The Sports Path Newsletter
Number 12
 December 2013 

 

  

Welcome to our Twelfth  FREE monthly newsletter 

 

 We are dedicated to the idea of using the web to support the development of soccer players and coaches 

If you missed any of our previous Newsletter please you can see them all in our archive here 


Soccer Coaching and the Web: A Guide to Support Player Development

Our Guide has already been well received by coaches and people in the game- 

 

Scott Armstrong,Director of Coaching,Space Coast United Soccer Club,Florida,posted this review on Amazon for the Guide:

'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The book is a blueprint on how to establish a well functioning blog.It gives lots of very useful resources to find great information that encompasses how to set up the blog, what software to use and where to find useful and specific tools to find your information and then share it. I am in the process of starting my first blog and after reading the book I feel I can take my blog from the idea of what I want to present to adding my first post with useful info.

The author has made this book very reader friendly and whether you are a novice or experienced blogger you will find lots of great ideas in this book for your players.I highly recommend this book'

 

Jacob Daniel,The Director of Coaching for Georgia Soccer said :

'A Great resource. This is an area in which I need to educate myself more so this book was timely'  
 

Phil Abbott,Director Academy Soccer Coach commented: 

This Guide clearly provides coaches at all levels with a valuable resource on leveraging technology to develop their players and themselves'

 

Click here for a Free PDF of Chapter 1 of this Guide

 

The Guide can be seen here on Amazon  at $19.95 ( £12.48) but we have an special Introductory Offer of 25% discount  for Subscribers like you to our Newsletter - a saving of $5 or £3

To take advantage of this offer at a special rate of 25 % discount then follow these simple instructions:

Read & Listen here to the well known Australian Coach Educator,Wayne Goldsmith,talking about DECREASING the amount of training but INCREASING the
quality of coaching 

Research by Danish FA of 100 children's matches recommends 8v8 for 10-13 year olds

This research is based on a total of 100 children's and youth matches, which were recorded, analysed, and reviewed.In total, around 600 U8 to U14 players participated in the study (including both boys and girls)

'We noted that although there were many ball possession per player in the 9v9 game  most passes occurred across the field - a type of passes which cannot be considered as particularly challenging for the players.'

English Version of Report Here  

 Danish FA website including videos here http://www.dbu.dk/spilleformer

 


New Online Resources for Coaches

Brainshark

We are great fans of Brainshark (http://www.brainshark.com/) which lets users create, share and track online video presentations that can be viewed at any time. Many of its Services are FREE and users can also turn presentations into YouTube videos.

To create a Brainshark, you upload a PowerPoint deck or other business content (e.g. document, image, or video) to the hosted site and then use the telephone or computer microphone to record voice narration.You can add additional features such as polls, quizzes, attachments, etc. The final presentation can be delivered via a Web link or can be embedded in a Web page, and you can track various statistics, including who viewed your presentation and receive reports and alerts of viewing activity.

They have now developed a Free app to view PowerPoint on iPad, iPhone, or iPod See free PowerPoint app !   Download the Free SlideShark App 



December  2013 Recommendations


Ricky Clarke 
Ricky has collated a number of sessions from well known coaches into a FREE ebook. The details of this ebook and other FREE resources are available here : http://rickymastercoach.com/free-downloads/

  

 Talent in the 21st Century 

  

 Free Report of a Conference on the secrets of identifying, attracting, developing, retaining and releasing talent to create world class performance environment  including contributions from the Soccer World here 

 
I hope you have found something useful in this month's newsletter.If so please pass on this email to your colleagues and ask them to sign up for future newsletters
Festive Greetings to all our hundreds of subscribers throughout the world
We can promise you more material in our January 2014 newsletter to help you use the web to support coach and player development
 
Yours Sincerely,
 
Robin Russell 
RRussell@sportspath.com
 
PS On December 13th I was very proud to receive a Lifelong Contribution to Coach Education Award at the Inaugural FA Licensed Coaches Club Awards Dinner.Pictured below with Jimmy Armfield,Dick Bate and Charles Hughes
 

 

  


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