Join Saul Isaksson-Hurst, 10 years experience as a Technical Football Coach in the Premier League with Chelsea FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC, as he chats to some of the worlds leaders in Youth Soccer Development. A podcast aimed at Soccer Players, Coaches and parents interested in the beautiful game and youth soccer player development.
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113 Juan Carlos Amorós NY/NJGotham FC Head Coach
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Juan Carlos Amorós is Head Coach NY/NJGotham FC Head Coach where he has cemented his position as one of the leading coaches in the Women's Pro game. This follows successful spells at Tottenham Women's, Real Betis and Houston Dash. Juan joins Glen and Saul to talk about his rise from grass roots football to the top of the Women's game.…
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112 Coaching Family Next Generation Coaches Matteo Esposito
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In this new series Saul invites some of the best young coaches emerging onto the show. Matteo Esposito has a huge Instagram following and also coaches at Arsenal in the Pre Academy. Matteo talks about his journey and how he's developed his methodology and his very successful coaching business.By MyFootballCoach
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111 Coaching Family Euros and Southgate Reflection. Next Gen Players
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The Virtual Academy Next Gen Club...This month Live classroom sessions with English and Scottish FA mindset specialist Steve Sallis. Luc Stolker ex Ajax Academy Coach also joins to deliver a technical challenge. Check out full coach list here.https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/the-virtual-academy-home/Glen and Saul are back reflecting on the Euros…
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110 JordI Condom Auli Barcelona Academy Coach
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Are you a coach who wants to up skill yourself?Check out the online courses, the Coach's Pass and the Online Downloadable Soccer Conference at MyPersonalFootballCoach https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/iamacoach/JordI Condom Auli joins Saul to discuss what goes on behind the scenes at Barcelona's Academy and what makes it one of the most successfu…
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109 João Tralhão Developing Champions League Players Coaching Family Special
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João Tralhão Ex Benfica Academy and Monaco 1st Team Coach joins Glen and Saul to discuss the best way of Developing Champions League Players.How can we stress and challenge players to prepare them for the game at the very highest level?By MyFootballCoach
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108 Coaching Family Special Developing Defenders
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Tim Bradbury, US Soccer Coach Educator joins Glen and Saul to discuss how to develop defenders. What is the best way to coach this and why does there seem to be such a shortage of quality defenders any the highest level?By MyFootballCoach
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107 Steve Sallis Mindset Consultant English FA
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Steve Sallis is one of the world leaders in mindset development. He Joins Saul and Glen to discuss how we can maximise mindset development not only in our players but in us as coaches also. Check out Steves first book 'Educating Football' which has literally changed the game and his soon to be released follow up 'How not to be a leadership dickhead…
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106 Lee Hayes Yokohama FC Academy Ex West Ham and QPR
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The Virtual Academy is back on the MyPersonalFootballCoach app. The Next Gen Club includes Technical, Tactical, Physical, Psychological and Tips how to get scouted from Premier League Coaches...for just £9.99 a month.https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/the-virtual-academy-home/Lee Hayes joins Saul to discuss his role at Yokohama FC and what life an…
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105 Danny Buck Arsenal Academy Coach Pt 2
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To find out more about technical coaching, Ball Mastery and 1v1 Duels checkout the MyPersonalFootballCoach Online Coaching Courseshttps://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/level-1-level-2-e-leaning-courses/Arsenal Academy Skills Specialist Danny Buck returns to join Saul to discuss his work at the world famous Hale End, home to Arsenal's Academy. Saul ta…
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Paul Holder is a legend in the English Coaching fraternity. His long career has seen him coach at Academy and 1st Team Level. He has also been a coach Educator at the English Football Association. Paul and Saul discuss coaching topics including the Game Based approach.By MyFootballCoach
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103 Coaching Family is there too much dribbling in Youth Football?
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102 Where have all the #10s Gone? Coaching Family Special
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MyPersonalFootballCoach Coaching Courses and Virtual Conference are now on sale! https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/iamacoach/Glenn joins Saul again for the Coaching Family Special asking where are all the #10s gone? Pro and Academy football seem to be missing the mavericks which used to be the mainstay of teams through out the world. Why is this …
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101 Chris Robinson Ex Scout Chelsea FC's Academy
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The Virtual Academy Club Next Gen goes live February 1st. Get the complete player development programme. Technical, Tactical, Mindset, Physical and tips how to get scouted. Sign up on the MyPersonalFootballCoach app or follow this link https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/the-virtual-academy-home/Chris Robinson spent over 10 years as a Scout at Chel…
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100 Yousuf Sajadd Ex Arsenal Head of Emerging Talent Current TD FC Den Bosch
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The MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Academy Next Gen Club is going live February 1st. Technical, Tactical, Physical, Mindset and tips how to get scouted from some of the best talent developers in world football. https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/the-virtual-academy-home/Yousuf Sajjadd has gone from volunteer scout at Brentford to Technical Direct…
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99 Colin Bergmans Skills Coach PSV Eindhoven
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Check out Saul's new Coach Mentoring. Take your coaching and/or Soccer coaching career/business to the next level...https://pdafootball.co.uk/coach-mentoring/Colin Bergmans is a Skills Coach at PSV Eindhoven. Colin outlines how his ‘Skill Box’ works and the individual focus that sets PSV apart from most Academies.…
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98 Diogo Pavia Head of Individual Development FC Porto
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Check out Saul's new Coach Mentoring. Take your coaching and/or Soccer coaching career/business to the next level...https://pdafootball.co.uk/coach-mentoring/Diogo Pavia joins Saul to discuss his role as Head of Individual Development at FC Porto. This famous Portuguese club has a long and successful track record of player development. Pepijn Lijnd…
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97 Coaching Family Special: Technical Players how do we Coach/Develop them?
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Alex Nichols, former Technical Coach at Arsenal FC joins Saul and Glen to talk about Technical Players. What do they look like and how do we coach/develop them?By MyFootballCoach
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Saul and Glen are back in the Coaching Family special to discuss Ball Striking. Is it important and when, where and how is the most effective way to coach and improve it?By MyFootballCoach
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95 Kenneth Santa Head of Talent ID Singapore, ex Brondby and Aspire Academy
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Kenneth Santa has had an extraordinary career already taking him around the world as a talent ID Specialist. Starting his career in Denmark at clubs including Brondby, before moving to Aspire in Qatar, working as European Scout for Wolves, a stint in Saudi Arabia then India. He's now Head of talent ID in Singapore. Kenneth shares his journey and le…
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94 Does Possession Matter? Coaching Family Special
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Glen joins Saul for another Coaching Family to discuss 'does possession matter?'. Guardiola has changed the game in the UK and in World Football...but is it important for your team to dominate the ball? In terms of youth development, is it key and how do you train it?By MyFootballCoach
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93 Jeroen Chantrain Anderlecht Academy Coach
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Jeroen Chantrain joins Saul to talk about is work at Anderlecht's famous academy. He has spent 6 years at the club working firstly with this youngest age groups in the foundation phase and now with the 13/14s.He also coaches in the Purple Talents programme which is Anderlecht's school programme for 'their better players'. Check out more about Ander…
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92 Coaching Family Special 'Developing midfielders'
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Glen Hicks joins Saul for this Coaching Family special discussing how to develop midfielders. Looking at the current trend of central midfielders going for big money in the Premier League and La Liga...what are the key attributes needed to play and prosper in this area of the pitch and how does that effect our session design?…
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91 Special with Paul McGuinness ex Man United and Glen Hicks
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Paul McGuinness ex Man Utd Coach for 20 years and Glen Hicks ex Premier League Academy coach join Saul for this round table special discussing Paul's notion of 'Flow', how to identify and how to coach it in football.By MyFootballCoach
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90 Special Episode. Saul is interviewed by The Coaches Room
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MPFC Podcast host Saul Isaksson-Hurst is interviewed by Inside the Coaches Room in this special episode.Saul talks about his 20 year career, coaching at the Academies of Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal and his work as an individual coach working with and developing some of the best young talent in world football.…
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Ivan Kepcija Ex Dinamo Zagreb Academy Manager and Hajduk Split TD
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GET 20% OFF THE MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference with the code 'podcastvc'Ivan Kepcija joins Saul to talk about his career which has seen him be instrumental in the rise of Croatian football to the top of World Football.Ivan was assitant Academy Manager then Academy Manger of Dinamo Zagreb. He then moved in to be a Technical Director at L…
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Dan Micciche Ex England, Arsenal and Spurs
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Get 20% off the MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference with code 'podcastvc'https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/Dan Micciche is regarded as one of the best coaches in the country and has had an extraordinary career already. Starting coaching a Crystal Palace he soon moved across London to work under Chris Ramsey and John…
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87 Chris Docherty Sporting Director Budapest Honved
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Check out the MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference. 14 of the worlds best talent developers. Get 20% off with the code 'podcastvc'https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/Chris Docherty has had an amazing career in the game already. Starting his career in Academy football in Scotland as a coach and then moving to work with …
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86 Round Table Special Doug Lemov 'Teaching and Learning in Football'
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The MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference is now live! 14 of the best player developers in world football present their ideas, methodology, hints and tips from elite level coaching. Download now and keep.GET 20% WITH 'PODCASTVC' CODEhttps://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/Doug Lemov is one of the world leaders in teaching a…
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85 Ricardo Moniz Skills Coach Spurs, Red Bull, Hamburg, Feyenoord
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Ricardo Moniz is regarded as the world's leading skills coach. His time at Spurs as first team skills coach left a legacy on the whole club but particularly the Academy. He has also worked at the Red Bull Clubs, Hamburg and Feyenoord. He has also has stints in management in England and Europe. Ricardo, a disciple of Wiel Coerver took his work to th…
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84 Michel Ribeiro 1st Team Individual Coach Genk
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Michel Ribeiro is the 1st Team Individual Coach Genk, he was also previously the Individual Coach in the Academy of the same club. Michel talks about his career and one of the worlds leading individual coaching specialists. Saul and Michel discuss how and why Genk have become one of the best player development environments in world football and how…
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83 Russell Martin Swansea City Head Coach
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Russell Martin joins Saul to talk about his footballing philosophy and how he made firstly MK Dons in League 1 one of the best possession football teams in Europe with stats only behind Man City and Barcelona. He also talks about his current role as Head Coach of Swansea City and how he's continued to try and develop a team that can dominate the ba…
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82 Oliver Schoepp Borussia Mönchengladbach Academy Coach
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Get 20% off the new MyPersonalFootballCoach Level 2 E Learning Course with Promo Code LEVEL2PODCAST.By MyFootballCoach
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81 Alex Nichols Technical Coach Arsenal FC's Academy
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Alex Nichols is a Technical Coach at Arsenal FC's Academy. Alex discusses what goes on on the grass at Hale End to make it one of best Academies in world football right now.By MyFootballCoach
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80 Andy Parslow Set-Piece Coach AFC Wimbledon 1st Team
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Andy Parslow is a specialist coach with AFC Wimbledon's 1st team. As set-piece coach he's managed to make Wimbledon's set-piece stats some of the best in the country. He's also had a long and distinguished career in Academy Football at Brentford, Watford and AFC Wimbledon. Saul and Andy discuss the rise of specialist coaches in football and how imp…
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79 Joe Antonelli Crystal Palace u14/u15 Lead
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Joe Antonelli is Lead u14 and u15 Lead Coach at Crystal Palace's Academy. Joe talks about the great work going on at the South London club and their transition to a Cat 1 Academy. Joe also talks about his previous roles at Fulham and Barnet's Academy. This one is not to be missed.By MyFootballCoach
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78 Hasney Aljofree Ex Man United's Academy
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Hasney Aljofree spent 10 years coaching at Manchester United's famous Academy. Working across the age groups from 12 to the 23s Hasney gives us the behind the scenes low down on one of the best Academies in world football and what went on day to day on and off the grass.By MyFootballCoach
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77 Timo Jankowski TD Fiji ex Grass Hopper Zurich and German FA
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Timo Jankowski has had an incredible career starting working for the German FA and progressing to Grass Hopper Zurich where he held several positions including First Team Coach, Head of Performance and Head of Player Development. He is now Technical Director of Fiji. Timo shares his journey and experiences supporting player development in this uniq…
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76 Thiago Macedo Club Athletico Paranaense, ex Santos & Fluminense
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Thiago Macedo has coached at 3 of the biggest clubs in Brazil. He joins Saul to discuss his career and give us the insight into one of the greatest football cultures in world football. Why and how do Brazil keep producing such technically excellent players and what are the differences in approaches by the country's biggest clubs.…
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Angel City FC is the new Womens Soccer Team Franchise in LA. Freya Coombe is Head Coach and joins Saul to discuss her inspirational story which has led to hear securing one of the top jobs in Womens Soccer. Freya started her career in the UK working for the FA and the Reading girls programme. She then moved to the USA to work in grass roots but was…
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Thomas Ruesink has been a skills coach at PSV for over 3 years. Working predominantly with the 10-13s age groups. Thomas gives us insight to one of the best Academies in Holland and how his unique 'chaos games' philosophy added something new to the Academy.By MyFootballCoach
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73 Zeb Jacobs Glasgow Rangers Head Of Coaching
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Zeb Jacobs has recently begun a new role as Head of Coaching at Rangers Football Club. Zeb talks about his coaching methodology that he moulded in his time at Royal Antwerp. Built around developing players ability to outplay opponents in 1v1 and creating masters of the ball. Zeb goes into detail about what he believes is the best way to develop top…
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72 Paul Gray Fouundation Phase Lead Blackburn Rovers
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Paul Gray is the Senior Foundation Phase Coach at Blackburn Rovers. He's a Foundation Phase specialist with experience working at Accrington Stanley, Blackpool, Preston North End, Bodo Glimt in Norway until he's current position at Blackburn Rovers.By MyFootballCoach
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71 David Webb Head Of Recruitment and Technical Director
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David Webb has had an extraordinary career already, starting coaching in Academy football at Crystal Palace. He quickly got involved in recruitment and was the scout who spotted Zaha. He's gone on to work in recruitment at Southampton and Spurs under Pochettino and also at Bournemouth with Eddie Howe. He progressed on to be Head of Football at Öste…
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70 Andy Martino Southampton Academy Coach
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Andy Martino has spent over 20 years coaching at Southampton's Academy. Andy shares his experiences working at one of the best Academies in the country as a Foundation Phase specialist and gives us an insight into how and why Southampton has been one of the most successful Academies in English football in recent times.…
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69 Manisha Taylor MBE Assistant Head Of Coaching QPR
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Saul is joined by Manisha Taylor MBE who discusses her role at QPR and working under the wing of Chris Ramsey. QPR have one of the best technical programmes in the country. Manisha talks about her quick rise through the ranks a the club and what makes QPR so unique and so successful in developing players…
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68 Jake Henry Nottingham Forest Foundation Phase Lead
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Nottingham Forest's Foundation Phase Lead Jake Henry joins Saul to talk about what goes on behind the scenes at the Academy and their recent transition to Category 1 Academy.Jake discusses his journey from part time coach including his time coaching abroad to his current role at Nottingham Forest.By MyFootballCoach
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67 Mike Dodds Birmingham City Academy Manager
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Mike Dodds is Birmingham City's Academy Manager. He discusses he time at Birmingham working his way up from part time coach in the pre academy to the Foundation Phase, Youth Development Phase, Professional Development phase and now as Academy Manger. Mike knows the Academy back to front and shares the innovation and methodology that has helped Birm…
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66 Eduardo Oliveira U20 Coach Fluminense
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Eduardo Oliveria joins Saul to discuss his role at Brazilian giant Fluminense as first Head Of Methodology and now U20 Head Coach.Fluminense has a long proud history and culture of developing players for their first team and the Brazilian national team. Eduardo and Saul discuss the methodology of the club from the very youngest age groups to the U2…
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65 Wes Hughes Lead Coach 15/16s Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Wes Hughes Lead Coach 15/16s at Wolves joins Saul to discuss his journey which includes two stints at Wolverhampton Wanderers and also many years spent at Birmingham City's Academy working across the age groups and also with Jude Bellingham in the Foundation Phase and in the Youth Development Phase. Wes discusses Jude's development and the unique e…
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64 Lewis Craig Man Utd Women's 21's Assitant Coach
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Lewis Craig joins Saul to talk about his role as Man Utd Womens 21's Coach and his coaching career which has seen him be Foundation Phase Lead at Burnley, Assitant Academy Manager at Salford City and also Head of YDP at Morecambe. Lewis' career has seen him work with all ages within the development pyramid and he has lots of great experience and kn…
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