Soccer HUB

Throughout my five last years of football rediscovery, there has been uncountable times where discussions or presentations reinforced the need to read the game keeping its whole complexity. However, everybody knows we can’t manage to learn nor transmit complexity at …

Over the last 10 years youth football became more mainstream. Youth-Champions League is broadcasted on the TV, we have youtube videos with highlights of each player and the whole life on the social networks. However, how many young players are …

Soccer HUB had the opportunity to talk with the National Coach Development Manager at the Football Federation of Australia, Sean Douglas, asking some questions about Soccer in Australia and his thoughts about coaching and coaching education! SH: Can you tell us …

Watching the play can end being overwhelming. Everything is moving simultaneously and so much is happening, it is difficult to remember or even to see specific things as the game rolls out. It truly feels an  ongoing avalanche of information. …

Have you ever had this conversation with a football-crazy person? Spark was on, and the excitement at its peak. He/She’d use his fingers and shake his hands hectically but nothing looked as clear as a YouTube video. In brief, you’d …

Exclusive interview with the Director of Coaching Education Products & Programs at United Soccer Coaches (USA), Ian Barker! SH: Can you tell us a bit about your path to the current point? IB: Thank you for having me. I’m currently …

Now that you know the first step of how to become a soccer coach, now I’ll tell you about the second step: look for certification. Although the certification process is very different from confederation to confederation, I will give you …

After having described, in the first article the entire process, still in a synthetic way, how you become a soccer coach, I will now focus exclusively on the step one: gain previous experience! Nobody starts building a house by the …

It  was two months ago while I was attending a Scouting Lab in Athens, when a key speaker and fellow friend with great experience in top level clubs expressed –in a bitter sense of Italian humor- the opinion that “Live …

I remember when I was a kid that playing in the street I found a soccer ball. It was full of mud, and barely could be found in the middle of the bush. I took it home, washed it, cleaned …