Football Coaching

Football Coaching: Putting the Theory into Practice is an essential guide for any student who is studying not just an undergraduate or postgraduate football coaching degree but any degree that has a focus on coaching. In addition to this, it is also a vital resource for any football coach, especially those working through their UEFA coaching qualifications. Football coaches constantly ask how academic research should inform applied coaching practice and in turn how coaches should apply academic research into their professional activities. This book presents answers to these questions by discussing the key academic research that is integral to coaching practice. It will also provide 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. It is written by contributors, with expertise as academics within higher education, whilst also having years of experience working at the highest level within the industry. Football Coaching: Putting the Theory into Practice is key reading for all students on any coaching degree, especially those studying football coaching, as well as benefitting any football coach and coaches from other sports, specifically coaches from sports that are classified as invasion games.

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.

SECTION I The 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