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Paul McGuinness ex Man Utd Coach for 20 years and Glen Hicks ex Premier League Academy coach join Saul for this round table special discussing Paul's notion of 'Flow', how to identify and how to coach it in football.

MPFC Podcast host Saul Isaksson-Hurst is interviewed by Inside the Coaches Room in this special episode. Saul talks about his 20 year career, coaching at the Academies of Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal and his work as an individual coach working with and developing some of the best young talent in world football.

GET 20% OFF THE MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference with the code 'podcastvc' Ivan Kepcija joins Saul to talk about his career which has seen him be instrumental in the rise of Croatian football to the top of World Football. Ivan was assitant Academy Manager then Academy Manger of Dinamo Zagreb. He then moved in to be a Technical Director at Legia Warszawa and then at Hajduk Split. Ivan discusses his work and the secrets behind the extraordinary success of Croatian Football.

Get 20% off the MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference with code 'podcastvc' https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/ Dan Micciche is regarded as one of the best coaches in the country and has had an extraordinary career already. Starting coaching a Crystal Palace he soon moved across London to work under Chris Ramsey and John McDermott at Spurs. He then moved on to work at MK Dons, responsible for brining such players as Dele Alli through. His next role came at the English FA where he supported Dan Ashworth and Gareth Southgate in developing and defining the new England DNA as U16 Head Coach. His most recent role in youth development came at Arsenal where he worked in numerous roles including head of the PDP.

Check out the MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference. 14 of the worlds best talent developers. Get 20% off with the code 'podcastvc' https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/ Chris Docherty has had an amazing career in the game already. Starting his career in Academy football in Scotland as a coach and then moving to work with the Scottish FA in their performance programme. He then moved to work firstly in China and then Croatia progressing and mixing his roles working in the first team environment and then more club systems and management. He is now Sporting Director of Budapest Honved one of the biggest clubs in Hungary.

The MyPersonalFootballCoach Virtual Conference is now live! 14 of the best player developers in world football present their ideas, methodology, hints and tips from elite level coaching. Download now and keep. GET 20% WITH 'PODCASTVC' CODE https://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/virtual-conference-2022/ Doug Lemov is one of the world leaders in teaching and learning in sports coaching and football. He's joined by Tim Bradbury, US Soccer Coach Educator and Glen Hicks, Ex Premier League Academy Coach as they discuss with Saul teaching and learning in football coaching and how to create and develop the optimum learning environment for your players.

Ricardo Moniz is regarded as the world's leading skills coach. His time at Spurs as first team skills coach left a legacy on the whole club but particularly the Academy. He has also worked at the Red Bull Clubs, Hamburg and Feyenoord. He has also has stints in management in England and Europe. Ricardo, a disciple of Wiel Coerver took his work to the next level and has helped inspire coaches from all around the world including Saul who regards Ricardo as pivotal in helping him develop his Dynamic Ball Mastery methodology.

Michel Ribeiro is the 1st Team Individual Coach Genk, he was also previously the Individual Coach in the Academy of the same club. Michel talks about his career and one of the worlds leading individual coaching specialists. Saul and Michel discuss how and why Genk have become one of the best player development environments in world football and how much of an impact technical coaching can have on players from 9 years to the 1st team. USE CODE LEVEL2PODCAST TO GET 20% OFF THE MyPersonalFootballCoach Level 2 E Learning Course.

Russell Martin joins Saul to talk about his footballing philosophy and how he made firstly MK Dons in League 1 one of the best possession football teams in Europe with stats only behind Man City and Barcelona. He also talks about his current role as Head Coach of Swansea City and how he's continued to try and develop a team that can dominate the ball from start to finish. Saul and Russell discuss how he implements this on the training ground and what have been the main challenges since he started coaching. GET 20% OFF THE NEW MyPersonalFootballCoach LEVEL 2 COURSE WITH PROMO CODE LEVEL2PODCAST

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Alex Nichols is a Technical Coach at Arsenal FC's Academy. Alex discusses what goes on on the grass at Hale End to make it one of best Academies in world football right now.

Andy Parslow is a specialist coach with AFC Wimbledon's 1st team. As set-piece coach he's managed to make Wimbledon's set-piece stats some of the best in the country. He's also had a long and distinguished career in Academy Football at Brentford, Watford and AFC Wimbledon. Saul and Andy discuss the rise of specialist coaches in football and how important they've become to players and teams at the highest level.

Joe Antonelli is Lead u14 and u15 Lead Coach at Crystal Palace's Academy. Joe talks about the great work going on at the South London club and their transition to a Cat 1 Academy. Joe also talks about his previous roles at Fulham and Barnet's Academy. This one is not to be missed.

Hasney Aljofree spent 10 years coaching at Manchester United's famous Academy. Working across the age groups from 12 to the 23s Hasney gives us the behind the scenes low down on one of the best Academies in world football and what went on day to day on and off the grass.

Timo Jankowski has had an incredible career starting working for the German FA and progressing to Grass Hopper Zurich where he held several positions including First Team Coach, Head of Performance and Head of Player Development. He is now Technical Director of Fiji. Timo shares his journey and experiences supporting player development in this unique environments.

Thiago Macedo has coached at 3 of the biggest clubs in Brazil. He joins Saul to discuss his career and give us the insight into one of the greatest football cultures in world football. Why and how do Brazil keep producing such technically excellent players and what are the differences in approaches by the country's biggest clubs.

Angel City FC is the new Womens Soccer Team Franchise in LA. Freya Coombe is Head Coach and joins Saul to discuss her inspirational story which has led to hear securing one of the top jobs in Womens Soccer. Freya started her career in the UK working for the FA and the Reading girls programme. She then moved to the USA to work in grass roots but was quickly given the opportunity of a life time to coach the Sky Blues (now Gotham FC) which she took with both hands. Thanks to Angel City FC for use of the profile picture.

Thomas Ruesink has been a skills coach at PSV for over 3 years. Working predominantly with the 10-13s age groups. Thomas gives us insight to one of the best Academies in Holland and how his unique 'chaos games' philosophy added something new to the Academy.

Zeb Jacobs has recently begun a new role as Head of Coaching at Rangers Football Club. Zeb talks about his coaching methodology that he moulded in his time at Royal Antwerp. Built around developing players ability to outplay opponents in 1v1 and creating masters of the ball. Zeb goes into detail about what he believes is the best way to develop top pros and the challenges of implementing a new philosophy at a top european club.

Paul Gray is the Senior Foundation Phase Coach at Blackburn Rovers. He's a Foundation Phase specialist with experience working at Accrington Stanley, Blackpool, Preston North End, Bodo Glimt in Norway until he's current position at Blackburn Rovers.