20MT#233 - Oliver Morgan - Celtic's Head Of Academy Sports Science
20 Minute Tims
James Flynn
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Welcome to the latest episode of 20 Minute Tims.
On this edition, we hear from Celtic's Head of Academy Sports Science Oliver Morgan in a wide-ranging discussion on the role the sports science plays in the development of young footballers and its growing importance at Celtic.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Today I am delighted to be joined by Oliver Morgan. |
| 0:20.0 | Oliver Morgan is the head of Academy Sports Science. |
| 0:23.4 | Thanks very much for joining me, mate. |
| 0:25.1 | No worries, Ma'am, nice to be on here. |
| 0:27.1 | Thanks to the invite. |
| 0:28.1 | How things then? |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah, good, yeah, good. |
| 0:30.5 | Just trying to navigate this crazy time that's COVID-19 lockdown as I'm sure we all are |
| 0:36.0 | and you know the implications for work and personal life but I can't complain I'm healthy and well |
| 0:40.4 | so and it's been sunny and Glasgow as well isn't it the last few weeks so so now this is always like |
| 0:46.1 | weather like this last summer was it but there you go |
| 0:50.8 | weather already so can't complain. |
| 0:53.0 | Well you suppose you have been here since January 2019 haven't you so you came at the |
| 0:58.8 | absolute height of winter in Glasgow so it was a shock to the system in it? It was yeah we me and my |
| 1:05.6 | girlfriend moved that from from Liverpool and it snowed in Liverpool when we left |
| 1:09.3 | it stopped snowing on the way and then we were here for about five minutes and it started snowing again. |
| 1:14.4 | I think it snowed three times in the first week and our first week in January. |
| 1:18.5 | So it was a bit of a shock to the system for sure, but now we're getting used to it. |
| 1:22.4 | We'll come on to your row at Celtic but we'll just take you back. |
| 1:25.6 | You studied at Coventry and Liverpool John Moore's universities. |
| 1:30.5 | So was it sports science you studied? Yeah, so I did my undergraduate at Birmingham and then I started |
| 1:36.1 | working at an intern at Coventry City Football Club and I was working there. As I said, doing my internship was at the first team. |
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