The Coaching Badges Podcast

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join myself Mark and some very special guests for our first ever live Pod. Thanks to everyone at the brilliant St. Josephs Football Club, Dublin, Ireland for allowing us to be part of your amazing Coach Education event. Continued success to everyone associated with the club. Forward to the goal! Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Check out the latest podcast episode as myself and Mark chat to the amazing Cody Royle about his work coaching head coaches. Along with the usual news and war chest items, there's sure to be something for coaches of all levels out there. We hope you enjoy the show.Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Check out the latest podcast episode as we chat to Player Stat Data CEO, Colin Brett and former professional footballer, David Connolly. Along with the usual news and war chest items, there's sure to be something for coaches of all levels out there. Enjoy!Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Drop us a text. We'd love to hear from you Join myself and Mark for the fifth episode of season 5, as we chat about all things coaching with some of the brilliant Sunday Share crew. Along with the usual news and warchest items, we hope you get something to help you along your coaching journey. Thanks as always to our great friends at PlayerStatData for the continuing support. Support the Show.When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for the fourth installment of season 5, as we chat about what it's like to be a professional footballer with Motherwell's, Irish born, Dan Casey. Along with the usual news and warchest items, we hope you get something to add to your coaching back pack. Thanks as always to our great friends at PlayerStatData for the continuing support. Support the Show.When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Subscriber-only episodeJoin the squad as we once again chat about a variety of different coaching topics and challenges. Learn from coaches of all ages, qualifications and experience as we discuss and debate aspects of the coaching journey. We hope you enjoy folks. Subscribe for access:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1438651/subscribe When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for the third installment of season 5, as we talk performance psychology with the vastly experienced Alex Auerbach. Along with the usual news and warchest items, we hope you get something to add to your coaching back pack. Thanks as always to our great friends at PlayerStatData for the continuing support. Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Subscriber-only episodeJoin the squad as we chat about a variety of different coaching topics and challenges. Learn from coaches of all ages, qualifications and experience as we discuss and debate aspects of the coaching journey. We hope you enjoy folks. Subscribe for access:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1438651/subscribe When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Subscriber-only episodeJoin the squad as we chat about a variety of different coaching topics and challenges. Learn from coaches of all ages, qualifications and experience as we discuss and debate aspects of the coaching journey. We hope you enjoy folks. Subscribe for access: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1438651/subscribe When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for the second installment of season 5, as we talk performance nutrition with the incredible Dana Lis from the Golden State Warriors. Along with the usual news and warchest items, we hope you get some coaching nuggets to add to your armoury. Thanks as always to our great friends at PlayerStatData for the continuing support. Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for the season 5 kick off, as we talk all things sport psycholgy with the awesome Dr. Olivia Hurley. Along with the usual news and warchest items, we hope you get some coaching nuggets to add to your armoury. Thanks as always to our great friends at PlayerStatData for the continuing support. Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Subscriber-only episodeJoin the squad as we chat about all things relating to Defending. Learn from coaches of all ages, qualifications and experience as we discuss and debate aspects of the coaching journey. We hope you enjoy folks. Subscribe for access: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1438651/subscribe When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for the last episode in the current season of the Coaching Badges Podcast where we talk to David Sharkey (The Great White Sharkey) about how we can help the teams and organisations that we work with to improve by using themes in our coaching . Along with the other usual news and warchest items, there's something of interest for all of you coaches out there. Thanks for all of your continued support this year, see you in 2024 for Season 5! Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Subscriber-only episodeJoin the squad as we chat about all things relating to Attacking. Learn from coaches of all ages, qualifications and experience as we discuss and debate aspects of the coaching journey. We hope you enjoy folks. Subscribe for access: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1438651/subscribe When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for the latest episode of the Coaching Badges Podcast where we talk to vision development specialist Zoe Wimshurst about how we can help the athletes that we work with to improve their vision and on field performance. Along with the other usual news and warchest items, there's bound to be something of interest for all of you coaches out there. Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join me and Mark for another pod episode filled with news, interviews and Warchest recommendations in the latest episode of the Coaching Badges Podcast. Dublin GAA legend Philly McMahon offers valuable lessons from his sporting life aswell as discussing his brilliant social programme work. It's a cracker of a show.Support the showSupport the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Subscriber-only episodeJoin the squad as we chat about all things relating to Session Planning. Learn from coaches of all ages, qualifications and experience as we discuss and debate aspects of the coaching journey. We hope you enjoy folks. Subscribe for access: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1438651/subscribe When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Subscriber-only episodeJoin the squad as we chat about starting out as a coach. Learn from coaches of all ages, qualifications and experience as we discuss and debate the start of the coaching journey. We hope you enjoy folks. Subscribe for access: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1438651/subscribe When it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for another episode filled with news, guest interviews and Warchest recommendations in the latest episode of the Coaching Badges Podcast. Peter Prickett (aka the bearded coach) offers some brilliant insights into how we can utilise 3v3 methods to maximise helping our players on their development journeys. We hope you enjoy the show.Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for another dose of news, guest banter and Warchest recommendations in the latest episode of the Coaching Badges Podcast. Gordon Maclelland from Working With Parents In Sport offers some brilliant insights into how we can all be better as both parents and coaches in helping our players on their development journeys. We hope you enjoy the interview.Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for another episode of the Coaching Badges podcast. Along with the usual news and warchest items, we have a brilliantly open and honest chat with Brian McDermott about his own personal football and life journey. We hope you enjoy the chat as much as we did.Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for a briliant chat relating to world class performance, with Irish boxer Michael Conlan. Along with the usual news and war chest items, there's sure to be something for everyone to enjoy. Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself & Mark for an amazing chat with the legendary Martin O'Neill. His unique insights from his experience as both a top professional player and manager perspective are as entertaining as they are insightful. Along with the news from weeks gone by & Mark's warchest recommendations, it really is a memorable episode.  Enjoy folksSupport the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself and Mark for episode 2 of the current fourth season as we spend some time chatting with the brilliant Simon Hartley. Teamwork is the theme of the day and we really learned so much from this chat. Along with the usual news review and warchest recommendations, there's sure to be something for coaches of all levels.Support the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Join myself & Mark as we kick off season 4 with a brilliant chat with Harry Watling, former QPR & current Rangers 1st team coach. Harry has had a fascinating coaching journey to date & has worked at academy level & professional first team level as both coach & manager. He's a great bloke into the bargain. Along with the news from weeks gone by & Mark's warchest recommendations, it really is a cracking way to kick off the new season. Enjoy folksSupport the showWhen it comes to Coaching, there's no right or wrong way, but there's always a better way

Merry christmas to all of our wonderful followers from myself & Mark. A special bonus episode to finally close out season 3 & one for the coaching nerds. A detailed chat about implementing a formation with your staff & players using the 14231 formation as an example. We hope you enjoy listening in. See you in the new year! 

Join myself & Mark on this episode for an insightful chat with the wonderful Ally Maloney, as she talks about her life & vast experience as a physio in the world of football. Along with some great news from the recent weeks gone by & some superb recommendations in Mark's warchest, we close out season three in style. Merry Christmas & hope to see you in the new year!

Join myself & Mark for a brilliant chat with Irish swimming star, Finn McGeever, as he talks about all things swimming & his life as a high performance olympic athlete. Along with some news from the recent weeks gone by & some great recommendations in Mark's warchest, we hope you enjoy the show. P.S. you'll go a long way before you hear a more random dream 5 a side team than Finns !!

Join us for the real episode 8, an entertaing chat with the wonderful Thomas Gronnemark, as he talks about his pretty unique career as a specialist throw in coaching, motivational speaker & author. Along with the recent sporting news & Mark's War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode. 

Join us for an entertaing chat with the wonderful Steve Sallis, as he talks about his distinguisged career in teaching, coaching & people development. Along with the recent sporting news & Mark's War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode. And I know I mentioned this is episode 8 in the intro, apologies, I now know it's only episode 7!!!! We had to change a guest at the last minute & it scrambled my brain!!!!

Join us for an insightful chat with FIFA technical consultant & pro licence holder, Sue Ronan, as she talks about her role within womens football. Along with the recent sporting news & a special War Chest with Colin Brett from PlayerStatData, there's sure to be something for you in this episode.

Join us for a fascinating chat with former Celtic Academy Coach, Greig Robertson, as he talks about life within the world famous Celtic Football Club. Along with sporting news & some great recommendations in the War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode.

Join us for a brilliant chat with former Arsenal Head of Sport Medicine and Athletic Development, Des Ryan, as he talks about life within the world famous Gunners academy. Along with sporting news & some great recommendations in the War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode.

Join us for a fascinating chat with former Irish Olympian boxer Kenneth Egan as he talks about life within a high performance unit. Along with sporting news & some great recommendations in the War Chest, there's sure to be something for you in this episode.

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 2 of the Coaching Badges Podcast. Brought to you with the support of our good friends at @PlayerStatData Joining me on the show tonight as always, my co-host Mark Anderson, always good to see you mate.As usual, we have some topical news from the recent weeks gone by, later on Fergus Connolly joins us as our special guest & we also have some great recommendations in the War Chest.We hope you enjoy the show

Join us for episode 1 of the Coaching Badges Podcast, the first in the new season. We hope you get something from our ramblings. A special word of thanks to our main sponsor PlayerStatData. If you haven't already check out the amazing work that Colin and his team are producing around data analytics for matches, it's brilliant stuff.On the show, we check out news from the sporting weeks gone by, We'll be discussing the importance of mental health discussion & as always, we have some great recommendations in the Coaches war chest. 

Join us for episode 10 of the Coaching Badges Podcast, the last in the current season. We hope you've enjoyed Season 2 as much as we have. A special word of thanks to our main sponsor PlayerStatData. If you haven't already check out the amazing work that Colin and his team are producing around data analytics for matches, it's brilliant stuff.On the show, we check out news from the sporting weeks gone by, We'll be discussing the importance of player nutrition at all levels of the game & as always, we have some great recommendations in the Coaches war chest. Later, we'll be chatting to our guest Ryan Baldi, author of the brilliant book The Dream Factory – Inside the make or break world of footballs academies

Join us for another episode of coaching discussion. We chat about news from the recent sporting weeks and a variety of great war chest items. We are also joined by our special guest, Liam Keeley Andrews to chat about all things Futsal. Along with the other usual bits and pieces, we hope you enjoy the show

Join us for another episode of coaching chat and banter. We review the recent Euro 2020 tournament, we chat about news and a variety of great war chest items. We are also joined by our special guest, Professor Mark Williams, co-author of the bestselling book, "The Best, how elite athletes are made"

Join us for S2E7 as we chat about news from the world of sports and coaching. We discuss pressing in our coaching topic & get some brilliant insights from our special guest, performance coach Patrick Harding. We hope you enjoy the show 

Join us for Episode 6 in Season 2 as we chat about the pros and cons of 9V9 for U13s. We also have a brilliant chat with our guest Mark O'Sullivan. Along with the War Chest and our other usual bits and pieces, we're sure there's something for coaches of all levels to take away. Enjoy!

Join us for episode 5 of season 2 as we chat about video analysis in our coaching topic, share some great recommendations from our War Chest & catch up with our special guest, Emeka Onwubiko. There's sure to be something for you to enjoy.

Join us for a very special episode as we chat to The High Performance podcast co-host Professor Damian Hughes. Damian is an expert on High Performance sporting cultures and a visiting professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we did recording it. Cheers

Join us for episode 3 of season 2 as we chat about strength & conditioning in our coaching topic, share some great recommendations from our War Chest & catch up with our special guest, Irish International Free Diver, Claire Walsh. There's sure to be something for you to enjoy.

Join us for episode 2 of season 2 as we chat about defending in our coaching topic, share some great recommendations from our War Chest & catch up with our special guest, Mark Eckerle all the way from Canada. There's sure to be something for you to enjoy.

We're back after our brief holiday with more football coaching chat. Join myself, co-host Mark, Paul, Willie & Mick as we chat about team talks. Graham Merrigan joins us as our special guest as we talk about inclusion in sport & his own incredible sporting experiences.

Join us for a look back on Season 1. We chat about the coaching topics that we discussed throughout the series, the brilliant guests that came on the Pod, the Coaches War Chest recommendations & highlights as well as our guests Dream Fantasy 5 a side teams. We are already in the planning stage for Season 2 & we hope to back with Episode 1 in April 2021

Join us for the final episode of season 1 as we discuss set pieces as our coaching topic & chat with Head of Coaching from Bristol Rovers, Adrian Harvey

Check out episode 9 as we chat about transitions in football. Niall O'Regan, head of coach education at the FAI joins us as our guest. 

Episode 8: On the Pod … We'll be talking about all things football… Our Coaching topic is Attacking….and we're delighted to have Lisa Fallon on as our guest …. So, join me, Mark, Paul, Willie & Mick for what promises to be another great football discussion

In a break from our normal format, we dedicate this whole episode to chat with two top football people, Stiliyan Petrov & Gareth Farrelly. Listen in to hear their thoughts and opinions on a whole host of football and life in general topics. We had a great time chatting to the lads. We hope you enjoy it too.