On the road mostly, with a wee trip on a boat
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Someone explain to me like im a 5yrs old how Atlético Madrid's team bus came to London
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Coach Dave Kerr
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Coach Dave Kerr
@DaveKerrPT
SFA Volunteer of the Year in Girls & Women’s football 2025 Coach at Vibes FC: fun-first girls soccer Personal Trainer: Strength training for female athletes
Katılım Ağustos 2025
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Love the thought that goes into the branding for new independent clubs.
I just picked Vibes at random and now I’m landed with it 😂😭
My logo is also a shambles but hey ho
Cleveland All Soccer@cleprosoccer
She’s here ✨ Cleveland Astra was named as much for the cosmos that inspire joy, curiosity and wonder – as the soccer stars that consistently emerge from our region. Latin for “stars,” @ClevelandAstra aims to be a gathering force. A constant, a guiding light. Shaping the core of our crest is Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation that’s ever present in the sky and points explorers toward the North Star. We will continue to tell the story of this team, all of the stars across Northeast Ohio, and create this new chapter in Cleveland sports history, together. Let’s go, Astra! ⚽️
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The venue use has DOUBLED the price of my let overnight.
I either pass that back to parents or fold.
It’s a fucking disgrace
SaveGrassRootsFooty@savegrassroots
The Privatization of grassroots football
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@coach_kevin_m Great read Kev, thanks for sharing.
The question of “the product” (as in what the parents are paying for) is too overlooked imo.
Most aren’t paying £40 a month to help their local grassroots club add a plate to their trophy cabinet.
They want a healthier, happier kid back.
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"I realised I was selling the same thing as everyone else.
A membership.
And when everyone is selling a membership, what are you really competing on?
Price."
I've run businesses and football businesses for over 15 years.
Here's some stuff that can help you.
Kevin Middleton@coach_kevin_m
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A cache of giant magnets, anvils and rocket powered roller skates has been discovered in Helen St.
Police have upgraded the terror threat to “hilarious”
Dearieme@mothtothelamp2
There was a bad smash on the slip road to the clyde tunnel earlier on. Someone painted cartoon tunnel entrances on the under pass walls. Obviously hope everyone is okay. But surely not!
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Coach Dave Kerr retweetledi
🚨 MEMBER BONUS
𝐄𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫
For CoachPower members ONLY - and you can join before May 31 👀
🗓️ The 2nd intake of my 12-month ‘Full Monty’ Membership opens this weekend after a huge January intake!
Since Jan, members have had:
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✅ 10 FA CPD Hours
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A lot of coaches already know what this is about… if you don’t, now’s the time.
🔥 June intake starts soon
❤️ Like this tweet and I’ll send you info when doors open this weekend
“𝑅𝑎𝑦’𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑜-𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡”
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The suspect has been pictured fleeing the scene
Dearieme@mothtothelamp2
There was a bad smash on the slip road to the clyde tunnel earlier on. Someone painted cartoon tunnel entrances on the under pass walls. Obviously hope everyone is okay. But surely not!
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@grammcen @CoachDougieA Yip.
It’s absolutely rife. Secondary starts, they get that wee bit of freedom and they just don’t have the same connection boys have to the game and so leave. Kills me man.
I’m trying to do something different with Vibes to keep them in the game.
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@DaveKerrPT @CoachDougieA We are losing too many girls at that 14 year old stage, the team I was coaching last year we had a really good team, lost a few players to other teams due to normal politics at a grassroots team. A few others who had been playing since 10, decided to stop playing, team folded.
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Really interesting research around late maturation in youth players. ⚽️
Perhaps particularly insightful for our elite academies here in Scotland 🏴. How many talented players are being released because they are not physically strong/big enough yet?
Late maturers develop additional skills to cope with playing against physically stronger opponents - do we release them too early before the can use the skills in a more competitive environment? Is there a long-term plan in place at the club for these players? Do the SFA provide enough opportunity for bio-banded matches?
Late maturers are likelier to have:
- increased technical ability
- increased resilience
- improved decision making under pressure
- increased creativity
So why are our academies still over-indexed with early in the year birthdays?
Jonathan Stoop@jonathanstoop
A longitudinal study of 47 players at a top Spanish academy used bone-age data to classify biological maturation, with career outcomes tracked 15 years later. Late maturers reached professional football at 30.8% vs. 5.6% for early maturers. Every player from the cohort competing in a top 5 European league at follow-up belonged to the late-maturing group. Biological maturation and relative age effect research are measuring the same selection error from different angles: academy and international selection systematically favors the physically advanced, at the cost of long-term development potential. mdpi.com/2411-5142/10/2…
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@grammcen @CoachDougieA Aye, it makes a massive difference - imo it needs revised or clubs should break and recompile teams so every girl gets a chance at a “senior” year
This way late developers get accommodated.
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@DaveKerrPT @CoachDougieA Get you now, my wee girl is a Jan 2010, and when she started playing a few years ago it was a team that would have been U18 this year so she was one of the youngest. Her recent team has just moved up from U14 to 16's and she is now the oldest and you can see the difference.
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@grammcen @CoachDougieA She can have potential, but she’s 11+1 day playing against 14+364 days
I’ve seen players with great potential, but that leap can crush them and force them to stop playing - up or out.
I’d bet that some of my Vibes crew will be amazing at 18 because they’ve stayed in the game
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@grammcen @CoachDougieA When you trip over an age bracket, you have to step up.
As a result of fewer players than the boys game, there aren’t the same tiers and levels.
So, to the point:
A late developing girl can “age out” of u12 and find herself playing against players almost 3 years older.
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@power_ray If you are paying the club, you are a customer and are entitled to the product- a healthy, happy, stimulated child
If it’s free, you are entitled to leave
If the are paying your child, the fair enough.
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That’s grim. If you take a kid to any activity, they should have a great day taking part
Grassroots@Teamgrassroots_
👉Confessions of a Grassroots Parent. 🗣️It was clear from the 1st game that my son was going to have minimal part in the tournament as he played for the last 90 seconds of the 1st game. I didn’t say anything. In total my son played just over 6 minutes at a full day tournament.
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@alike_no @the_singlepivot @JOYofthePEOPLE I have this issue tomorrow, a realitive newbie in with some very experienced girls.
A proper challenge but I’ll get there!
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Just be careful with letting them turn up and play with kids who have no grounding in the game to begin with.
The key with street soccer and playing in the park with whoever was there was that you'd have the older kids who would lead the way, kids your own age who were good competition, and younger kids to experiment against.
The older/better kids were the culture setters...dribbling, throwing out skills, defending, overhead kicks, back heels etc so you need to set this culture first before just letting them play.
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Every club should be beholden to allow local kids to play for the simple joy of playing with no rules or structure.
Vibes FC is (at best) semi-structured and the freedom, expression and energy is miles ahead of what it is in club training.
Michael O'Neill@alike_no
The nature of today's society means that kids do not play amongst themselves in the street and in the park anywhere close to what we did as kids. That means that the overwhelming majority of a player's development comes from the clubs and the coaches they play for. Unfortunately, clubs and coaches don't fully understand that responsibility. And it really shows. There needs to be a complete overhaul and transformation of the education and training given to grassroots coaches.
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@the_singlepivot @JOYofthePEOPLE Great shout on both counts!
Do you see a difference in the “free play” session as well?
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@DaveKerrPT I just helped my town organize “free-play Fridays”
No coaching. No drills Just show up, hand out pinnies and play
If you are interested in continuing to explore the benefits of free-play, I recommend listening to some of the podcasts that @JOYofthePEOPLE has been on!
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@MsLMG79 An absolute disgrace. The girls I coach are this age and I would never dream of anything like this.
It is 100% a safeguarding issue.
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@AdvFtbAcad I can’t understand the rush to move grassroots players up formats so soon.
In Scotland, 12 year old girls play on the same size park in the same format as adult men.
Nuts.
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Game time is crucial for player development.
But it's not the most important piece of the puzzle.
The amount of individual time a player spends with the ball will always be the biggest factor.
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Coach Dave Kerr retweetledi
Kids with an active dad are 3.5x more likely to be active themselves. With both parents active, that goes up to nearly 6x.
Your habits have a bigger impact on your family than you think.
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