Episode 542: The Ripple Effect Podcast (Dr. Chris Platts | Becoming A Pro: The Truth & The Myths)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Chris Platts is a career coach working in professional football. He has a PhD examining the lives of 303 young footballers and is the author of the largest independent study into the career trajectories of professional players. Now, he disseminates the insights from this data to young players and their families, allowing them to predict the future, navigate their careers and reduce the stress that negatively impacts performances. His end goal is to have all players and their families enjoying their time in football, safe in the knowledge that whether they get a professional contract or not, they will thrive in life.
Dr. CHRIS PLATTS:
WEBSITE: www.chrisplatts.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple effect. |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact. I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:38.3 | I'm |
| 0:39.3 | I'm |
| 0:40.3 | I'm your host, |
| 1:12.1 | Ricardo Brandis, also known as Rick and a great episode for you today. Today we get to talk about |
| 1:16.4 | a topic that I don't get the opportunity to discuss a lot. We're going to talk about sports, |
| 1:21.3 | parenting, football, or also known as soccer in the U.S., child development, and other related |
| 1:26.9 | topics. You're going to enjoy |
| 1:28.0 | this conversation with Dr. Chris Pratt. Dr. Pratt was a part of the biggest independent study |
| 1:32.9 | examining youth athletes becoming pro. He's a coach, he's a consultant, he's a researcher, |
| 1:38.4 | and he helped us better understand the truth about becoming a pro athlete and also the myths. |
| 1:46.0 | So if you're a parent, if you're a coach, if you're just a fan of sports, you're going to enjoy this conversation. And if you do |
| 1:51.2 | enjoy this conversation, also check out Project Footballer. He was a recent guest on that show. It's |
| 1:57.2 | one of my favorite shows that also hits on these type of topics. But before we jump into |
| 2:02.4 | this amazing conversation, a couple updates. As some of you guys might know, my YouTube |
| 2:06.7 | channel, my original YouTube channel that got banned in 2021 has been reinstated for some weird |
| 2:12.6 | reason. They recently gave me the opportunity to appeal the banning of my original YouTube channel, |
| 2:18.6 | and I appealed it, and I have it back. |
| 2:21.5 | So I think somebody at YouTube is a fan of the ripple effect podcast, because I don't understand |
| 2:25.8 | why all the past episodes are still there. |
| 2:29.8 | I'm uploading all the archives, and we're just about up to date. |
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