Rob Porter retweeted
⚽ Leadership in Coaching Short Course 🎓
Our lead tutor @cutinside brings elite professional football experience, a Master’s in Leadership and is a PhD candidate in Leadership!!
Join us for a four-part leadership course covering:
🧠 Lead Yourself
🤝 Build Trust
📈 Grow e Q&A workshop with Rod & Ray
A rare opportunity to learn from someone who bridges leadership theory and the realities of professional football.
📅 Starts 22 November | Online
Don’t leave your influence to chance.
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Our lead tutor @cutinside brings elite professional football experience, a Master’s in Leadership and is a PhD candidate in Leadership!!
Join us for a four-part leadership course covering:
🧠 Lead Yourself
🤝 Build Trust
📈 Grow e Q&A workshop with Rod & Ray
A rare opportunity to learn from someone who bridges leadership theory and the realities of professional football.
📅 Starts 22 November | Online
Don’t leave your influence to chance.
Register in the comments 👇
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Rob Porter retweeted
Full-backs - Defending in Wide Areas
Defending wide areas requires control, patience and a connection with the back line.
Apply pressure as the ball travels and control the speed and angle of approach. Stay balanced in the one-v-one, watch the ball and time the challenge. iver, block the crossing angle and recognise when to press or delay.
For coaches: Help full-backs connect their approach to the support around them. Reinforce communication with nearby defenders, cover and support, staying compact and tracking runners.
Explore The Coaches Hub for professional coaching insight, practical ideas and detailed session plans to support your coaching and player development. Link in the comments.
Develop the coach. Improve the session. Develop the player.
#SoccerProfile #TheCoachesHub #SoccerCoaching
Defending wide areas requires control, patience and a connection with the back line.
Apply pressure as the ball travels and control the speed and angle of approach. Stay balanced in the one-v-one, watch the ball and time the challenge. iver, block the crossing angle and recognise when to press or delay.
For coaches: Help full-backs connect their approach to the support around them. Reinforce communication with nearby defenders, cover and support, staying compact and tracking runners.
Explore The Coaches Hub for professional coaching insight, practical ideas and detailed session plans to support your coaching and player development. Link in the comments.
Develop the coach. Improve the session. Develop the player.
#SoccerProfile #TheCoachesHub #SoccerCoaching
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We've gone to a medium to low block with the U19s recently, so I might as well sharpen my knowledge, and potentially learn a few things.
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Rob Porter retweeted
What can GPS data tell you about your players’ workload?
We’ve teamed up with @PlayerData to help coaches put GPS insights into practice. In our joint webinar, @GarryMonk and Rich Buchanan discuss how GPS can shape your next session.
Watch 👀👇
youtube.com/watch?v=f6m1NE…
Data
We’ve teamed up with @PlayerData to help coaches put GPS insights into practice. In our joint webinar, @GarryMonk and Rich Buchanan discuss how GPS can shape your next session.
Watch 👀👇
youtube.com/watch?v=f6m1NE…
Data
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Rob Porter retweeted
DEFENDING ISN’T JUST TACKLING — IT’S READING THE GAME
Van Dijk’s famous line hits different: “The best tackles don’t happen because you’re fast — they happen because you’re on‑time.”
So many young defenders rush in, feet flying, trying to win the ball immediately. Van Dijk ad the run, read the body shape, pick the exact split second to step in.
✅ Read the attacker’s hips first
✅ Time your step before they commit
✅ Stay side‑on — don’t dive
✅ Patience beats desperation every single time
Defending is a thinking position. Your eyes are your best tool before your feet. 💪
#Coaching #Academy #Development #Defending
Van Dijk’s famous line hits different: “The best tackles don’t happen because you’re fast — they happen because you’re on‑time.”
So many young defenders rush in, feet flying, trying to win the ball immediately. Van Dijk ad the run, read the body shape, pick the exact split second to step in.
✅ Read the attacker’s hips first
✅ Time your step before they commit
✅ Stay side‑on — don’t dive
✅ Patience beats desperation every single time
Defending is a thinking position. Your eyes are your best tool before your feet. 💪
#Coaching #Academy #Development #Defending
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Rob Porter retweeted
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Will you take any of these 2 games into your sessions? Then why not to check all of them in our complete collection of 24 games.
📩 Get your collection today!
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🎯Code : RONDO24
Will you take any of these 2 games into your sessions? Then why not to check all of them in our complete collection of 24 games.
📩 Get your collection today!
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Rob Porter retweeted
As a youth football/soccer coach, observing first is vital. The more you talk and try to coach in the moment, the more you miss what’s actually happening.
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A whole 11 aside pitch to use, and a chance to use some mannequins to make it look like I know what I'm doing!
What's not to love as a coach!
What's not to love as a coach!
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Rob Porter retweeted
Three of the best posters from my series last summer, inspired by World Cup posters.
Spain '84
France '98
Uruguay '30
#SundayShare
Spain '84
France '98
Uruguay '30
#SundayShare
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Rob Porter retweeted
My @SundayShare10 this week is a session I did yesterday
Receiving isn’t just catching the ball — it’s deciding your next move 🧠⚽
Yesterday’s session with the academy lads was all about one core principle:
Receive to make the next action.
Every touch was planned before the pen‑body receiving to play a quick pass
✔️ Side‑on receiving to set for a finish
✔️ Reading the space to choose pass / shoot instantly
Too many players just receive the ball — elite players receive with purpose.
Small, sharp technical repetitions, high‑tempo decision‑making, and those little split‑second choices that separate academy standard from the next level.
Great work from every lad — the detail is showing. 💪
#Coaching #Development #Academy #Detail #Passing
Receiving isn’t just catching the ball — it’s deciding your next move 🧠⚽
Yesterday’s session with the academy lads was all about one core principle:
Receive to make the next action.
Every touch was planned before the pen‑body receiving to play a quick pass
✔️ Side‑on receiving to set for a finish
✔️ Reading the space to choose pass / shoot instantly
Too many players just receive the ball — elite players receive with purpose.
Small, sharp technical repetitions, high‑tempo decision‑making, and those little split‑second choices that separate academy standard from the next level.
Great work from every lad — the detail is showing. 💪
#Coaching #Development #Academy #Detail #Passing
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An eye opening second #SundayShare
Just coached a county U16s session. On arrival, one of the players asked if we were doing passing patterns, and was disappointed when I said no! She prefers them over a game!
It certainly took me by surprise!
@SundayShare10
Just coached a county U16s session. On arrival, one of the players asked if we were doing passing patterns, and was disappointed when I said no! She prefers them over a game!
It certainly took me by surprise!
@SundayShare10
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My #SundayShare this week is an appreciation post for grassroots coaches.
People don't see it from the outside, but the image shows how much coaches have to think about.
To put in the hours they do, for free, is something that should be recognised and commended🤝
People don't see it from the outside, but the image shows how much coaches have to think about.
To put in the hours they do, for free, is something that should be recognised and commended🤝
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Rob Porter retweeted
A few simple games to help players attack and defend at speed.
React quickly to turnovers
Combine centrally and wide
Recovery runs
Retaining possession and fast counter attacks
From Super Six Volume One
React quickly to turnovers
Combine centrally and wide
Recovery runs
Retaining possession and fast counter attacks
From Super Six Volume One
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With a reduced crowd, and the opportunity to sit where I want, I've ended up using today's Oxford game as a chance to observe some coaches matchday communication.
2 very different styles from the Oxford and Stevenage coaching staff.
2 very different styles from the Oxford and Stevenage coaching staff.
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I'm a The Sporting Resource hat owner, it will be getting a lot of use again this winter🤝
We're looking for coaches, parents and football people who want to represent The Sporting Resource (@TheS_Resource) this winter.
Just people who believe in what we're trying to build.
Our TSR bobble hats are back after selling out last year, and every purchase helps us put o the website, resources and new ideas for the football community.
So if you're going to be standing on a cold touchline anyway, you may as well do it in a hat that helps fund something independent.
The bobble hats are available now:
thesportingresource.co.uk/store
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Rob Porter retweeted
⚽️ FREE WEBINAR | Mid Block Defending
🔸 Reactive vs. Proactive approaches
🔸 Pressing decisions & opportunities
🔸 Collective defensive coordination
📅 Nov 11 | 7 PM CET · 1 PM ET
🔗 Register FREE 👉 f.mtr.cool/on8onlpkh5
🔸 Reactive vs. Proactive approaches
🔸 Pressing decisions & opportunities
🔸 Collective defensive coordination
📅 Nov 11 | 7 PM CET · 1 PM ET
🔗 Register FREE 👉 f.mtr.cool/on8onlpkh5
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Rob Porter retweeted
What role does play have in development?
On the latest episode of How To Build A Football Brain @brianmccormick discusses the importance of play, plus many other things!
On the latest episode of How To Build A Football Brain @brianmccormick discusses the importance of play, plus many other things!
How can you sell the fake?
@brianmccormick talks about using effective fakes in gameplay on the latest episode of How To Build A Football Brain.
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I'll be delivering an in-house CPD event later this month, with the FA's new grassroots coaching fundamentals as the topic.
I love this visual for grassroots coaches to use as a framework, I think that it encompasses the major elements of grassroots coaching.
Thoughts on it?
I love this visual for grassroots coaches to use as a framework, I think that it encompasses the major elements of grassroots coaching.
Thoughts on it?
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Rob Porter retweeted
🎨 The Art of Control — Dimitar Berbatov Style
The masterclass most players miss… ⚽
"Don't control the ball to stop it. Control it so you can continue playing in the best possible way — with the fewest touches."
— Dimitar Berbatov
One of if not the best at receiving the ty of it. First touch isn't about killing the ball dead. It's about setting your next move free. One touch that sees 3 steps ahead. Elegance isn't laziness — it's efficiency. 🪄
Minimal touches. Maximum impact. That's football artistry.
👇 What's your favourite first-touch moment?
#Coaching #Technical #Academy #Detail #Development
The masterclass most players miss… ⚽
"Don't control the ball to stop it. Control it so you can continue playing in the best possible way — with the fewest touches."
— Dimitar Berbatov
One of if not the best at receiving the ty of it. First touch isn't about killing the ball dead. It's about setting your next move free. One touch that sees 3 steps ahead. Elegance isn't laziness — it's efficiency. 🪄
Minimal touches. Maximum impact. That's football artistry.
👇 What's your favourite first-touch moment?
#Coaching #Technical #Academy #Detail #Development
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Rob Porter retweeted
I’ve yet to see a youth football/soccer club post: “We lost today. The kids played well and had fun.”
Wins always get posted. The behind the scenes, the real work, and losses almost never do.
Don’t get sucked into what you see online. Share the whole picture, not just the good times.
Wins always get posted. The behind the scenes, the real work, and losses almost never do.
Don’t get sucked into what you see online. Share the whole picture, not just the good times.
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