In Episode 13, we speak to William Vazquez, former Central Coast Mariners U20s coach and Youth League Assistant Coach. Will discusses the importance of developing relationships with players, patterns of play vs decision making, the process of p

E12S01 Jess Ibrom

Nov 14th, 2018 58m 46s

In Episode 12, we speak to Jess Ibrom, UEFA A Licensed Coach who has 19 years experience as an Elite Youth Developer, National Coach and High Performance Coach. His roles have taken him from working in his homeland the UK, to the United States,

E11S01 Mark O'Sullivan AIK Stockholm Youth Coach

Oct 31st, 2018 59m 44s

In Episode 11, we speak to Mark O’Sullivan (@markstkhlm), youth coach at AIK Stockholm in Sweden. Mark is a coach educator, a consultant, completing a PhD and founder of the footblogball blog. Mark chats about designing learning spaces from an

E10S1 Danny Beauchamp Northside Futsal

Oct 17th, 2018 51m 55s

We chat to Danny Beauchamp, Technical Director of Women's at Northside Futsal Club. Danny discusses the benefits of futsal, challenges in developing the game and why some football coaches tell players not to play futsal.

E09S1 Germán Cabrera_G10 Fitness & Futbol

Oct 4th, 2018 36m 54s

We chat to Germán Cabrera, a former professional player, who now runs G10 Fitness & Futbol, where he provides elite performance training for youth, semi-professional and professional players. In episode 9, Germán discusses his journey as a play

E08S01 Kory Babington

Sep 12th, 2018 34m 6s

We chat to Kory Babington, Director of Football at the famous Westfields Sports High and former Assistant Coach for Western Sydney Wanderers Academy National Youth League team. We talk to Kory about the High Performance Pilot Program run with F

S1E07 Jordi Fernandez Barça Academy Technical Director Sydney

Aug 29th, 2018 1h 8m

In Episode 7, we chat to Jordi Fernandez, who is the Technical Director or Project Director of the Barca Academy Sydney. Jordi discusses his ideas on self organised learning, developing a style of play, technique and how it can be trained, winn

S01E06 Drew Taylor

Aug 15th, 2018 55m 58s

We speak to North Shore Mariners WPL Head of Performance Phase and 1st Grade Head Coach Drew Taylor. We chat to Drew about his master of education research study on the effects of multi-task and cognitive effort training on decision making. We

S01E05 Dave Mitchell Former Socceroo and A-League Coach

Aug 1st, 2018 1h 7m

We speak to Dave Mitchell, a former Socceroo and A-League Coach. Dave discusses sacrifices he made to get to the Professional level, issues you have to deal with coaching at the professional level in dealing with players and the man management

S01E04 Gregory Halle Petoit_GameShaping

Jul 18th, 2018 51m 15s

In this episode we talk to founder of GameShaping, Grégory Hallé Petiot. We talk about the importance of playing games in training, the value of context, how tactics are influenced by the individual and their understanding of the game and that

ES03S1 Ehsan Popal Co-Founder of T3 Australia

Apr 5th, 2018 35m 59s

We talk to Co-Founder of T3 Australia, Ehsan Popal about Grassroots Football. Ehsan discusses how football development starts at home, engaging parents to help with this journey, T3 and their relationship with Tom Byer, as well as developing a

ES03S1 Ehsan Popal Co-Founder of T3 Australia

Apr 5th, 2018 35m 59s

ES02S1 Ed Ferguson Northern Suburbs FA

Apr 5th, 2018 36m 41s

In episode 2, we speak to Ed Ferguson, Community Football Manager at Northern Suburbs FA (NSFA) and U15s Head Coach at Northern Tigers FC. Ed discusses the importance of grassroots football, some of the initiatives NSFA are implementing to impr

E01S1 FCBarcelona Coaches Isaac Guerrero and Jordi Fernandez

Jan 25th, 2018 30m 37s

We chat to Isaac Guerrero, Technical Director of the FCBarcelona Football School in Barcelona and Jordi Fernandez, Technical Director of the FCBarcelona Football School in Sydney, Australia for Episode 1 of the Functional Football Podcast.

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