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ICYMI: LATEST NEWS: Football SA to deliver revised Youth Competition structure for 2025 Read here 👇 #Football #Soccer #FootballNews

LATEST NEWS: Football SA to deliver revised Youth Competition structure for 2025 Read here 👇 #Football #Soccer #FootballNews

ICYMI: LATEST NEWS: Football Queensland and Roar Football in the Community program to capitalise on growth Read here 👇 #Football #Soccer #FootballNews

Football NSW has used their 2024 pier review to change the landscape for female development and competitions to support the growing popularity of the women's game. Read more below 👇 #FootballNSW #WomensFootball #FootballAustralia #FootballNews

#Coaches,#USL,#MLS & #Germany…. We work in #soccer in DFB , U.S. Soccer Federation and Canada Soccer since more than two decades and so far we focused on players. What about coaches? I think it’s fair to say that German coaches are doing pretty good (😉) in all over the world.. Just to name a few: Juergen Klopp/Liverpool Football Club , Roger Schmidt/Sport Lisboa e Benfica , Ralf Rangnick, Daniel Farke/Leeds United , André Breitenreiter/Huddersfield Town Football Club , Jupp Heynckes /former Real Madrid C.F., etc. , Felix Magath, etc. etc.. (I could fill this post with only mentioning names….) I always get asked why (real 😉) German coaches are so rare in United Soccer League (USL) , Major League Soccer or Canadian Premier League. Let try to analyse it: So let’s look at UEFA Champions League semi-final this season: Four clubs including the two power (and money) houses: Paris Saint-Germain /France and Real Madrid C.F. /Spain, but two (50%) German clubs with two German coaches: FC Bayern München with Thomas Tuchel, Borussia Dortmund with Edin Terzic! We all know that Germany has the 50%+1 rule so basically no investors like the other clubs in English Premier League , Seria A, etc., which means money is more limited and needs to be “earned”. We also know that the DFB professional coaching license is one of the most difficult to achieve, with the most time investment needed, etc. Coaches with DFB licenses are the most successful coaches world wide since many years. The 1 (in words: One) German coach right now in MLS, USL and CPL is Sandro Schwarz /New York Red Bulls in MLS and he never played in North America and he never coached in North America before and steps in and is immediately the most successful coach in 2024 in MLS (at the moment: 1.88 PPG)! Coaches need to make players better, coaches need to make teams better, coaches need to develop talents and need to bring success to their clubs! We started to work on a list of top German coaches who want to coach in America, who will fit fantastic to the USA & Canada within United Soccer League (USL) , Major League Soccer and Canadian Premier League and we are sure they will help North American soccer to continue its growth, but also raise the level of the game, the player development, the transfers of players to Europe/Germany (biggest market for North Americans by far) and also overachieve in all aspects for their club. #soccer is a world game so sometimes thinking out of the “domestic” box is the game changer….⚽️🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦🔝 Auf geht’s!

Scouts - how do you distinguish the vital few from the trivial many? 🤔 If you’re looking for the next non-league gem, you might get excited by a player who was in the academy system since he was 9, excelled in all the age groups, played in the FA Youth Cup but is currently at a non-league club having been released after his U18 season. Now aged 19-21 (let’s say), he sounds an interesting prospect to sign as a development player / fringe first team player. However, it turns out being released to the non-leagues after your u18 season is a hard setback to return from. From the past decade, thousands of players have been released after their scholarship at U18 to non-league football, yet of these players: •⁠ ⁠⁠No one has appeared in the Premier League. •⁠ ⁠No one has made 50 appearances in the Championship.  •⁠ ⁠40% signed by League One clubs were released back to the non-leagues within 2 years. So, if you’re a club looking to generate revenue from player sales, there are a million data points within our system suggesting you should be looking towards late developers on steep upwards trajectories. These players were not particularly interesting at 15, 16 or 17 but at 18, 19 and 20 are flourishing playing senior non-league football. These players have small profiles, less exciting CVs and they don’t appear on the usual online sources or data providers. To find players like Kellen Fisher (Bromley Football Club to Norwich City Football Club), Martial Godo (Margate FC to Fulham Football Club), Ollie Tanner (Lewes Football Club to Cardiff City Football Club) and Fletcher Holman (Eastbourne Borough Football Club to Wolves) you need to know how to distinguish the vital few from the trivial many. #NLG

🤔 How do you support & encourage young Talent to thrive? Access to opportunities is often a challenge. 💯 Young people need to try out new things. 💯 They need to explore and work out where their talents are. 💯 Giving them opportunities allows them grow & build in confidence. Rugby can sometimes be a challenge for some to try. 😬 It's not played at that many schools. 😬 It's a complex, contact sport with risks from concussion. 😬 It's eco-system doesn't always provide an inspiring future. 👏 Although England Rugby women's team have done a fantastic job recently of inspiring young girls to play - winning 3 grand slams in a row yesterday 👏 Over the past year it's been brilliant to have around 10 new players join our U15s squad at Tring Rugby Union Football Club. 🏉 They've wanted to come along and play with their mates. 🏉 They've had an enthusiasm and energy that has been infectious. 🏉 They've grown considerably as players in terms of skills and confidence. Picture: Taken from the Harrow RFC 10s development festival last weekend. 👏 Well played lads - it's great to see how far you've come. 🙏 Thanks to all the coaches in our squad - for being there week in week out to support the growth and development of our squad. Matthew Adams James Verstringhe James Lloyd-Townshend Thomas Lloyd-Evans Ben Radclyffe darrel sheinman Charles Blakey Simon Booth Roland Seddon 🙏 Tom Mowbray thanks for organising the coaching / player clinics throughout the season - really valuable. #rugby #teambuilding #youngtalent #opportunities #accessability #leadership #growth #confidence

Had a lovely time over the weekend poking through the CIES - Centre International d'Etude du Sport Football Observatory report on U21 players getting minutes at a professional level. 61 leagues were analysed with all the clubs ranked on the number of minutes given to U19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 players. It is fascinating to see. For example, when looking at U21 minutes,the first British side to appear is Sunderland AFC at 35th with 22.5% of their minutes going to U21 players. You don't see a Premier League side until Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club check in with 16.5%. It's really interesting to see how the split occurs between the top leagues and those that are more development based. Are clubs more likely to take a risk on young players in the lower leagues due to the A, the reward on developing a young player who can then be sold for good money, B, lower their wage bill with younger talent. It's also interesting to find those leagues that pride themselves on youth development and are investing as such. Take 30 minutes on your lunch break today and have a poke around, If you are interested at all in youth development, you will easily find yourself down the rabbit hole! https://lnkd.in/eh_qY7qf #football #soccer #youthdevelopment #talentid

How do we adapt weekly soccer plans to different scenarios? Find out in the following article by Efthymios Kyprianou and Francesco Farioli 👉 https://lnkd.in/dMVw-BBG #Soccer #WeeklyPlans #ComplementaryTraining

Rugby vs. American Football: Key Lessons North America Can Learn from Both Sports