You brought up Armstrong! Lol!
But ok, back to soccer …!
I’m unsure as to which part of my post you are responding.
Do you mean the team pays or the athlete that pays a personal coach has the right to an opinion or what exactly?
Yes…you’re right too.
I’m not speaking in absolute manner, it’s only relative to my experience.
In Italy there are doctors that are surely opened, but imo, there is a great % of old school closed doctors.
Real life monthly calendar from one of my U18 girls:
Aug 2-5, 7-8, 10-13: Team camp, training, fitness (i.e. hell week style)
Aug 17, 19: practice
Aug 20-22: Games
Aug 24 game
Aug 26: game
Aug 28-29: games
Aug 31 training
AC Milan and Panathinaikous Training sessions wed beofre their Fri match here in Detroit.
AC Milan just got off plane 3-4 hours before, so was about a 45 minute jog and stretch in runners. Pana. had a nice finishing session for 30 minutes. Also got footage of players being stretched out.
When you see them so close, technical skills are impressive, aren’t they? You don’t have the same perception when you see them on TV.
Just talked to a coach on the college team where AC Milan practiced last week. The coach spoke with an asst. for ACM, and they spoke at length about ACM’s training philosphy. Essentially the chat went: ACM’s players can play, goal is to keep players fit and healthy, many training sessions are light in nature as a result.
all well and good when you buy ready made elite players no development into speed development / strength its just maintenance.
i had a heated discussion with the coach of my old team (newcastle jets) who said we need to train the dutch way i said ur not comparing apples with appple here they buy the best of the best we have many developing players in our squad who need the grounding and base work. he disagreed and hence i have now moved to new zealand and working for the wellington phoenix…
we had a first round bye and friday night is opening night for us bring it on been a long pre season with a win over boca juniors and i cant wait if ur a betting man get on us early. 
On the senior level yes.
But the old Ajax youth approach (I’m not familiar with the most recent work they do) was very good for skill development and tactical development also.
Exactly. There is difference from developing player and their stage of development and the elite professional.
Nobody wants to move away from AC Milan. Light training, wonderful, amazing facilities, good money, a family environment.
got an interesting email from a friend back in australia the local weekly football program called foxsports fc criticised my old coach for not having a S&C coach and for thinking he can do the job himself.
last week friday night away game / saturday no recovery fly home 90 mins then 3hr bus trip / sunday off / 1st session back agilty change of direction first up…resulting in a 3cm tear to the calf of the young striker out 4-6 weeks at best.
Hence poor results.
People keep talking about Ajax?.
Ajax have won nothing for over a decade in soccer.
Hence why I said the ‘old’ Ajax
Watched Arsenal play this morning and interesting to hear announcer say Samir Nasri credits his performance so far to an off-season where he did not play any soccer.
Doesn’t surprise me in the least. Many team sport coaches are mistakenly attached/addicted to overt volumes of off-season technical-tactical work.
It is fear based. …if we do it and lose it’s ok because that’s what everyone else does and you win some and lose some but if we don’t do it and lose then someone’s getting fired because we didn’t do what everyone else did
Along those lines, I’ve actually developed what I believe to be a quote worthy statement that will go down in sports training history; however, I’m waiting to put in into print before I share it openly.
Needs to be kept in perspective. First, it might have been reference to the fact that he got to rest while others played in the World Cup, as he wasn’t selected for France.
And footballers don’t play football in the off season, they go on holidays. They get about four weeks on average, and it’s the only block of time they get off.
In other words, due to the never ending amount of fixtures that international footballers have, he didn’t get picked for his country and got a four week break to rest.
He’s also playing in a different position. Most probable reason.
thanks for the feedback and excellent perspective.
imo rest in sport at almost all levels is not understood or practiced.
why I am not certain but so many are confused about the simple concept of how you feel versus hard work.
thanks for the feedback and excellent perspective.
imo rest in sport at almost all levels is not understood or practiced.
why I am not certain but so many are confused about the simple concept of how you feel versus hard work.