My guess today is Todd Beane, founder of the TOVO Institute. Todd's organization has worked with professional academies in Spain, the Netherlands and a number of other countries, including the United States. In this episode, you'll hear Todd share his experience, talk about "redefining the fundamentals", and address why we should drop the dominant technical-centric approach and aim instead to create dynamic and realistic sessions and environments that would be more beneficial to the development of our players. This would also ensure that our players have fun in the process ..read more

My guest today is Andreu Enrich. Andreu is the Head Coach of Mannheim Hockey Club, a club based in Germany, and author of a wonderful book called "Hockey: 50 tips from Intelligent Players". As it's been the case with past guests, I heard of Andreu on Stuart's Armstrong the Talent Equation podcast, where he made an appearance and talked about the book, along with several other topics, and I decided to invite him on the Coaching Puzzle to continue to dive deeper into youth sports. "Technical training", warm-ups, and players "making the right mistakes" are just a few of the interesting topics tha ..read more

My guest on today's episode is Dan Abrahams. Dan is a registered Sport psychologist for elite and developing elite sports individuals, teams, clubs, organizations and governing bodies globally. He is also the host of the Sport Psych Show, one of the world's most listened to sport psychology podcasts We talked about the evolution of the field, some specific terms and concepts that coaches should be aware of, and some practical ideas that even the least experiences coaches can use with the athletes they are in charge of! You DO NOT want to miss this episode!   ..read more

Casey is the Strength and conditioning Coach at Pacific Ridge School, and independent co-educational school in San Diego for students in grades 6-12. Casey has an extensive experience working with Athletes at the youth and HS level . You'll hear him talk about agility and developing playmakers, pre-season, and strength and conditioning among many other topics ..read more

Our guest today is Dr. Jean Cote. Dr. Cote is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in Canada. His research interests is in the areas of youth sport, coaching, positive youth development and sport expertise. In this episode, he talks about key concepts such as early sport specialization vs sampling, deliberate practice, deliberate play , and transformational coaching.  ..read more

Coach Mark Krikorian is our guest today. He is the Head Women's Soccer Coach at Florida State University for the last 16 years, has won 2 NCAA National Championships there in 2014 and 2018, has made 5 appearances in the National Title game, and also led the US U19 Women's National Team to a 3rd place finish at the 2004 FIFA U20 Women's World Cup. Coach Mark is one of the most experienced and best coaches in the nation, and you will enjoy hearing him talk about how he started coaching, being honest with players, selecting his captains, and many other topics around the game  ..read more

In this episode, Coach Menzies talks about the work that went into the Jamaican Women's team qualifying for the Women's World Cup in 2019 in France, and discusses several topics in the youth game. Enjoy this episode!  ..read more

In this episode, you'll hear Doug talk about several topics that came up in his newest book, The Coach's Guide to Teaching, including the importance of having shared vocabulary, asking players "what do you see?" when pausing play to correct, and why the way you give feedback is 100% part of the culture that you create ..read more

Welcome to the Coaching Podcast. My guest today is Becky Burleigh, Head Coach of the Women's Soccer Team at the University of Florida.   In this episode, you will hear Becky talk about some intangibles outside of the technical skills that she believes are crucial for young girls to have, how she keeps her substitutes ready and hungry, and her respect for travel and grassroots coaches ..read more

This episode is Part 2 of the previous episode, in which I discussed why I am not a big fan of the A Team-B Team-C Team model that is prevalent in youth travel soccer and some of the flaws that issues that that particular model creates. In today's episode, I talk about some of the avenues that we should explore as we look for alternatives, or at the very least supplements that can help address the many issues that the traditional A Team-B Team-C Team model seems to create.  ..read more