Tag: Player-Centered Coaching

Pep Guardiola, Copy-Cats & Why Team Tactics Must Work for Your Players

by Rhys Desmond, posted in Coach Education, Coaching, Premier League

The weirdest of the weird proclaim modern football to be boring, because every team endeavours to play the same way. High-possession, high-pressing, building out from the back, goalkeepers involved in the build-up, inverted this, inverted that, and some degree of positional rotation. The man credited for starting or popularizing many of these modernizations is Pep … Continue reading Pep Guardiola, Copy-Cats & Why Team Tactics Must Work for Your Players

Adopting a player-centered approach to coaching

by Rhys Desmond, posted in Coach Education, Coaching, Masterclasses, Sport Psychology

Leadership is a process that not only involves you having influence over groups or individuals, but as those same individuals or groups having influence over you. You cannot thrive as a leader without your followers also inspiring you to reach your true potential. This is precisely why we must create an athlete-centered approach to the environments we build when coaching.