The Sports Path Newsletter
Number 39
   March 2016
EXCLUSIVE 'EARLY BIRD ' 50% DISCOUNT FOR SPORTS PATH NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS to The International Coaching and E- Learning Conference and Exhibition 

The Largest global gathering of professionals working in Player Development and Coach Education in 2016 
 
 As part of the International Sports Convention, in Geneva, Switzerland on December 7th and 8th 2016, I am organizing a two day Conference on 'Football Development and E- Learning' Brochure details here
 As a subscriber to the Sports Path Newsletter I would like to invite you to take advantage of the exclusive promotion to this event - details here
You can see from the list of speakers here that the Conference in December will be showcasing good practice in the fields of Football Development and E - Learning from around the world including Africa, Asia, North America and Europe
I am pleased that we have a range of expert speakers who have considerable practical experience in football development from across the world together with some exciting presenters in new fields - like the use of the web and drones in developing young players
 This event will therefore be the largest global gathering of professionals working in Football Development and Education in 2016 and the ONLY event dedicated to the web and football education.
 If you wait until the autumn to enroll for this Conference the cost will be over 1,000 Euros.
If other coaches enroll before the end of June the cost is 450 Euros but if you book through the Sports Path Newsletter offer before the end of June 2016 you will obtain a delegate pass for both days to both Conferences and the Exhibition for 315 Euros (about �125 or $180 per day)
 
To access this offer you need to start a new register on this link  and use the code robin30 .This will give access to the two football conferences and the exhibition on both days- IF BOOKED BEFORE THE END OF JUNE 2016
( Add that code to the option football development (day 1) and football coaching and e-learning (day 2) that will give you discounted  access to those 2 conferences and the exhibition on both days )
The Conference and event does provide an excellent opportunity for coaches like you to keep themselves up to date with developments from around the world, hear from experts in their field, network with global leaders in player development  and see at first hand some of the new products available in football development. For example we have signed up 5 Sponsors for this event and these include the following: 
  • Innovative goal posts from Bownet already endorsed by a number of FA's and Club Academies
  • Pioneering wearables to track player activity to be launched later this year by Dashtag
  • Inventive Learning Management Systems,Software,Drills,Sessions,Coaching Resources & Support for UEFA Coaching Courses from Academy Soccer Coach
  • New developments from  Double Pass - the world's reference in talent development systems  with more than  15 years of practical experience with over 500 clubs in Germany,Japan,Belgium,England,Denmark and the USA
  • Ground breaking Resources from The Coaching Manual
 PS We have negotiated attractive rates with local hotels and there is an abundance of cheap flights to Geneva at that time of the year

Great Analysis of Leicester City
by Dan Wright at the Player Development Project 

AN IN DEPTH ANALYSIS OF HOW LEICESTER CITY HAVE MANAGED TO DEFY THE STATISTICS AND IMPLEMENT A RUTHLESSLY EFFICIENT COUNTER ATTACKING GAME PLAN WHICH SEES THEM SITTING ON TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE HEADING INTO SPRING, 2016
COUNTER ATTACK
COUNTER ATTACK


Sports Path Awards   

The Sports Path Awards were launched in 2015 (details here ) to award $1,000 to the Youth Soccer Club that has developed the best Online Learning Network to support the development of coaches at their club. The Purpose of this award is to promote the use of the internet by clubs to support the development of their coaches
The Award was open to any Non Professional Soccer Club that can display its content for coaches in English
Judging Panel was created and more than 20 entries were received.
The decision of the Judging Panel was to award the $1,000 to Ricky Clarke, The Girls Director of Coaching Soccer Academy Chelsea, Atlanta, Georgia, and USA
Ricky created a full course on www.udemy.com for the players, parents and coaches of his club
The results of the top 3 are shown below   
 

NameTo access contentComments 
1.     Ricky Clarke, S Girls Director of Coaching Soccer Academy Chelsea,Atlanta,Georgia,USA

https://www.udemy.com/the-essential-guide-to-developing-technical-soccer-players
A Club curriculum for players, parents and coaches developed by Ricky using Udemy with a lot of self shot video

2.Sarah Fawcett, Technical Director of the female program,

Club, Roseville, California, USA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8migpvcrG_DKnsmu8Xfv-Q
You Tube Channel created and also an Instagram account for players and coaches using a lot of self shot video of the players
Some excellent playlists created
3.     Kevin Julian, Assistant Technical Director, Cliff Avenue United FC, Burnaby, Vancouver ,British Columbia, Canada

http://www.cliffavenuesoccer.com/coaches-resource.html
Byte Size Coaching + Videos

 

'What explains the unbelievable success of Icelandic football?'

That was the topic of the presentation given by
Siggi Eyjolfsson,the former Technical Director of the Icelandic FA  gave as an invited speaker at the Norwegian Cup Final Seminar in November organised by the Norwegian Football Trainers Association. 
Siggi has allowed us to show this presentation below.The presentation is in English but the very short introduction is in Norwegian 


 
These include :
  • Social function to create a community and allow coaches to create communities with other coaches and their own players
  • Tag content you like as ' Favourite'
  • Podcasts
  • Analysis of teams and big games 
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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
We can promise you more material in our April 2016 newsletter to help you use the web to support coach and player development 

Best Wishes  

 
Robin Russell 

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