Academy Football Network Podcast

We are back with Season 2 of The Academy Football Network.

Apple Westcott is a  former fire fighter now Lead Phase Coach and involved in recruitment at MK Dons.

This is a powerful episode that pulls no punches! Open and honest!

This episode we discuss creating a high pressure pressure nurturing environment and is that possible? Apple's personal philosophy vs the Club's, can they coexist? and technical vs physical players? 

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We are back with Season 2 of The Academy Football Network.

Apple Westcott is a  former fire fighter now Lead Phase Coach and involved in recruitment at MK Dons.

This is a powerful episode that pulls no punches! Open and honest!

This episode we discuss transitioning from Firefighter to coach, egos and leadership to qualifications and jobs.  

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We are back with Season 2 of The Academy Football Network.

Anthony Limbrick is an Australian born football coach, who most recently was the assistant manager of Grimsby Town. Anthony has enjoyed Academy coaching roles with Southampton and West Ham. Anthony was also part of the coaching staff at for England under-17's. In May 2017, Limbrick was appointed manager of National League club Woking, leading the club to the FA Cup second round, after beating Football League club Bury.

In this final episode we discuss 1st team management, the interview process, recruitment and transiting from manger to assistant manager. 

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We are back with season 2 of the Academy Football Network Podcast. 

This is part 3 of 3 from our discussion with Saul Isaksson-Hurst, former Academy coach at Tottenham and Chelsea and world renowned 1-2-1 coach and coaching app creator. Saul has passion for technical football and believes it is the number one foundation a football player must have. He has coached hundreds of players to take their game to the next level using his unique philosophy of creating dynamic and explosive technical players. His vision is to see every player master the technical aspects of the game and has created the “Dynamic Ball Mastery” programme which incorporates the philosophy and is a proven individual online technical programme that a player can benefit from in their own time to supplement their normal training routines.

Part 3 we discuss working unopposed, differences between coerver coaching and dealing with criticism online. 

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We are back with Season 2 of The Academy Football Network.

Anthony Limbrick is an Australian born football coach, who most recently was the assistant manager of Grimsby Town. Anthony has enjoyed Academy coaching roles with Southampton and West Ham. Anthony was also part of the coaching staff at for England under-17's. In May 2017, Limbrick was appointed manager of National League club Woking, leading the club to the FA Cup second round, after beating Football League club Bury.

This episode we discuss the challenges that come with the Lead Phase role; managing parents, challenging behaviour, release and retain and player mentors. 

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We are back with season 2 of the Academy Football Network Podcast. 

This is part 2 of 3 from our discussion with Saul Isaksson-Hurst, former Academy coach at Tottenham and Chelsea and world renowned 1-2-1 coach and coaching app creator. Saul has passion for technical football and believes it is the number one foundation a football player must have. He has coached hundreds of players to take their game to the next level using his unique philosophy of creating dynamic and explosive technical players. His vision is to see every player master the technical aspects of the game and has created the “Dynamic Ball Mastery” programme which incorporates the philosophy and is a proven individual online technical programme that a player can benefit from in their own time to supplement their normal training routine.

Part 2 we discuss Saul trying to achieve marginal gains with the players that he works with and how some academies aren't always appreciative of the work he is doing with their signed young players.   

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We are back with Season 2 of The Academy Football Network.

Anthony Limbrick is an Australian born football coach, who most recently was the assistant manager of Grimsby Town. Anthony has enjoyed Academy coaching roles with Southampton and West Ham. Anthony was also part of the coaching staff at for England under-17's. In May 2017, Limbrick was appointed manager of National League club Woking, leading the club to the FA Cup second round, after beating Football League club Bury.

This episode we discuss building up experience through grassroots coaching and how that experience steadied Anthony for his transition into Academy coaching. 

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We are back with season 2 of the Academy Football Network Podcast. 

This is part 1 of 3 from our discussion with Saul Isaksson-Hurst, former Academy coach at Tottenham and Chelsea and world renowned 1-2-1 coach and coaching app creator. Saul has passion for technical football and believes it is the number one foundation a football player must have. He has coached hundreds of players to take their game to the next level using his unique philosophy of creating dynamic and explosive technical players. His vision is to see every player master the technical aspects of the game and has created the “Dynamic Ball Mastery” programme which incorporates the philosophy and is a proven individual online technical programme that a player can benefit from in their own time to supplement their normal training routines.

Part 1 we discuss Saul's journey into academy football and the difference between working at two top academies and why someone should consider a 1-2-1 coach.  

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We are back with season 2 of the Academy Football Network Podcast. 

This is part 1 of 3 from our discussion with Paul Holder, National Coach Developer and former Head of Coaching at Brighton and Hove Albion. Part 3 Paul Holder discusses the district football, coaching badges and professionalising the children too soon.  

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We are back with season 2 of the Academy Football Network Podcast. 

This is part 3 of 3 from our discussion with Darren Sarll, Yeovil Town Manager, Former Stevenage Manager and Former Watford and Stevenage Academy Manager. Part 3 we discuss a difficult moment in Darren's career and how the the young people help him through. 

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