Category: Coaching Clinics

The Coach Diary and DBSportsTour want to thank Champion for being our main Sponsors of the FCBarcelona Clinic.

Also our Partners Nivea for Men, Gleeson Group (Estrella Damm) Carton House Hotel, The Evening Herald and Lucozade Sport.

Dear Coach,

Thank you for attending the Champion FCBarcelona Coaching Clinic at Carton House.   It truly was a memorable experience for both Antonio and I and we hope you felt the same.

It was a fantastic 2 days and apart from the weather we truly enjoyed every part of it from the theory session in the morning to the drills and Q&A in the afternoon. It was great to meet so many like minded coaches and mentors. Albert was a true gent and his interaction and patience with the kids was something special, I think we could all learn a thing or two from Albert’s way of coaching.

We hope you enjoyed the day and like us felt it was something very special to have a coach of Albert Benaiges calibre, who not only is an amazing man but has also someone who has nurtured some of the world greatest players. It was fantastic to see how he interacts with kids and coaches.

I hope the experience has made you realise that winning is not everything and development is what we need to start working on more. Albert said that from u7s to 16s should not be about winning, only about development and teaching the players to be good people. With this is mind, we look forward to bringing Sporting Club De Portugal (Sporting Lisbon) to Ireland in May.

More details to follow shortly so make sure we have your correct email address.

Amazing facts about Sporting Club De Portugal

The only club in the world that has developed through the academy two FIFA world players of the year. Luis Figo started in Sporting age 13 and Ronaldo started in Sporting age 12.

Currently has 7 players in the 1st team which came through the Academy

10 other players internally developed are playing for 1st teams

Transfer out last year over 20million for Joao Moutinho and Miguel Veloso

2010/2011 3 new players coming up from the Academy have integrated into the 1st team, Vitor Golas, Cedric Soares and Andre Santos

Average of 7 players on each Portuguese national teams from u16 to u19 (10 sporting players are currently on Portugal’s u17 national team)

Since the new academy open in 2002, 24 players from the youth teams integrated in Sporting professional teams

Since 2002 the Academy have developed more than 100 players currently playing in professional football in Portugal (75) and around Europe (25)

Since 2002 Sporting obtained gains of more than €90m with transfers of players developed in the Academy

2008: UEFA Classified Sporting Academy in the top 3 in the World alongside FC Barcelona and Lyon

2010: Sporting had been awarded with the certification system for quality management, ISO9001 and also received the recognition of the first level of excellence from the European Foundation for quality management. Sporting are the first Academy in Europe to achieve this recognitions.

Sporting is a recognized as a world leader in Youth Football and Player Development

Sporting has 30 Schools in Portugal with over 6,000 kids of which 45 join the full Academy every year

NEW Academy to open this year are South Africa and Saudi Arabia

Sporting plan to open Academies in Europe (Ireland) USA, South America, Turkey, China, Macau, Hong Kong, Japan,

Sporting will open a School in Toronto in May; Sporting Club Toronto

The museum situated in stadium of Jose Alvalade has more than 16.000 Cups and Trophies.

Need we say more….

Pic. Luis Figo

Thanks to everyone who helped David and I make the Champion FCBarcelona Coaching clinic overall great success. Mary, Sandra, Jako and the kids, Julian, Doran, Glenn, Robbie, Stephen H aka security, Hazel, Ian & Linda @ Phoenix Embroidery, Lisa & the hubby, Juan Mari aka interpretor, Enric, Franc, Emily @ Champion, Joe@The Herald, Andy O’Neill, David, Mark & Sam at Carton house all you the Coaches who attended and of course Albert Benaiges! Cheers to you all, without you this couldn’t have happened and now we have a platform to build upon!

I didn’t get to see much of the drills, but of the one I saw I picked up on at least 2-3 things I will be doing from now on, Albert in particular was amazing with the kids and demonstrated such patience with all of them.

Any feedback both negative and positive would be appreciated, there would certainly be a few things we would do differently and we want to hear from you.

Thanks

The Coach Dairy and DBSportstours

Only “1 week” to go until FCBs Coaches Albert, Franc and Enric arrive on our shores; we hope you are as excited as we are!

The Champion FCB Course Content booklet looks amazing and will be something you can cherish forever. We will be sending out an email to all attendants today.

Some of the items being coached on day include..
Tactical Methods: Offensive Content (Width & Depth, circulating the ball, support, one-two, losing markers, pressing, marking, man to man, zonal defence, Mixed Marking, Covering, Switching…
Technical methods: Defensive Skills, Playing the ball (turning & trapping the ball, protecting/shielding, peripheral, surface of contact/speed of execution, right distance) Passing (Types, varieties, passing line, Vision of play, balance, position of supporting foot, correct surface of contact, Side foot: Instep: medium and long distance passes, speed and intensity of passes) Control, Dribbling, Shooting, Passing: What they focus, Vision of Play are just a little sample of how amazing this clinic is going to be.

We look forward to meeting you next week.

The next phase of the NDSL Coaches Club took place today, myself and David Berber had the pleasure to speak to the coaches on the course and thanks to Mitch Whitty for inviting us along.

NDSL academy put together a fantastic half day coaching extravaganza for all present and future members and non members of the Coaches Club.

You can join membership of the Coaches Club at a slight discount with new members only having to pay 85euros for access to all the remaining sessions for the rest of the season. The festival of coaching kicked off at 10am until late in the afternoon: The first hour focused on goalkeeping coaching run by Dave Martin the head goalkeeping coach at the NDSL Academy Number 1 Club. Everything from what to do during your club training nights, to how to warm up the goalie on match day was covered. Not knowing how to train and what to do with one of the most important players on your team, and not having that player prepared for the game will be a thing of the past.

A&D Sports Science Group

At 11am: Development in terms of strength and conditioning with A&D Sports Science Group. Eddie and Karl from A&D put on a session that highlighted the next stage in player development, and also put on a more detailed program of the physical training requirements needed by players in the future.

Shay Caffery the Sporting Fingal Physio

Future players will need to have adequate conditioning and fitness to play the new fast paced technical game that soccer is turning into. As a bonus for the day at 12noon: Shay Caffery the Sporting Fingal Physio came in to do a basic first aid course and combine it with a basic physio demonstration that every coach should have in his locker. This was to be able to identify minor injuries that players develop during games and also be able to access what course of treatment maybe required for those injured players.

Shay demonstrated what kind of training players could be doing while recovering from injuries so they don’t take longer than is necessary to get back playing football.

After Lunch John Devine and Robbie Moahan from Sporting Fingal, and with Mitch Whitty the Technical Director of the NDSL Academy put on practical coaching sessions based around what kind of training u14’s/U15’s/U16’s/and U17’s should be doing on a weekly basis.

These sessions will help coaches put together coaching programs designed for these particular age groups, and to help you as a coach access your player’s strengths and abilities.

This one of coaching bonanza is designed to highlight just how far the NDSL Academy and the NDSL Coaches Club are going in an effort to help football coaches develop the skills, and the confidence to put on practical relevant coaching sessions designed to get young players to play the modern high tempo game that soccer has become and you don’t need to have any coaching qualifications or huge coaching or football experience to get the benefits the Coaches Club, half day coaching fair will empower the new football coaches.

The Coaches Club is getting bigger every time they hold these sessions and they would love to see even more coaches come on board to learn more. You dont have to be in the NDSL leagues to join, they are for all coaches and anyone looking to get into coaching.

They want coaches who feel they have an idea they would like to share with other like minded coaches, and come forward with a view to maybe putting on a coaching session they feel would be a benefit the members and to football as a whole.

The NDSL would love to here from you or maybe even consider inviting them to come and talk to members of your club.

This is great Club and certainly a fantastic tool for Coaches, it can only enhance your Coaching education, fairplay to NDSL for having such a forward thinking vision!

If you want to get involved log on to www.ndsl.ie for more information.