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In this clip from Coaches Corner, Dan spoke to Professor Dave Richardson about his illustrious career in psychology and sports science, including working alongside Liverpool Football Club.
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0:00.0 | You mentioned when you're describing sort of your career today in terms of like you're working |
0:08.5 | to football clubs. |
0:09.5 | Now I've got the list here, obviously. |
0:10.8 | Liverpool involved Everton, Manchester, Nice and Manchester City. |
0:13.3 | You've covered the North West, it's fair to say. |
0:15.0 | You don't need to tell us about you're going to work into Liverpool, but just in terms of what your capacity and what your role was there. |
0:20.1 | Yeah, it was more as a, from a consultant, outside of supervision. |
0:26.5 | And when I was at John Moore's, we had a really good relationship with both of the football |
0:31.7 | clubs, so Everton and Liverpool. |
0:33.4 | So with Everton, we set up an internship program, which still goes on. |
0:38.8 | So it's sort of 20 years within that. |
0:41.4 | So again, that's around sport nutrition, sport psychology, strength and conditioning, |
0:45.2 | and performance analysis. |
0:46.4 | And then that's overseen by the academics and the students get intern. |
0:51.2 | They have to compete for internships. |
0:53.4 | The Liverpool model was slightly different. |
0:55.2 | So when we had the conversation with Rick a number of years ago, |
0:58.8 | it was around, you know, again, it's trying to infiltrate the football world with academics. |
1:04.6 | So again, it was a cultural element. |
1:06.8 | We're trying to, the applied practice academics and also people who actually not going into a football club and telling people who have the craft knowledge what to do, but basically trying to understand what are the problems you've got within the industry and how can we provide some scientific understanding of that to enable you to develop best practice and also enhance your practitioners. |
1:28.4 | So Liverpool went for a model of funding PhD studentships, so the sort of doctoral levels, |
1:37.1 | and they will be practitioner come researchers. So again, the oversight of that. And then you've got a number of the sports science team at Liverpool now have come through the John Moore's pathway. |
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