How to build a Playing Philosophy in Soccer?

Jul

Teacher Oliver Gage
Categories Coaching, Soccer Analysis
Students 163 (Registered)
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(4 Reviews)

ONLINE COURSE: How to build a Playing Philosophy in Soccer?

One of the key factors in the team and player development is to have a clear and well-defined club philosophy and to reinforce this philosophy with video feedback, data analysis and a pre-defined set of expirations on a team and individual level.

This course will provide you insights into why it’s important to have a playing philosophy and demonstrate how one can be built and reinforced. Using videos and examples from professional teams around the world, this course will teach you how to do this with your team or club no matter what resources you have available.

This course includes:

Introduction to playing philosophies and why they are important
Examples of playing philosophies
Case study – Red Bull Football Group
Building your own playing philosophy
Building a match analysis process
Feedback from match analysis and philosophy reinforcement

Course Content

Total learning: 20 lessons Time: 20 weeks

Why Do We Need A Playing Philosophy 0/8
- Lecture1.1
  
  Presentation Intro 01 min Preview
- Lecture1.2
  
  Importance of Philosophy 11 min
- Lecture1.3
  
  Other Clubs – Intro 03 min
- Lecture1.4
  
  Bournemouth 01 min
- Lecture1.5
  
  Brighton 02 min
- Lecture1.6
  
  Philadelphia Union 02 min
- Lecture1.7
  
  Man City 03 min
- Lecture1.8
  
  Man City explanation 02 min
Example Philosophy - Red Bull Football Group 0/2
- Lecture2.1
  
  Intro 04 min
- Lecture2.2
  
  NYRB Philosophy example 04 min
What Makes up a Playing Philosophy 0/1
- Lecture3.1
  
  Whay maked up a Philosophy? 07 min
Why Measurements are important 0/5
- Lecture4.1
  
  Measuring Philosophy 1 05 min
- Lecture4.2
  
  Measuring Philosophy 2 02 min
- Lecture4.3
  
  How reliable is your memory? 05 min
- Lecture4.4
  
  Rasmus – FC Midtjylland 02 min
- Lecture4.5
  
  New England MLS – Why use data? 03 min
Building a post game report 0/1
- Lecture5.1
  
  Post game report 05 min
Feedback to players 0/2
- Lecture6.1
  
  Making better decisions based on Philosophy 05 min
- Lecture6.2
  
  Importance of Analysis – Derby County 02 min
Concluding 0/1
- Lecture7.1
  
  End 01 min

Instructor

Oliver Gage

Oliver Gage is currently the Director of Football at the Canadian Premier League. Previously, Oliver worked with Houston Dynamo in MLS, winning the US Open Cup Championship in 2018, as well as appearing in the 2017 Western Conference Championship Final. Oliver was responsible for pre and post-game analysis alongside technical player recruitment. In Oliver’s time with Houston, the club grew a reputation for finding undervalued, young talent from South and Central America, and regularly competed for silverware, despite having the league’s lowest budget. Oliver has also worked at the University of Virginia and won an NCAA Division 1 National Championship, and Sheffield Wednesday FC, in the English Championship.

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Keithevans94

Keith Evans

Very well presented really took some ideas to use for my club and school
odossantos6

odossantos6

amazing course and very much appreciated. Thanks!
Elshaday Bekema

Elshaday Bekema

Important and Useful Course for Coaches and Analyst who believes in having philosophy and want to make real progress through Evaluation .
Alex Mihas

Alex

Phenomenal course by Oliver! Oliver takes a high level approach to discuss not only the importance of creating a philosophy to build around but giving you the building blocks on how to implement and measure this philosophy over the long term with your team club. After this course I feel far better prepared to all my processes as a coach, from giving feedback to players, how I analyze our performance after a match and as well as how to determine if we were successful in our goals or not. Looking forward to more material from Oliver!