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Gary is joined UEFA A licensed coach and U9-U12 Colorado Rapids Director of Coaching, David Garcia to discuss how youth coaches can coach a possession based and/or positional play system. How should training be structured? What is the role of opposed versus unopposed training? How can we teach players resilience alongside tactics and the game? David discusses all of this, along with his unique coaching journey that took him from New York to Spain to work in full time soccer and develop his philosophy. 

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David Garcia - Implementing a Possession System with a Youth Team

Gary is joined by Discoveries academy manager, Ally Bain, who as a wealth of experience at both youth and senior levels in UK and the United States. 

Ally takes the topic of build-up play and gives an in-depth perspective on the following: 

- Philosophy in possession
- Session design
- Opposed or unopposed
- Dealing with mistakes from players
- Measuring a successful build
- Sources of inspiration for creativity 

All of this and much, much more!! 

Have you checked out the new Modern Soccer Coach Community Platform yet?

Launched this month, it is a new concept, specifically designed for all coaches to get access to in-depth work, share new and potentially diverse ideas, and have the option of discussing topics within the game that will change on a daily basis.

Coaches who register will have immediate access to over 200 training exercises, all animated and organized into set categories (perfect for preseason planning) but the goal of it is to be more than just a session sharing site so every day you will get fresh new content that will provide context, detail, creativity… some aspects that are missing in social media at the minute.

All coaches can register right away for a free two week trial period to check it out…

bit.ly/modernsoccercoach

Ally Bain: Coaching Build-Up Play

Gary is joined by Lee Scott, Lead Analyst for Total Football Analysis and author of the brand new book,  “Mastering the Premier League - The Tactical Concepts Behind Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City”

Lee discusses the aspects of the book that stood out to Gary:  evolution of recruitment, player profiling, structure vs creativity, Pep’s management style, coaching jargon, how to beat this City team and much more!!

This podcast is brought to you by Heja, a free and simple all-in-one team communication app for all you coaches, team managers, parents and players out there, for easy and simple interaction with your whole team on a daily basis.

Instead of juggling email conversations, messaging apps and spreadsheets, Heja was designed by coaches and players themselves to bring you smooth communication with everyone on the team, and easily organise your games and training sessions right there in the app.

If you’re coaching more than one team, Heja makes it simple to manage all of them in one place. Players can easily mark their availability to upcoming events with the “going” and “not going” feature, and even leave a note to tell you why they might not be joining that practice!

If you haven’t already checked out the app, please go to modernsoccercoach.com/heja ... from there you can click your way over to the App Store and Google Play to download it for free and try it out for your team.

It only takes minutes to sign up ,and it’s 100% FREE for everyone to use!

Lee Scott - The Tactical Concepts Behind Guardiola's Man City

Gary is joined by Dr. Jonathan Fader, a Sport & Clinical Psychologist with 11 years experience in some world class sports environments such as New York Giants and New York Mets. He has just released a new book called 'Coaching Athletes to Be Their Best: Motivational Interviewing in Sports.'

Gary wants to challenge his own views on motivation and specifically how it applies to the current state of the game with variables like pay-to-play, scholarships, parent influence, commitment levels, and how they impact our coaching and cultures. 


November’s Modern Soccer Coach webinar will be on Wednesday November 20 and the topic will be ‘Set Pieces’ 

We will have a couple of special guests and discuss:
- Attacking set pieces
- Defensive set pieces
- Effective ways to train them
- How to scout them in opposition
- Zonal v man marking

and lots more…

The webinar will be FREE to all members of the Modern Soccer Coach Community Platform… you also get access to ALL THE CONTENT on there…a range of webinars, 250+ exercises and weekly content,… go online and take a look… 

www.modernsoccercoach.com/community

Dr. Fader - The Challenges of Motivating Teams and Individuals

Our goal is to bring in-depth content to coaches with a combination of interviews, chats, and personal thoughts on the topics that really matter in the beautiful game and elite-level sport. Enjoy and thanks for listening! - Gary