Mark O'Sullivan PhD
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Associate professor of football + researcher @nih_sognsvann Uefa A Coach
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1. There is an ideology driving a system where players are being forced to prioritize short-term performance over long-term well being."-its taking over child-youth football as well
I got to contribute to this article in Reuters by
@Ewingsports
"There's lots of serious questions around the erosion of player agency and the long-term impact of players being forced to prioritize short-term performance over long-term well being."
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When coaching 8 year olds what is important.? To never forget that they are 8!
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Suggestions for 2019. Lets stop using the words 'elite', 'talent' and 'a product of ..'(kids are not products) in connection to kids football. They are used as a sales pitch and shameless self promotion. Remove these words and see what happens to the culture over time
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A fine ambassador for Ireland and Irish Soccer.
@zack_elbo11
visits
@aikungfotboll
9 and 10 year olds training tonight. He met with over 40 kids tonight and stayed for the whole session
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Amazing tifo by AIK football fans. First game of the season and over 38,000 in attendance.
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Extraträning yesterday
@aikungfotboll
our 2011/2012 players loved this simple design inspired by Swedish national team GK coach
@elfvendal
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PhD over the line.Thanks
@jeancote46
@PeteOlusoga
for a rigorous+professional examination-review process. It wouldn't have been possible without the support of my supervisors
@jameslrumbold
and Keith Davids. Special thanks
@DHrtin
@JimiVaughan
@CarlWoods25
@sheffhallamuni
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Why an early selection can make you look stupid. In Iceland we take decision regarding elite selection very late. All players get the same coaching until 15/16 years old.
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Designing a Learning Space- Football Interactions, Linking theory and practice
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Janne Andersson the manager of the Swedish national team helps clean the dressing room after they have just qualified for the WC by knocking out Italy.
#humility
#sweepthesheds
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Delighted to see this published. Research paper I did with Keith Davids and researchers from state Uni of Rio-manipulating task constraints in small-sided and conditioned games shapes emergence of individual and collective tactical behaviours in football: A systematic review
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For those of you claiming you can spot talent in young kids and promote early selection on this basis "Steph Curry isn’t a remarkable athlete. He isn’t super fast. He doesn’t handle the ball or pass very well to stand out "
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Erling Halland – As Many as Possible, as Long as Possible, as Good as Possible - An evidence based investigation
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A Constraints Led Approach is NOT just another Game Centred Approach
Some common misinterpretations and some practical examples
@MSAIreland
@DrSkillAcq
@ollylogo
@murraykevin13
@KieranShannon7
@AlanDunton
@finnegan_laura
@movementcoachkm
@CoachAndInspire
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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
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Instead of offering preprogrammed task solutions, can you design an environment to encourage olayers to find individualised solutions for a performance problem - 8 year olds (fake pass) -
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Zlatan said he is a lion and lions heal faster than humans. Swedish media checked this out with Stockholm Zoo. The reply was that Lions do not recover from injury faster than humans but Baboons do"
@StevieGrainger
@josephsbcn
@delzer
@emmetmalone
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@martynziegler
Sweden didn't bow to fan power. Career politicians that have infiltrated Swedish football had to reluctantly bow to the Swedish democratic club membership model where fans have a voice. A great victory for the last outpost.
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My son Sam made his deubut as an 8 year old for Sweden tonight in their match against Azerbajdzjan
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“If you tell players to make a decision before they receive the ball and they do this, then they are playing in the past not the present, and most certainly not the future” (
@markstkhlm
and
@aksumfootball
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Lamine Yamal and the shadow of Bojan Krkic- "So far, so good"
We have created the conditions for this, we have thrown him into this world, let’s be kind to him.
"It's not how you fall that matters. It's how you land"
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When I was a young boy and we had to pass from one cone to another in training. It was so boring. We used to say: “Coach, when are we going to play a game?” “make your players love the game.” After that, you can help them learn the game.
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Coaches in Croatia encouraged for decades to encourage individuality so long as the decision making has been correct.Never focus soley on one learning outcome,focus on decision making +selection of skill set for each scenario.
#footballinteractions
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Birth distribution for players taking part in U17 Euros
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Towards a player - environment centred approach (some theory and practice)
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If a club is claiming to be experts at early talent ID and you do some research and you see this, then what does it say about what they are actually identifying in young children?
U7: 10 of 15 - from Q1 and 2;
U8: 13 of 15 - from Q1 and 2;
U9: 11 of 15 - from Q1 and 2;
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Something for data analysts in football to consider. There is no context in data.
"it is evident that space is not the same if the player between the lines is Messi or someone else."
The big challenge will no longer be in analysis, but in methodology!
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Instead of offering preprogrammed task solutions, can you design an environment to encourage olayers to find individualised solutions for a performance problem - 8 year olds
@CarlWoods25
@Whyatt
@BritainMThomas
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There is no ‘copy n paste’ template - Dev systems inherent problems related to the prediction of the future- Write your own story?
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In coach education I often hear that person X should be the head educator for course Y, as person X has many years experience. This is a fundamental in many football education systems run by NGBs. Experience is NOT the mere passage of time!
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Delighted that this is now published.
Theory to practice in high performance sport - a collaboration with
@CarlWoods25
@IanMackers
@Robertson_SJ
and Keith Davids - the work at AFL club Port Adelaide FC in Australia and our work in R&D
@aikungfotboll
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Delighted to see this published on the International Journal of sports science and coaching. Another Theory to practice paper with
@CarlWoods25
@JimiVaughan
Keith Davids. Open access!
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Extra training
@aikungfotboll
with boys/girls born 2011 and 2010. Over 100 kids turned up. Environmental constraints- limited pitch space and access to goals. Video of 2011 (random mix group) start activity with design attached-exploit/delay temp 2v1/3v2
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The responsibility of a child’s first coach is pure and simple - inspire them to play independently of you.
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Delighted to see this published on the International Journal of sports science and coaching. Another Theory to practice paper with
@CarlWoods25
@JimiVaughan
Keith David’s
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I am gutted that the Euros will not be on this summer. I had a generic book written on coaching youth Soccer and was waiting to see which country inpressed the most before I designed the cover.
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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)
Confidente tático de Pep desde os tempos de México, o hoje auxiliar Juanma Lillo é uma mente fascinante. Durante a Copa, escreveu no
@TheAthleticFC
que sente-se um pai arrependido ao ver excessos no padrão que ajudou a desenvolver. Hoje tive a oportunidade de perguntá-lo por quê.
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Study in Italian Youth football national teams and transition to senior.
Just published. Another one on talent, this time in Football
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A great ambassador for
@aikfotboll
and Irish football
@zack_elbo11
took time out today to hang out with the young players attending
@aikungfotboll
summer camp at Skytteholmen today.
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Great paper on Talent Identification involving coaches within the Swedish Football Association’s talent organisation program - talent identification is guided by what feels “right in the heart and stomach”;
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Investigating the concept of Physical Literacy - Despite lacking direct empirical evidence, many involved in youth sports programming, policy making and physical education are rallying around physical literacy and promoting it globally.
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New paper published with some leaders in the field- We discuss how adopting an ecological dynamics approach to practice design reframes learning and performing as symbiotic processes - free download
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Any parent, coach, policy maker interested or involved in youth sport might find this useful
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Is it time for better question with regard to the learner and the learning process in youth sport?
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Notes from our
@MSAIreland
webinar on the ongoing work at AIK youth football. Research, learning in development, pedagogy and practice
@jasondevos
@KrisVDHaegen
@JvanderB78
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The race to the bottom is gaining momentum. 2-4 year olds. Scouts will be in attendance but please parents please understand that they are only at the recruitment stage!!!
@stu_arm
@nlevett
@DrJoeStone
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Published today!!! Our research article on Ice hockey legend Pavel ”The Magic Man” Datsyuk. ”Where do these skills come from?”. Great to collaborate with
@vladbspm
and Cliff Mallet.
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How will the 2 year ban effect the U5 Elite academy team?
@nlevett
@ground_guru
@stu_arm
@Salisburyrovers
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I heard Swedish men’s national team coach Janne Andersson give a talk last week. How he emphasises relationships and creating opportunities for interactions between people was excellent. I wish there were more youth coaches present.
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Published today- Open access. The research framework we use
@aikungfotboll
- Great to work with
@JimiVaughan
@jameslrumbold
and Keith Davids.
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5 unscientific methods some sports coaches use. Actions types, learning styles etc etc -
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We may know what we are looking FOR but do we understand what we are looking AT?
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Tomorrow 1st Jan 2020 the UN Convention on the rights of the child will enter in to law and therefore sport law in Sweden. Its complex, its worth discussing, it will take bravery and definitely worth pursuing
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The best youth coaches create an environment where young players learn to understand they will never stop learning what they can do with their skill
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Learning skills is not a process of repeating a solution, it is repeating the process of finding a solution.
@skillacq
(c)
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Introducing the Learning in Development Research Framework for Sports Organizations
There is no copy-paste template, athlete development frameworks should evolve in, interaction with the sociocultural context in which individuals are embedded.
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New paper published today with
@JimiVaughan
@jameslrumbold
Keith Davids. Sticky constraints on coaching, player development+coach education.There is no copy paste template.Development frameworks should evolve in, interaction with the sociocultural context
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Is the silence of a coach observing young players during training really that uncomfortable for some people?
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The long-term outcomes of positive youth development have been framed as performance, participation, and personal development (Côté, Strachan, & Fraser-Thomas, 2008).
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This piece is worth a read. Especially investigations in to talent development and academies. only 1 in 10 of top transfers came to academy before 15
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Marco van Basten- Coaching behaviours that value limiting unpredictability, prioritise structure over function are discussed in our paper that digs in to the copy-paste culture in coaching and education that is heading towards a methodological imperialism
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
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US youth soccer is an expensive playground, and the number of players is stagnant or even dropping.
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@JvanderB78
@talkSPORT
If you don’t have a crystal ball then why create a system where you act like you do ? 😄
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A blog on our recently publish paper on developing a contemporary player learning in development framework. Also included are 2 playlist for your enjoyment. ;-)
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A lot of discussion about Bayern Munich’s decision to remove itheur early selection model. This discussion is happening and being practiced even in the Dutch FA Canada FA. As many as possible as long as possible as good as possible
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I have been in contact with many people in football around the world recently and I feel there is an exciting evolution taking place. Many are, AT LAST, rebelling against the tyranny of the globalisation of coach education (as run by administrators)- Fast food coach education
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As many as possible, as long as possible - Sport organizations and clubs should, therefore, be careful to not build systems that reduce individuals’ opportunities for long-term engagement and/or personal development
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Brilliant brilliant from
@DrSkillAcq
Holds for all levels of coach - individual interactions, even our youungest.
Dr Ed Coughlan on coaching👇
🗣"There is absolutely no one size fits all...Yet we still peddle this idea of a mass coaching approach, selling systems to people saying 'if everyone does this' expecting this linear relationship of doing one thing and expecting a definitive outcome"
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Nobody can predict the future. Early Talent ID full of self serving liars +bullshitters frauding kids and parents
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Skills unfold in context, within tasks. There is literally no such thing as a ‘skill’ independent of context. There can’t be, because (inter)action is what happens when perception of current task demands (context) shapes behaviour. - by
@PsychScientists
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The Quiet Revolution and its Evolution.
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to Become Law in Swedish Sport on January 1st 2020
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There is no copy and paste template. Reflections on the recent Swedish football player development debate
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Learning skills is not the process of repeating a solution, it is repeating the process of finding a solution
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"I have never seen a player in a team sport standing still, waiting for an acoustic stimulus to run in a straight line without anybody bothering him" (Seirul·lo, in Palomo, 2012).
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The best youth coaches look to create an environment where young players learn to understand that they will never stop learning what they can do with their skill.
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Excellent piece by
@ben__franks1
Delves in to the many misinterpretations of A Constraints Led Approach that can be seen in governing body coach education. Some good clarity here
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Use a model of learning to drive what you are doing with basic learning principles to guide practice
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Influential Swedish World Cup player Emil Forsberg on Growing up on a street of sport. "These days there is a far too early focus on only playing football.""Leave children be children, be free and again it is very import that they have fun.
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Doing some research for my presentation for next weeks Hockey conference in Toronto . Looking forward to catching up with the inspiring NHL coach
@thebod43
again
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Coaching the emergence of Football Interactions (Linking practice to theory)
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If you tell players to make a decision before they receive the ball and they do this, then they are playing in the past not the future.
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Shaping skilled intentions. Designing in opportunities that shine a light on playing round or through without removing the possibility to play over. 8 year olds random group - developing functional (not fundamental ) skills ‘in’ the game
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Skill is not a property of the mind. Nor is it a property of the body. If we are going to understand how people learn skills, we need to widen our focus to take in the total field of relations made up of the whole learner and the whole space for learning. (Bailey, Pickard; 2010)
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The race to the bottom. Don’t be blinded by unicorns and survivors and misled by economic forces
🗣️ "To be the best football player in the world."
7-year-old
#LFC
Academy player Arat Hosseini is being called the next Lionel Messi 👀👇
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“because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child. Nature does not disdain what only lives for a day. It pours the whole of life into each moment. Life’s bounty is in its flow. Later is too late.” Alexander Herzen
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There is no copy and paste template. Athlete development frameworks should evolve in interaction with the sociocultural context in which individualls are embedded. Open acces paper - free to download
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I have already booked in a Croatian tactical periodisation expert who has a generic development plan for developing unique individuals and it will he published in an e Book 😁
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Explicit top down game models being introduced earlier and earlier, where the coach gets the kids to practice predetermined passing patterns that they regurgitate in games. Are children therefore only learning a model of the game as opposed to the game?
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