BLOCK vs RANDOM PRACTICE: READ, PLAN, DO

Mar 15, 21 BLOCK vs RANDOM PRACTICE: READ, PLAN, DO

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How to Optimize Your Practice with Motor Learning Key Points Game skills are complexEvery time you do a skill in a game, regardless of sport, you have to read, plan, and do. We call this process the “total skill It’s all about transferTransfer is the word motor learning scientists use to describe real learning. When...

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FAI PLAYER DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND 2020

This is the Football Association Of Ireland Plan for 2020 to 2022 Where do we want to be? Player-Development-in-Ireland-201023-Ruud-DoktorDownload END! We always like to hear your opinions and views. If you feel you have something to say or content to share, please comment below or email...

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Belgium’s Rise To the Top..

This fascinating article about Belgium’s rise to world football. What hits home the most is that we could never achieve this in Ireland with the narrow-minded people running the game. There are very few people who are really interested in developing the game in this country. Unfortunately most have their own agendas and...

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Street Soccer Is Coming Back..

Feb 25, 14 Street Soccer Is Coming Back..

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The FAI & Fingal City Council have launched a new and exciting Street Skills football program. We regularly talk about kids not playing street football anymore and how the games we played as kids were some of the most influential in terms of developing game intelligence. This new method is trying to achieve just that. Press...

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We need your IDEAS!

I’m planning to send out a survey on the ‘Future of Youth Football’ in Ireland and need your help. I want to know any ideas you have and based on these ideas, we will send out a questionnaire to see what people really want. This is what will happen: If you had a blank canvas, what would you do? Tell me about your...

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Is the SFAI Chairman going it alone…..

or has he come up with the future blueprint for Irish football? An email has been doing the rounds; now, you probably haven’t received it because it was only sent to press. A press release about ‘vision for future of Irish Football’, apparently even members of the SFAI didn’t receive it, not sure they were...

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Non Competition is the way to Success

Just got back from pilot exercise put on by Jason Carey, Director of Coaching at Peamount United FC on behalf of the DDSL. It seems that after all these years of getting it so wrong, the DDSL have now turned to the Grassroots Coaches of some of Dublins biggest community clubs, to come up with a pathway that will enhance...

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