The Welsh Way: Inside ‘Harvard for football coaches’
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman & BBC Sport Wales’ Dafydd Pritchard look at how the Welsh FA are fast becoming world leaders in producing elite coaches – with the likes of Mikel Arteta, Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira being just some of many illustrious products of the FAW’s coaching system.
In this episode the guys head to Newport, where they’re given access to the FAW's 2025 Pro License course in Newport, and speak to some of this years candidates who graduate this summer.
You’ll hear from the likes of former Arsenal defender Gaël Clichy, who talks about spending time with the SAS as part of the course. Nuri Şahin opens up about his research project on the All Blacks and why he wanted to study culture after being sacked by Borussia Dortmund in January this year, and Wales Manager Craig Bellamy discusses his love of Japanese culture and why part of his approach to coaching is to try to 'save people' from the mistakes he made.
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| 0:00.0 | Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy. |
| 0:05.1 | My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC. |
| 0:08.7 | It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, |
| 0:13.5 | moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous. |
| 0:19.1 | And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music |
| 0:21.7 | means we can tell those stories like no one else. |
| 0:24.5 | We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative. |
| 0:28.6 | So whether you want an insightful take on music right now |
| 0:31.3 | or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music, |
| 0:36.1 | check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.3 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:44.3 | This is the Football Daily Podcast with Steve Crosman. |
| 0:49.4 | Okay, we all remember Welsh football's hot bucket hat summer of 2016, right? |
| 1:00.0 | That's it! |
| 1:03.3 | Wales have beaten Belgium. |
| 1:06.3 | Amohyd? We're still here. |
| 1:09.9 | When floppy headwear became cultural and historic headway was made. |
| 1:14.9 | Dream, don't be afraid to have dreams. |
| 1:17.2 | When a first tournament for 58 years became just the start. |
| 1:21.6 | Storm, a red storm is coming. |
| 1:25.6 | Oh yes, |
| 1:32.3 | Gar-Bill on a war cup mission. |
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