Should football clubs be better at developing individuals?
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Jon Mackenzie is joined by Harry Brooks to explore what it is that individual coaches do and if clubs could get more upside from using them…
Why did Harry make the decision to work with individuals?
What does prep look like for Harry’s sessions?
Do clubs refuse players to work with individual coaches?
Should clubs hire / implement coaches with technical specialism more?
This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | I am John McKenzie and I'm afraid you've got me all on my own today |
| 0:14.8 | because my good pal and producer Mike Zimmerman isn't here. |
| 0:18.2 | But that does not mean to say that we have skimped on today's |
| 0:21.2 | episode because we are going to talk all about the concept of individual coaching because my |
| 0:26.7 | guest today is Harry Brooks, who is a coach who specialises at working with individuals. And we're |
| 0:31.6 | going to talk all about what that process looks like, how he might structure those sessions, |
| 0:35.4 | but also some of the bigger picture questions. So |
| 0:38.0 | issues of how football clubs actually work with their individuals, whether or not they're skimping |
| 0:42.8 | a little bit on the needs of those individuals and their wider careers, because they are |
| 0:47.2 | more concerned about the collective needs of the club. And so plenty of questions for us to get |
| 0:51.9 | our heads around. And as always, the best thing for us to do is to jump straight into that conversation. |
| 0:57.7 | So here is Harry Brooks talking about coaching individuals on whether or not football clubs should be better at developing them. |
| 1:14.7 | Harry, it's great to have you on the TIF Football Podcast. |
| 1:15.8 | Thank you so much for coming in. |
| 1:16.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:17.3 | Looking forward to it. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, I think there's lots for us to talk about, |
| 1:23.5 | so I'm really looking forward to chatting to you as well about coaching individuals in particular and whether or not clubs can get more upside from this approach. |
| 1:27.1 | But let's start off with a bit of background stuff. So tell us a bit about how you got into coaching in the first place. Yes, I like most young lads. My dream was to become a professional footballer. It wasn't quite the level. But I knew I wanted to stay involved in the game in some capacity. And I've been coaching since I'm 29 now. I've been coaching since I was 15, |
| 1:45.9 | started off very early stages of foundations, grassroots, things like that. But I knew I wanted |
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