Chris McGinn is a former professional footballer, and coach at clubs including Arsenal, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Fulham, QPR, Wigan, Sheffield Wednesday, and many more.

Chris has been a coach developer, tutoring B and C license coaches for the FA, and working in the girls academy at Exeter City.

Today, Chris offers 1-2-1 and group coaching sessions in the Newton Abbot area, and coach education 1-2-1s online with coaches all over the world.

In this episode, Chris talks about his career, and gives insights on coaching that I think every coach will find interesting.

In this episode of the Coaching Youth Football podcast, we talk to Tony Mee, author of several books including his most recent, Through The Thirds.

We discuss the process of planning a season's coaching syllabus, and how Tony works through the thirds up the pitch and then back again.

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You can buy Tony's new book directly, and in doing so, you will help us raise even more money for the Huntington’s Disease Association and allow a higher percentage to go to the Huntington's charity this book supports - buy here.

Ben Bartlett is widely considered one of the best coach educators in the business. He spent over 10 years as a coach educator at the FA before taking up the role of head of coaching at the Fulham Academy a year ago.

Technical problems robbed us of some minutes, but as you would expect from Ben, there is plenty of thoughtfulness in this 26 minutes to be worth a listen.

In this episode of the Coaching Youth Football podcast, we talk to Peter Prickett. Peter is author of the book 'Developing Skill: A Guide to 3v3 Soccer Coaching' and a coaching at Brentford FC.

We discuss the benefits of 3v3 games for players and coaches, and explore how we might include them in our session plans.

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Peter's book can be bought here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Developing-Skill-Guide-Soccer-Coaching/dp/1911121545

Pete Augustine is the County Coach Developer at the Surrey Football Association, and a coach at Met Police FC.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." ~ Aristotle.

In this episode, we talk about ways that coaches can get into the habit of continual improvement, and much more.

Show notes:

Follow Peter on Twitter @surrey_cdd

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Pete mentions Hive as a fantastic resource for age appropriate learning - https://thefa.hivelearning.com/thefa/

Pete mentions Ben Bartlett's site Integrity Soccer which you can find here - https://integritysoccer.co.uk/index.html

In Episode Two of the Coaching Youth Football podcast we talk to Michael Nicoll of Brentwood Youth AFC about the practice of moving players up and down within a club, and much more.

Brentwood Youth have a philosophy of 'football for all' and in this episode Michael talks about a lot of the good work that is going on at the club. Moving players between teams, both up and down, is a strategy that the club use to deliver the right level of challenge for every player.

We talked about how communication and a shared vision is so important between players, parents, club and coach, and some of the strategies Brentwood use to foster that environment.

We would love you to join the conversation on the Facebook page or Twitter thread, as this podcast is by youth coaches for youth coaches, and we can all learn more by sharing thoughts, opinions and ideas.

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The Relative Age Effect:

In this episode of the Coaching Youth Football podcast we talk to Richard King about the Relative Age Effect, and why coaches need to be aware of it when coaching youth football players.

At the end of the podcast, Richard asks a question back to you, the coach or parent of grassroots players, that I hope we will be able to discuss via our Facebook and Twitter pages.

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