The FDS Podcast

Professional Academy coaches, recruitment staff and scouts often talk about 'good movers', but what does that mean?

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With the topical discussions about body language and reactions on the pitch Scott and Kristian discuss this briefly and how it can affect the team. This is also from a coach point of view as well. There are lots of disappointments in football, how you react and deal with them is important.

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In this episode Gemma and Kristian explain the events that we run in school holidays for Development Centre players. This is a valuable part of the FDS programme

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This episode is with Kristian and Gemma and they are discussing and answering questions about the U11 Eurocup. This was Gemma's first German indoor tournament was it was good to hear her take on what it is like

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'What players have you worked with?' 'Any good players coming through?' these are the 2 most common questions we are asked by people when we start to explain FDS and the goals we have. This episode talks about young pro's, established pro's and youth team level players at big clubs in England and their journey with FDS and beyond

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In this episode we discuss what a busy start to 2023 that we have had. Camps in Finland, tournaments across Europe and the challenges of the cold weather with the development centre and shadow squad programme in England.

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This episode explains the philosophy of our Development Centre programme. We explain why we work on 'Master the Ball, Master the Game' in these sessions and why this in our opinion is the most important area to focus on. With over 20 years experience in running this kind of programme, we are pretty pleased with how we have explained this hence THE BEST FDS PODCAST YET (we can't say that for all of them, but we are getting there!)

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We couldn't think of a better title! In this episode we discuss some common questions we are asked about FDS

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In this episode we discuss the reasons and aims for the fixture programme we have with Development Centres and also the Shadow Squad

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This a Podcast discussion with Kian Robben, a young Dutch work experience student who spent the week with FDS. We discuss football, school among other things.

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