Gerry Heaney

Groundbreaking research from @mattcampbelltcd @tcddublin and @Futureneuro_ie on the links between #repetitive #head #impacts and #longterm #neurodegenerative #damage in #contact and #combat sports irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4181…

Positional Play experts often explain that, for them, football is a matter of space and time. But, as @xThomas_Nail explains, this framing relegates 'movement' to a location inside the jurisdiction of overriding spatio-temporal configurations with their own universal laws.

Super Six Series My Core Rondo Activites Decision Making - Awareness - First Touch - Speed Of Pass - Angles Of Support Moving from the most basic 4v2 to more complex movement and support variation. Which one would you use first? @power_ray @insidewrite1957 @Coach_Osku @CarlWild75 @TheS_Resource @BreakthruSoccer @coach_kevin_m @JustcoachMD @JB_SoccerCoach @Tad690 @tactica1thinker @CRobCoaching @CRobCoaching @ben_andreos @Jenksno1 @Daveyp1180 #Rondo #Coaching #Awareness

Super Six Series Key #3v3 Games (Part 1) Goal-oriented classics to build awareness, decision making, creativity, imagination and, most importantly, PLAY! From four-goal fundamentals → forwards locked in → end-zone scoring → reversed zones → asymmetric attacking/defending. Do you have a go-to 3v3 game that would be in your core six? #TheYearOf3v3 #football #SSG @insidewrite1957 @Coach_Osku @RJPcoach @JustcoachMD @JB_SoccerCoach @coach_kevin_m @Tad690 @CoachingFamily @TheS_Resource @BreakthruSoccer @ben_andreos @Jenksno1 @SessionShareNet @ContactCounts @globrod

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You want to know what "elite" 😉 training looks like for 11-12 year olds... Hint hint: It doesn't look like a college strength and program. A program that is more structured, highly technical and higher in intensity you might be missing out of the whole point of development. ##LTAD

Tactical analysis of Motherwell FC. For a more complete breakdown, visit our YouTube channel: The Game Changer Community. ✍️ Jamie Hamilton - LiveTagPro

New research: 10 Year Analysis of Bronco Fitness Test in Super Rugby Athletes Outstanding normative data set ✅ Elite athletes ✅ Large sample size (n=460) ✅ Large testing pool (>1500 test observations) ✅ Male and female norms ✅ Positional breakdowns

Most youth athletes don’t need more conditioning… They need to learn how to move. We’ve got 8-year-olds doing ladders and suicides...who can’t balance, skip, or control their body. That’s the problem. Speed Demons program gives45 athletic activities and games you can use: 🏡 Backyard 🏋️ Gym 🏈 Start of practice Build real speed through: ⚡ Coordination 🤸 Spatial awareness 🧠 Movement skill Ages 7–12 D.M. for details

Here is a breakdown of Liverpools training philosophy and subsequent outcomes Seems pertinent now the club are nudging influences to discuss lack of training

A couple and their 5 and 7 year old kids… Shot and killed in front of their 2 other kids by the IDF This would be on every front page and condemned by politicians far and wide if the victims has been Israelis And yet when they’re Palestinians… Utterly utterly shameful.

An old but gold #SundayShare on different UEFA B practice design structures. You can date it by the fact that it's building on the Level 2, rather than the UEFA C! It's still as relevant today as it was back then. @SundayShare10

Accentuated Loaded Eccentric Jumps are a unique high-speed dynamic strength stimulus They allow for loading of eccentric strength qualities at high speeds, without inhibiting concentric rates of force development

Bodø/Glimt / Kjetil Knutsen - session example & progressions 1) Passing Drill 3 players play combinations with focus on: • Lay-offs • 2 players each side (min. width concept) • Give & go • Over/Underlap > create local 2v1 situations 2) Passing Drill — + finishing Same patterns/ideas — with a 1 touch finishing into goal 3) 3v2 Finishing Progression to opposed situation with focus on: • Pin the opponent • Create local 2v1 against opponent • Combinations to beat the defenders

The idea of Relationism is to have highly structured teams, but using structures that are not primarily spatial.

Repeat jumps are a powerful tool to improve fast dynamic strength. Repeat jumps: - Improve eccentric rate of force development - Increase tolerance to stretch loads - Enhance stretch shortening cycle function - Act as a bridge to higher intensity modalities such as depth jumps

SC Verl | Video Analysis One of the most extreme vertical teams I’ve watched in a long time Hidden Gem in the 3.Liga in Germany Diagonals | Shadow Play | Short proximity attacks with Tilting Watch these clips A thread @Effmatch

🚨NEW ARTICLE Why Has Attacking Football Stagnated? I've moved my new writing over to Substack. Click the link below to read the article.

Marcelo Bielsa created one hundred seventy exercises to represent all technical and tactical situations a player may face. This includes five specific ways to create separation from a defender and twenty six different movements required to receive the ball correctly. Each movement is trained individually and then applied within realistic scenarios. Read the full piece here: keepitonthedeck.com/blog/marcelo-b…

Best of luck to our former academy and senior player Alex Murphy, who starts for Newcastle in the Champions League tonight. 👏🏻 Go n-éirí leat, Alex ☘️ #IsATribalThing | #championsleague