I thought Football teams were supposed to have even numbers?
In this piece, authors GJ, JD & MK, discuss aspects of designing and coaching sessions focusing on numerically un-balanced teams.
Über GJ
Language In Coaching: How To Create And Use Terminology
This article will try to give some insight into creating a helpful terminology for coaching, mostly relating to the coach’s game model, utilizing basic insight about the game itself.
How (not) to constrain your principles.
The game of football is a game with a specified purpose, laws and means. Two teams are facing off against each other with the objective of scoring a goal utilizing the ball. These rules are the same all around the globe. Similarly, the principles following these laws of the game will be the same – as will be the purpose of training. Football is a game that is trained and therefore coached, with most coaches focusing on doing so within their specific interpretation of these principles, for attacking, defending and the transition in both directions between these two.
An Interview with Ben Bartlett.
SV.com author George Jones had the pleasure of interviewing FA Senior Youth Coach Developer Ben Bartlett (@BenBarts) regarding his views on coaching, developing a philosophy, a constraints based approach and coach development in general.
A collection of 2018 ramblings.
Due to starting a new job in football at the end of December i wasn’t quite able to publish all of the work i had planned to write..
An Approach To Coaching Football (Part 1)
In this piece I have outlined an approach to coaching football, that will hopefully encourage thought and debate around how and why we coach.
SV Mailbag: Coaching and Training (October)
In the SV Mailbag, we answer questions from our followers. For this edition, George Jones answers your questions relating to coaching and training.
1v2 practices and a theory for implicit pressing practice design.
In this article I will discuss three practices I recently delivered, how they work, how coaches can incorporate elements of them into their own sessions, and a theory of designing practices to implicitly encourage high pressing.
SV Mailbag: Coaching and Training
In the SV Mailbag, we answer questions from our followers. For this edition, George Jones answers your questions relating to coaching and training.
World Cup Preview: England
We preview England, a youthful squad revamped under Gareth Southgate that hope to excite through high energy attacking play in an uncharacteristically English way.