Modern Soccer Coach Podcast

Gary is joined by Candice Fabry, Founder and Mentor at Fearless & Capable – a female led mentorship program for women working in sport. She also has extensive experience as a coach and in the coach education world as well. Candice talks about life – balance and coaching: - Is it possible or just a myth? - How can we manage the hectic world of coaching and family life? - How important is happiness in your work? All this and more in this conversation.. Please subscribe on YouTube for more FREE MSC content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU_n6cNknf6JlgnoVWEyTWw Also check out Candice's work at Fearless and Capable: https://www.fearlessandcapable.com/site/about

Gary is joined by Head of Performance Analysis at Maccabi Haifa FC, Adam David. He has also worked in analysis and scouting for Hapoel Tel Aviv FC and Performance Analyst in Chelsea academy. Adam shares his insight into the role of video analysis at professional level, and the journey in terms of what it takes to get there including: - Ways to connect with players on video analysis - Communicating with coaching staff - Linking video analysis to data and scouting - Getting a job at a professional club - Building frameworks and structures around analysis This podcast is brought to you by Spiideo. Spiideo is a complete video solution with automated capture, used for analyzing and live streaming soccer. It's always live and ready to go, an unparalleled tool,easy to use, so you can focus on what matters - coaching your team. Please check Spiideo out on the link below.... https://hubs.ly/Q0132JyK0

Gary is joined by David Charlton to discuss 'Demystifying Mental Toughness'. David is the Owner of Inspiring Sporting Excellence and is a HCPC Sports and Exercise Psychologist. You can check out his work at https://www.sport-excellence.co.uk/ This is part two of the interview… part one is David interviewing Gary on a coaches viewpoint on the mental side of the game. The interview is available below: https://www.sport-excellence.co.uk/demystifying-mental-toughness-podcast/ Huge thank you to all the coaches who attended our recent MSC Virtual HS Coaches Conference on January 8 – 12 presenters throughout the day. If you missed it, you can get on-demand access and all the replays at: https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/product-page/virtual-high-school-coaches-conference

Gary previews the upcoming MSC Virtual High School Coaches Conference on Saturday, January 8th with Todd Beane, Donna Fishter, Cody Royle, Bri Brown and Nicole Surdyka. You can find out more and register for the event here: https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/product-page/virtual-high-school-coaches-conference To read more about the presenters: https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/post/msc-high-school-virtual-conference-2022

Gary is joined by a panel of High School soccer coaches: Nick Martin, Nicole Arsenault, Dan Rudolph, and Adam Scott, to discuss the specific challenges that they face throughout the high school season. This podcast is in preparation for the MSC Virtual High School Coaches Conference on January 8th. There will be a full day of online presentations from some of the best presenters in the world! Please take advantage of the early registration special on the link below: https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/product-page/virtual-high-school-coaches-conference We are also joined by Ulearnbly founder, Gerard Jones. Ulearnbly is an Online Learning space for Coaching. Please check out their courses below: https://ulearnbly.com/

Gary is joined by Greece assistant coach, Michael Valkanis, to discuss his role during the recent World Cup qualification period. A former professional and Australia national team player, Michael has also worked as head coach with Melbourne City and assistant coach with PEC Zwolle in the Dutch Eredivisie. During the interview Michael discusses: - The importance of flexibility in a game model - Experience of coaching against Sergio Busquets - Importance of tempo and intensity in Greece training sessions - Building strong team spirit in a national team camp - The 'Gladiator Arena' of coaching today And much more!!! On Saturday, January 8th, Modern Soccer Coach will host our inaugural online High School Coaches Conference, aimed at specifically at coaches working with high school aged players (14-18 years old). The aim of the one-day event will be for coaches to get a toolkit of resources that they can use for the upcoming season. We will have world class presenters sharing their insights into specific asp

Gary is joined by the first Iranian-American to carry a FIFA A coaching license, Kat Khosrowyar. She is the former Iran Under 19 National team Head Coach and was nominated best coach of Asia in 2019. In this interview she discusses.... - Growing Iranian women’s league from 40 women to over 2 million - Changing FIFA legislation on religious head-wear - Developing players at international level - Recent help in rescuing Afghan female soccer players from Taliban And more!! If you enjoy this episode, please give it a shout-out on social media! Also - we are posting more FREE content on our YouTube page, please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/curneen16

Gary is back for a new series and is joined by Programme Leader in Football Coaching & Management at UCFB, Chester City Lead Coach (U9s-U14s) and author of 'The Intelligent Soccer Coach' Carl Wild. Carl discusses how coaches can improve their preparation, execution, and review of training sessions, as well as tips on how to improve connecting with players and designing sessions to suit and challenge every age group. 'The Intelligent Soccer Coach' is available now on Amazon on the link below... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intelligent-Soccer-Coach-Player-Centered-Confident/dp/1782552251 Please check out Gary Curneen's new Ebook on Positional Exercises for Forwards on the link below... https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/product-page/25-positional-exercises-for-forwards Enjoy the Modern Soccer Coach content? Please subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/curneen16 Please follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/modernsoccercoach/?hl=en

Gary is joined by England Futsal Team Head Coach & technical performance manager, Michael Skubala, to discuss lessons and detail from the futsal game including: - Facilitating decision making in the game - Managing an average of 80 substitutions per game - Technical and tactical demands of world class futsal players - Coaching accountability in moments of transition - 'My Game, Our Game, Your Game' tactical methodology And much more!!! If you are a coach who is looking for tactical analysis software, we highly recommend KeyFrame. They are one of the most efficient, effective and affordable solutions for coaches looking to build graphics and animations alongside their analysis work and are perfect for player meetings and remote learning. Click on the link below to find out more: https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/post/wide-attacking-rotations-in-a-4-3-3 To check out a little more about Michael's work with England, here is a fantastic article detailing his culture and environment there: https://thebootr

Gary is joined by Lead Sports Scientist – Southampton FC Womens and Girls. She has also recently worked as first team sport scientist at Southampton, as well as the academy at Southampton and Aston Villa. In this interview, she gives fantastic insight here around the topic of pre-season training with tips for coaches as well as insights from her journey and career. This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at HEJA. (go.heja.app/msc) On Heja’s free team management app, You can see exactly who reads the information you send out and, unlike whatsapp or a group chat, you can organise your training times and details using a separate team calendar within the app that’s easy for everyone to view, meaning those all important dates and times do not get lost in a buzzing group chat. Surprisingly, Heja is actually free-to-use for your whole team, and we recommend you download it now and give it a go to save yourself some time and get your team better organised and all together this season. You can search in you

Gary is joined by Hartford Athletic head coach, Harry Watling, to discuss his transition from working with youth players to senior professionals. Before managing the USL club, Harry has worked at Chelsea, West Ham, and Milwall academies. He discusses: - Individual development plans and how to they transfer to professional levels - Role of mentors who have helped challenge and support him - Session design and the processes he has in place with staff and match schedules And much more!! This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at HEJA. (go.heja.app/msc) On Heja’s free team management app, You can see exactly who reads the information you send out and, unlike whatsapp or a group chat, you can organise your training times and details using a separate team calendar within the app that’s easy for everyone to view, meaning those all important dates and times do not get lost in a buzzing group chat. Surprisingly, Heja is actually free-to-use for your whole team, and we recommend you download it now and g

Gary is joined by Tactical and Video Analyst from Statsbomb, Carlon Carpenter, to discuss ways that college and club coaches can plan to maximize and communicate their analysis for the upcoming season. Carlon shares his experiences as an analyst from US Youth National Team and University of Virginia, as well as his insights from Statsbomb to help coaches in the following areas: - Make analysis work on a limited budget - Organized your staffing effectively - Link analysis to your training exercises - Communicate effectively as an analyst - Build post-game review process for the team and staff And much more!! This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at HEJA. (go.heja.app/msc) On Heja’s free team management app, You can see exactly who reads the information you send out and, unlike whatsapp or a group chat, you can organise your training times and details using a separate team calendar within the app that’s easy for everyone to view, meaning those all important dates and times do not get lost in a bu

Gary is joined by Karl Marius Aksum to discuss a very unique topic. Karl is a current PhD Candidate researching Visual Perception in Elite Football. He has a Master's Degree in Coaching and Psychology and wrote his Master's thesis on visual perception in real football match play on AFC Ajax players, aged 14-20, from where I received the highest possible grade He also has a Bachelor's Degree in Football Coaching. He discusses: - Importance of scanning and visual awareness - Difference between scanning and fixation - Exercises that help develop better awareness - If rondo's actually make scanning worse - How to implement better processes in our youth environments And much more! This podcast is sponsored by our good friends at HEJA. (https://go.heja.app/msc) On Heja’s free team management app, You can see exactly who reads the information you send out and, unlike whatsapp or a group chat, you can organise your training times and details using a separate team calendar within the app that’s easy for everyone

Gary is joined by Sanjeev Parmar, a youth development expert who runs Futuro Soccer Academy in Ottawa, Canada. He has a unique approach and philosophy around development and talks about the following: - Training exercises that engage the players - Being competitive without focusing on result - Importance of physical training alongside technical - Educating parents in the process And much more!!! We have teamed up with Wildkard for this podcast. Wildkard's all-in-one app empowers you to manage your team or club, plus create social engagement directly with players. Your team can stay connected beyond game-time with blazingly-fast features like chat, virtual challenges, game recaps, and profiles. They've recently launched club management so you can easily manage 100s of teams, delegate responsibility, and communicate with everyone in your club simply. A desktop version of club management comes out mid-June - where you can import thousands of teams, events, and rosters in one click, and manage your entire cl

Gary is joined by Eric Laurie who is currently working in Norway, Molde FK in the Norwegian Eliteserien, as Head of Academy Performance Analysis and a coach on the U16 staff. Eric discusses analysis at youth level as well as the career path for a young analyst in the professional game. This podcast is sponsored by Wildkard.Wildkard is the industry's 1st social and admin platform for teams. With Wildkard, you engage via virtual challenges, team channels, game reports, and player stats. They just launched the parent-mode feature. Allowing coaches to group players and parents, so parents are up-to-date. Parents love it! Coaches can take advantage of a special promotion - sign up your team in April and get the product for FREE, no hidden fees. Wildkard is easy to use. Team setup takes only two minutes. Register below.... https://bit.ly/3t3C1m5

Last week I sat down with the Double Pass team of Jared Micklos, Hans Vander Elst, Kevin Nicholson, and Stig Meylemans. Double Pass is a Belgian company that assesses and advises football clubs, (con)federations and leagues around the world, on ways in which they can optimize their talent development. In March 2020, FIFA enlisted them as a partner to roll out a new ‘Talent Development Progamme’. Double Pass make potential improvements visible on our Club & Academy Monitoring Platform (CAMP) using a unique methodology based on their scientific model and proprietary algorithms. Their experienced staff also help to implement tailor-made solutions alongside the clubs and coaches. If you would like to find out more about the Double Pass Master Class, which is designed to help coaches gain insights into the challenges and opportunities of running an elite football academy and optimizing its football technical management, please click below. The course is over 70 hours and includes 5 different chapters, webinars,

We were recently joined by TOVO Director, Todd Beane, to be the first to achieve a hat-trick of appearances on MSC for Todd, having previously done a podcast in 2018 and then a special guest slot at the MSC Roadshow event in Chicago in 2019. This chat was a little different and centered around the personality and leadership capabilities of the coach, so that they can maximize the impact on culture and environment. Todd has recently written a book called 'Clear Coaching', which he wrote this year and shares insights and perspectives on the youth landscape and what we can do to improve the experience for players and families. Would you like to support and continue the free content at Modern Soccer Coach? The MSC Lockdown Webinar Series is now available to download! For just over $1 per webinar, you can personally download all TWENTY FIVE webinar presentations. Each webinar is over one hour long and features a detailed presentation, followed by the live Q&A with the coaches in attendance. Our covered topics

Gary is joined by the scorer of the first ever goal in the FA Premier League in 1992, Brian Deane. He also played in the Premier League for Leeds United and Middlesbrough as well as playing top-flight football in Portugal and Australia for Benfica and Perth Glory, as well as England. He was also the manager of the Norwegian side Sarpsborg 08 and club owner of Football Superleague of Kosovo side Ferizaj. This podcast is sponsored by Wildkard. Wildkard is a social engagement platform for youth sports teams. From creating programs to managing schedules, Wildkard runs your team on autopilot. If you are a youth coach who not only wants to communicate with players on scheduling, but also wants to engage with them on videos, feedback, conversations around the game, then I highly recommend GETTING YOUR FREE TRIAL HERE: https://bit.ly/3lWGN06

Gary is joined by New York Red Bulls Academy Director, Sean McCafferty. He discusses his journey working as Director with FC Barcelona’s Barca Residency Academy in Casa Grande, Arizona, before moving to the Red Bulls and talks about the following: - How Barcelona make the complex simple - Coaching decision making and problem solving with US player - Is our game too transitional in US and UK? - What does he look for when hiring youth coaches for the academy? And a lot more!! Would you like to support and continue the free content at Modern Soccer Coach? The MSC Lockdown Webinar Series is now available to download! For just over $1 per webinar, you can personally download all TWENTY FIVE webinar presentations. Each webinar is over one hour long and features a detailed presentation, followed by the live Q&A with the coaches in attendance. Our covered topics include youth and elite player development, sport science, tactical analysis, match preparation, goalkeeping, pressing, and other key specific areas.

Gary Curneen joins Vin Blaine to discuss pressing systems in the modern game. This is an exert from Vin's podcast 'On The Sideline' and they talk about the following: - Understanding pressing 'triggers' - How a culture off the field must compliment the work on it - Creating player profiles - How to get to the details in training sessions You can order a copy of the Pressing book here: https://www.modernsoccercoach.com/product-page/modern-soccer-coach-pressing The 2nd edition of the Miami Soccer Convention is coming on December 17th & 18th, 2020 completely online! Go to www.soccercovention.com or @soccercovention on instagram to get more information. This week starts the unveiling of our top tier presenters that include former and current experienced coaches working in MLS, national teams, top South American clubs, former Copa Sudamericana Champions, and also a former player with Champions League and Italian National team experience from teams such as AC Milan & Juventus. Go to www.soccercovention.com or @