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James McAloon is a Football Coach and Academy Director who has worked across the globe having held roles in the UK, South Korea, Vietnam and Bangladesh. Where most aspiring football coaches work their way through lower level teams to eventually become the head coach of a professional football club, what’s most fascinating about James' journey is he hasn’t taken the most convectional pathway to coaching. After not having opportunities present itself with established clubs James went on to create his own football academies and clubs in different parts of Asia. This is a story of someone who started his career in Law and then went on to be proactive in creating his own path into football coaching by not accepting the pre determined paths and simply creating his own successful and sustainable path into a career of his dreams in high performance sport. 


Highlights from the episode…

• How James went from finishing a law degree into his joinery into football.
• After finishing his degree, unlike most who graduated from Law, James moved to South Korea.
• Having seen inefficiencies with youth football in Korea, James went on to start his own football academy.
• James speaks on the value of having a personality of being helpful and how that can open up opportunities.
• After his stint in Korea James moved back to the UK to step back into a cooperate career. 
• A few years back in the “rat race” of cooperate life. James decided to return to his passion of football and dive full time into his football academy back in Korea.
• After Korea James moved to Vietnam and eventually open a second football academy in Ho Chi Minh City as well revitalize an existing club.
• We speak at length on, despite if opportunities don’t arise through the regular pathways simply carve out your own path.
• The importance of networking and how this led to a professional coaching role in the Bangladesh Premier League. 
• James sheds light on the cost of working in the high performance sports industry.
• Some key attributes of being succeeding in this industry such as being adaptable, immensely curious and being ok with uncomfortably, to only name a few.

 

People mentioned: 

• Sean Lane: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-lane-688b4522/

 

 James McAloon contact details:

•  Website: https://jamesmcaloon.com/
•  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmcaloon/?originalSubdomain=vn
•  Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpmcaloon?lang=en

Host: Luis Resa

Contact me on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-resa-a975196b/
• Email: [email protected]

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