Being talented doesn’t make you a great player. According... to Curt Cignetti, the real separator is how a player responds to coaching. That reveals three types of players: 1️⃣ Inconsistent players They take coaching on their own terms: • Accept praise • Resist correction 2️⃣ Good players They take coaching when it’s given: • Listen to feedback • Apply it in practice 3️⃣ Great players They seek coaching relentlessly: • Self-scout constantly • Ask for more correction Talent sets the floor. Your relationship with coaching determines the ceiling.show more

Transfer Game⚽️ • Complete 4 passes before you can... transfer the ball to the other side • Must play into the middle player before you can transfer, they can set you back to then pass into the other side🎯 • If the defending team regain the ball they can score in the mini goal Rotate players around so that they all get an experience of being in possession and pressing players, highlight specific players to be the transfer player in the middle which helps them work on their development or strengths🗒️ Coaches' Voice Sport Session Planner The Sporting Resource The Coaching Family SessionShare @_otlfcshow more

“If I’m being honest, it feels like Japan maybe... has like a little bit of toxic coaching culture from the past. Let’s say that really shocked me to hear how some of these players were trained until they get to professional league.” bro lmao😭💀 🔗show more

Ajax Y Passing Drill❌❌❌ A simple passing practice used... by clubs such as Ajax & Barcelona to work with players on their passing and receiving skills, plus much more! • 3 Different variations within the video, however there are many more that you can use • Work on players passing weight & accuracy and ensuring they are passing to their teammates correct foot to allow them to receive the ball comfortably and then play at speed⏲️ • Working with players on their first touch so that it sets up their next action whether that is to put the ball in the correct place to then pass off their second touch or if they need to set their touch to then dribble or run with the ball🎯 #SundayShare The Coaching Family Coaches' Voice Sport Session Planner The Sporting Resource SessionShareshow more

COVER 6 is trending right now, but how do... you play it? Everyone knows what it looks like on paper, but how does it play out on the field? This is a great play to study. How are you coaching it? Who gets a plus and who gets a minus? I've sent this to 3 different NFL DCs—they all gave different answers!! Curious to see how others view it. I'll post my breakdown later. Coaching is about details, but which details? Remember, We cannot give players complex algorithms to solve - rule and keys need to be simple and repeatable to hold up under pressure and unscripted looks. Assign 3 players most responsible for this play 1,2,3. This is a fun 1!!show more

Not sure what to do with this. One players... dad was coaching with us. The same players mom is the best women’s high school basketball coach in the nation. The other athlete’s dad was our booster club president and D1 college athlete. Both were straight A students. Both are college graduates, one with a masters degree. But yet, when you ask players to lock in and not address the crowd and they still don’t!!?? Not sure they were too worried that night. Seemed pretty loose. Othell Robinson Jeff Wigginton Daniel Barrera Coach Josh Jynes Stacey Jynes.show more

DON’T COACH THE MISTAKE. COACH THE INTENTION. ⚽️ A... line to reflect on. Of course not always, but more than not often. There’s a powerful coaching lesson in something Pep Guardiola speaks about. During one difficult period for him the season before last, his approach was to demand more. Demand better. Challenge errors. Hold players accountable. But later, last season, the Pep Guardiola message evolved. As seen in this dressing room footage he told his players: It’s okay to lose the ball. It’s okay to make mistakes. There was just one condition: Make the mistake with conviction. In other words… If you’re going to attempt the pass, commit to it. If you’re going to make the decision, make it with 100% intention. Because there is a huge difference between: ❌ A mistake caused by hesitation, fear or lack of application. and ✅ A mistake that happens while a player is fully committed to doing the right thing. That distinction matters enormously for coaches. Too often we see the outcome: “He gave the ball away.” But before correcting the player, ask: What was the intention? Was the player trying to break a line? Trying to find the free player? Trying to play forward? Trying to exploit the space we’ve coached them to recognize? If the intention was right, the solution might not be changing the decision at all. The decision may be correct. The execution may simply need improving. And those require completely different coaching interventions. If we punish every mistake, eventually players stop taking responsibility. They stop experimenting. They stop seeing possibilities. They start choosing the safest option available, not necessarily the best one. QUOTE THIS FROM KEEPITONTHEDECK..... "Great environments give players freedom to fail with purpose." #pepguardiola #guardiolashow more

Optimize Time Between Plays During Team Periods In between... plays during team periods, there’s a good 30-45 seconds of players standing around. Here’s how we optimized it: Players meet with their position coach after every play while the scout gets set. Players tell their coaches what they saw, how they handled it, and to be coached up. This is a great way to get all of your coaches involved during team periods. We script out all of the plays so coaches know exactly where to look and how to coach it before the play even happens. The second way...show more

4v4+4 Possession➡️Crossing & Finishing🎯 • Make 5 passes in... the central area before you can break out into the wide areas • 2v2 in attacking box with wide players as crossers🎯 • If there is a goal, the team who conceded swap roles with the outside players and winners stay on Great practice with quick transitions and opportunities to work on breaking lines and working with attackers on making forward runs to join attacks at speed⚽️ Coaches' Voice Sport Session Planner The Sporting Resource The Coaching Family SessionShareshow more

Hexagons and Octagons Those who follow football and coaching... will be well aware that there are trends that emerge and become the great break through in coaching, only to vanish quite quickly. A few stick around and become a staple. Such as the rondo, or the 4v4+4 Guardiola rondo variation. One that did not stick around in the coaching collective consciousness that possible should have was Thomas Tuchel’s use of hexagonal and octagonal playing areas in training sessions. Tuchel explained that cutting off the corners and angling the pitch forced “sharp diagonal” passes that would help break the press. The positioning of players outside the hexagon/octagon or players close to the edges will be manipulated into an open body shape by the angles of the pitch. Players are impacted by environmental constraints and embodied cognition, where the geography of the playing area influences their actions. This influence spreads to the creation of triangles and diamonds within the playing area due to the “funnel” like nature of the playing area. We can use the cut outside angles by placing bounce or target players on the exterior, influencing the movement and organisation internally. The inside players will not have to move wide as those areas are occupied. The internal players will seek to create passing angles using the positioning of the outside players and their internal team mates. The diamonds and triangles will appear. If we leave the spaces on the outside empty players can move to fill the spaces. These act as free spaces to receive from the goalkeeper or open spaces for attackers to overlap into, encouraging attacking combination play and crosses. A different way of using the space is to remove goals and goalkeepers from the ends and place bounce/target players on the outside. Players now can combine with the outside players, when they do so they are then free to finish into the outside goals. The condition can be extended to combining with the target player in the opposite side of the pitch before scoring, adding an element of switching play. The hexagon and octagon are versatile spaces that help to replicate aspects of the game. By funneling the spaces we impact players body shape, ability to play forward quickly, team shape (or small group shapes), players cutting in, defending centrally, the types of combination used and the angles of line breaking pass (diagonals). The angles are hugely significant for teams that value combinations and possession football, Straight passes and receiving angles are much easier to intercept and carry high risks for being counter attacked. Short diagonals can bypass players and attacking shapes, creating angled connections. If an angles pass is given away there is still a risk of being counter attacked but there is more chance of having players around the ball to regain possession. To counter press. The question that emerges is should we then be using hexagons and octagons more? If they are of greater benefit than squares and rectangles, why use them? Should all pitches, including those of a small sided nature be hexagonal? Can the rondo square be replaced by the rondo octagon?show more

Here is Kyle Shanahan literally inventing a route 🤯... First it's Julio running the "Blaze Out Route" basically a post corner but instead flat to the sideline. Incredibly difficult to run to drop all your weight and explode back outside flat Look how Pearsall instead runs this like a whip at the top and comes wide open. This is what great coaching is! Always tweaking your scheme to make it easier on your players #49ersshow more

🚨🎙️PEP GUARDIOLA: “ARSENAL DIDN’T JUST BEAT CITY — THEY... EXPOSED US.” “For years, people said we were winning because we had the best players. They believed the quality of the squad was the biggest reason for our success. But now we see that football is not only about having the best players. It is about organisation, mentality, coaching, control and the ability to make your players believe in what you are asking them to do. Watching Arsenal completely dominate City was painful. Much more painful than you believe. It was not simply a defeat where you can say, ‘Okay, we had chances and they scored.’ No. Arsenal controlled the game, controlled the rhythm and made City look uncomfortable. When you watch your former team struggle to impose itself like that, of course it hurts. But I have to be honest — this has nothing to do with me anymore. This is Maresca’s team now. He has his own ideas, his own players, his own philosophy and his own responsibility. He must find the solutions and take the team forward. My chapter with City is my chapter. What happens now belongs to someone else. I can respect what Arsenal did, I can recognise where City struggled, but I cannot carry the responsibility anymore. Football moves on. Managers move on. Teams change. And sometimes you have to accept that the problems of yesterday are no longer yours to solve.”show more

The replay of a METAWIN.COM player turning $5 into... $23k is wild 👀 This is the most generous casino on X right now They airdropped their players $4M last week & they have another 6 figures going out this week Go make a account to take advantage Comment your username below, we’ve got $300 to get one of you startedshow more

It’s come to our attention that another community host... has decided to ban players for competing in 6ix Arena. We want to make our position clear: we will never punish players for where they choose to play. Competition makes everyone better — players, leagues, and the community as a whole. Every player is free to compete in 6ix Arena and anywhere else, at the same time, with no conditions. That will never change. To any player affected by this decision: our doors are open. You’ll always have a home here. We wish EVERY league and EVERY player success. The community is big enough for all of us as it has been for the last 10 years. -Dangershow more

For years, the coaching industry operated with very little... scrutiny. Fake success stories, hidden charges, paper leak networks and all kinds of marketing gimmicks became normal. Parents kept spending money because they felt they had no other option. In the last few years, things seem to be changing in UP. Crackdowns on paper leak gangs, STF action against organised cheating rackets and initiatives like Abhyudaya have started challenging the old coaching ecosystem. The message appears to be clear: education should not become a business built on fear, misinformation and exploitation. There is still a long way to go, but at least the coaching mafia is no longer being treated as untouchable. For students and parents, that itself is a welcome change. #CoachingMafiaExposedshow more

This is one of the points raised by Algeria... following their defeat to Nigeria yesterday. According to the Algerian camp, referee Issa Sy showed a lack of respect and sportsmanship toward their players. They claim that after the final whistle, the manner in which he shook hands with Algerian players was noticeably different from how he greeted the Nigerian players. Algeria are now calling on CAF to remove the referee from the remainder of the tournament and send him home. Watch the video carefully and share your thoughts. #AFCON2025 #AFCONwithMickyshow more

The problem with defensive awareness is that most players... watch basketball like this... They only follow the ball. They watch it like a fan and not to get better. Which is unfortunately what highlights, mixtapes, and short clips ingrain the habit to be. Then when they step on the floor, no wonder they can't see the ball and their man, let alone everything else - they've only focused on one thing at a time. The first step to changing defensive awareness, is changing how players consume the game. Awareness is a habit. And habits can be developed. Full breakdown out now:show more

“Most freshmen are not capable of playing winning football... yet at this level.” Notice what Curt Cignetti didn’t mention in this interview: Talent. Every college player already cleared the talent threshold coming out of high school. But talent still has to pass through four stages before it becomes winning football: 1️⃣ Physical development: Bigger, stronger, faster 2️⃣ Scheme mastery: Understanding the offense/defense 3️⃣ Program standards: Learning the expectation level 4️⃣ Consistent execution: Proving you can do it every week Most players take a year or two to move through those stages. But it’s not about age. It’s about physical and mental maturity. 🎥 YOption W/ Yogi Roth & Rhett Lewisshow more

Defending Outnumbered⚽️ • Defending in 2v1 and 3v2 situations🔒... • Attacking players to work on exploiting the overload and using the free man to share the ball or use them as disguise to benefit themselves • Wave practice where there is transition elements and attackers have to attack at speed but also the defenders have to show quick reactions • Focus on defending principle of delaying to allow the defenders to recognise when they may be able to press and challenge for the ball🔥 Coaches' Voice Sport Session Planner The Coaching Family SessionShare The Sporting Resourceshow more

Every word still rings true 15+ years on. Mark... McVeigh personifies the greatness Essendon has within & he saw firsthand what it takes to get to the pinnacle. “Remember how bad this feels & go do something about it!” Do any of the players take enough pride & responsibility in their own performance to go that extra mile? Do they have the capability/willingness to sacrifice, nail their nutrition & leaving no stone unturned? Lastly, are they prepared to train well beyond what’s expected at an elite level, not just the bare minimum? Will they battle harder than ever before to become better players? That’s routinely catching up with coaches (beyond the mandatory) watching endless film & create a killer’s mentality that’s willing fight even harder when the deck is stacked against us? There’s so much passion Mark McVeigh can bring to the table, & given he was GWS’ caretaker role when Leon Cameron left, he’s developed a strong set of skills outside the Essendon four walls. He’s not some kind of blindly naive first-time head coach who’ll be out of his depth. He’ll add so much to our coaching panel: whether it’s as the head coach or as a key assistant. Bring Spike back, because he is ESSENDON ❤️🖤show more