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The importance of MST in Football: motivation
07/01/2014 19:41
My last blog was about the importance of MST (Mental Skill Training) within football. This subject is really complex and interests me a lot. That’s why the upcoming weeks I will dig in some subjects about MST and write about it. This of course to share and improve my own vision. The first subject I...
The importance of psychological wellness in soccer
06/01/2014 15:41
The next subject is one I like to philosophize about. The subject is sport psychology. How does it work, how can we use it or develop it, is it that important, how can it be beneficial? All questions that keep me bothered for a long time. I would like to shine a bit of my light on this...
The Inspirations of 2013
30/12/2013 21:09
The year 2013 is almost over. For me it was an inspirational, fun, informative but also a turbulent year. Lots of things worked out really well, and lots of things went wrong.
When I look to the bad things first, I remember a garage which burnt down due to some barbeque coals. This was...
Youth Development; Mourinho, Ferguson and Guardiola at the U11’s?
20/11/2013 16:16
Yesterday I was travelling with public transport again. While I was enjoying myself to the fullest reading a free newspaper I got from an old guy outside the train station, I noticed an article about youth development in hockey. Some great hockey coaches explained their vision about youth...
Football fatigue, how to react?
13/11/2013 15:45
Last week I went to Madrid to visit the training facilities of Real Madrid. I was joining the Coach Week arranged by Real Madrid youth academy to give coaches a view on their vision, methodology and training sessions. I really enjoyed myself there, learned a lot and in the end it was a mind setting...
Football players: better, faster, stronger?
02/11/2013 10:58
I was sitting in the train a couple of weeks ago, reading some train station paper some old man gave me when I entered the station. Normally this papers are full of gossiping and non underpinned articles. But there was this article that draw my attention immediately as I saw it. The title was: “Too...
Testing in football, essential for elite teams
01/11/2013 13:59
As you all know, I’m following a minor study at Arnhem named Sport Performance Enhancement. What we do at this minor is trying to recognize talent and then develop a plan to give the followed athletes an advice for the future. But how do you know if someone is a talent? And on what...
The motivation at football players, an underestimated issue
30/10/2013 22:33
I was watching the match of my hometown club PSV Eindhoven against Roda JC last Wednesday. The game wasn’t as bad as the score line suggested. The match ended up in a 1-3 win for Roda JC. The fans at the Philips stadium went home, disappointed of course. It was the second time that PSV lost...
The giant step to the elite team
16/10/2013 15:09
We all know some examples. Players which exellerate every single weak at the youth squad. They take immense steps in their development and every time they play another team that coach asks: when is the lad going to preform this at the stadium?
That is a relevant question. Because maybe the...
Periodisation within soccer
10/10/2013 13:01
Yesterday I was at a congress in Tilburg about 'coaching talent' and 'talent vs development'.
Their were all kinds of issues discussed but the one that will be discussed beneath is periodisation.
One of the speakers was Scott Miller, assistent technical coach at Fulham FC. He spoke about...
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