother transition from the youth level to the pro level.

An 18-year-old kid can be the very best on his MLS academy league team, but it’s very difficult for him to make a big difference in MLS. It’s difficult for him to get playing time and to get confidence to get better.

They need a lot of playing time and competition -- but competition within reason. It’s difficult with an MLS club when suddenly you go from youth soccer to competing with a Designated Player.

Not everything’s perfect in Mexico. Not by far. But our U-20s and U-17s play the same schedule as the first team. Our U-20s won the league last season and are first at the moment.

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