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This book presents answers to these questions by discussing the key academic research that is integral to coaching practice, before providing actual specific examples that demonstrate how these theories can be applied within the coaching environment and more specifically within the coaching practice of a football coach.
List of contents
SECTION IThe Principles of Coaching
1 Coaching Pedagogy
JAMES MAYLEY
2 Understanding and Creating Your Own Coaching Philosophy
MATT GRAHAM
3 Creating an Optimal Coaching Environment for Learning
JAMES MAYLEY
SECTION II
Understanding Coaching Practice
4 Coaching in the Foundation Phase
NEIL SCOTT AND ANDREW O. TRIGGS
5 Coaching in the Youth Development Phase
NOEL DEMPSEY AND ROB CARLISLE
6 Coaching Within the Professional Development Phase
MICHAL PUJDAK
7 Goalkeeper Coaching
JAMES MAYLEY
SECTION III
The Game Model Approach
8 Origins of the Game Model
MIKE WALSH
9 An Alternative Game Model Approach
MIKE WALSH
10 How to Build an Alternative Game Model
MIKE WALSH
11 Implementing Tactical Periodisation and a Game Model
WAYNE GOODISON
SECTION IV
Wider Player Support
12 Using Performance Analysis to Improve Performance
CLAIRE MULVENNA AND PATRICK OXENHAM
13 Supporting Individual Development (Technical)
CARL WILD
14 Supporting Individual Development (Psychology)
DAN TRAFFORD
SECTION V
Coach Development: A Commitment to Lifelong Learning
15 Reflective Practice
MATT GRAHAM
16 Mentoring
CARL WILD
17 Coach Development
DEAN HUGHES AND STACY HUGHES
About the author
Carl Wild is a Senior Lecturer and the Course Leader for Football Coaching and Management at the Manchester Campus, University Campus of Football Business (UCFB). Carl is a UEFA A and UEFA Elite Youth A licensed coach and has more than twenty years of coaching experience across a range of contexts, including grassroots football and within professional youth academies for both male and female players. He is currently a coach developer, as well as a quality developer for the Football Association (FA) and he has also previously been an FA Coach Mentor. Carl is also a successful published author and has written two books, which have a focus on football coaching:
The Intelligent Soccer Coach (2021).
Essential Practices for Player Development (2022). He is currently the consulting coach for
Soccer Coach Weekly.
Summary
This book presents answers to these questions by discussing the key academic research that is integral to coaching practice, before providing actual specific examples that demonstrate how these theories can be applied within the coaching environment and more specifically within the coaching practice of a football coach.
