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Associate professor of football + researcher @nih_sognsvann Uefa A Coach https://t.co/ZDQIdzApFQ
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Jan 7 16 tweets 3 min read
1. Coach education faces the challenge of balancing theory with the practical realities of teaching and learning. With new ways of understanding coaching, we need to broaden our ways of educating and developing coaches @Chris_Thue
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 2. As coach education increasingly aligns with top-down policy interventions favouring standardisation and homogenisation (sold as best practice) regardless of context, there is a risk of losing the pedagogical essence of coaching.
Jan 15, 2024 17 tweets 4 min read
1. Our article “There is no copy and paste… Integrating a contemporary player development framework in football ” recently came out in @JSportsSci @CarlWoods25 @JimiVaughan Keith Davids-cameo by @Fannberg + @stirling_j @Jozsef_Bozsik @sidlowe @jonawils tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 2. Socio-cultural factors (constraints) influence practices in ways that differ from context to context, as societies influence, define and engage in sport in varying ways.
Nov 30, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
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1. Debatten om (den så kallade) krisen i svensk fotboll är helt klart i kris när denna pågående neuromyt om den ’gyllene åldern (guldåren) för att lära sig teknik återkommer.
2. Detta är naturligtvis bara ytterligare ett sätt att upprätthålla en coach-centrerad" pedagogik som prioriterar en mekanistisk och reduktionistisk syn på lärande
Sep 2, 2023 16 tweets 4 min read
1. This resonates with the work that @JimiVaughan and I have done. Deep cultural tendencies in (youth)football to copy-paste has arguably led to the emergence of a type of methodological imperialism, a globalised copy-paste methodology. (see translation)
Image 2. Juanma highlights one of our central arguments- player development frameworks should evolve in, interaction with the socio-cultural context in which individuals are embedded- there is no copy and paste template. This is clear when he mentions the..
Oct 15, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
A thread in English. extra training Fridays with 2011 group.50-70 boys and girls turn up - their own motivation. The pedagogy has evolved in interaction with our own socio-cultural context. The young players "drive" training. Their engagement is central. If you want to start with more simplified (not decomposed ) tasks, when manipulating constraints keep the skill whole, but scaling it down, reducing the size/, spacing, equipment etc.
Here are 2 examples from this weeks extra training
Oct 15, 2022 11 tweets 4 min read
A thread in English. I love extra training Fridays with 2011 group.50-70 boys and girls turn up - their own motivation. The pedagogy has evolved in interaction with our own socio-cultural context. The young players "drive" training. Their engagement is central. If you want to start with more simplified (not decomposed ) tasks, when manipulating constraints keep the skill whole, but scaling it down, reducing the size/, spacing, equipment etc.
Here are 2 examples from this weeks extra training
Oct 15, 2022 18 tweets 5 min read
A thread-fredagar @aikungfotboll extraträning med 2011 års grupp.Varje vecka 50-70 killar och tjejer- drivs av egen motivation.Pedagogiken har utvecklats i samverkan med vår egen sociokulturella kontext (NO COPY and PASTE).Spelarna "driva" träning. Deras engagemang är centralt! Om du vill börja med mer förenklade (INTE nedbrutna) uppgifter, när du manipulera constraints, håller färdigheten hel, men skalar ner den, minskar storleken/ytan, avstånden, utrustningen etc.
Här är 2 exempel från veckans extra träning
May 12, 2022 15 tweets 4 min read
1/14 Building on @JimiVaughan excellent recent thread

we can now look at how these ideas are designed “IN” to our training sessions. 2/14 It is helpful here to differentiated between what Gibson (1966) referred to as ‘knowledge of’ and ‘knowledge about’ the environment. Both knowledge ‘types’ (in)directly influence perception
Nov 9, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
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Nov 1, 2020 20 tweets 5 min read
With regard to this discussion - thread to follow
There are many social norms and organisational pressures present within the facets of professional football that impinge on child youth football, which I believe the FAI are helping to perpetuate .