Whenever Juventus plays 1-4-3-3, however the players involved are following the principals of mobility and unpredictably. We see that Ronaldo has moved around from left, to the centre and to the right. In this way, the defenders in the other …

The month of August ends, the bulk of coaches will face their first day of competition soon, ending the 2019/2020 preseason, others have already done so during the month that ends. As if it were a marathon runner, they could …

Recently, Soccer HUB and AEFCA were fortunate enough to gain invaluable insight into the world of international football coaching from the Head Coach of Finland, Markku Kanerva. Kanerva has been involved in coaching at a professional level for almost two …

The ‘football/soccer analyst’: it’s a term relatively new to the game’s lexicon. In days gone by, most of a club’s forethought with regards to matchdays will have been internal, conducted almost entirely in reference to their own squad. In the …

Today’s article focuses on the mental conditioning (beliefs) that athletes condition on themselves. Those who follow sports of a regular basis, knows that it is a very common situation, many players having rituals at key moments of the game. When …

In the world of sport one of the main clichés is that “90 % of the performance comes from the mental component”. The major contradiction behind this statement is the fact that 90 % of the coaches and athletes devote …

At times, it might be tempting to view the end-game of any coach’s career to be to oversee the development of senior, elite level players. Maurizio Sarri, Gerrard Houllier, even the great Carlos Alberto Parreira: all are examples of individuals …

Me or them? What game? Mine? Theirs? The offered training must be provided by competent, effective and, above all, sensitive people. Sensitivity to understand how to make others learn and learn how to play .. but what game? A complex …

Experienced Portuguese Soccer Coach with work done in Portugal and China, Fernando Valente is currently FC Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) U21 head coach. Soccer HUB had the opportunity to ask some questions about his work and his believes about youth soccer …

Exclusive interview with Ron Schneider Truly global footballing experts are hard to come by. With this in mind, Soccer Hub was delighted to sit down with Ron Schneider, a coach with immense experience in a number of different areas of …