Soccer HUB

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 …

Throughout my professional career, I have had the opportunity to be close to hundreds, or even thousands, of Soccer Coaches. Coaches that reached the success they ambitioned, at different levels, and even some top coaches such as Leonardo Jardim, Rui …

The career of a high-level athlete in most sports ends before the age of 40. In the vast majority of professional activities when we are in the early twenties, this is an experimentation stage. We are at the beginning of …