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Manager Football Development Dutch FA🦁⚽️🌱| Former PE-Teacher | Former Coordinator/Coach Gr Roots & Pro Aca | UEFA-A | Coach-Educator |UEFA Mentor | Pers 🐦

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Jorg van der Breggen
4 years
“Building an Evidence-based youth development programme” ⚽️🇳🇱💪🏼 Ask questions & question things that seems so common, like f.i. the system. What are the returns? Look beyond the outcomes a/t peak. It’s all about opportunities! Thanks 🙏🏼 @MSAIreland ⤵️
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🗣️"If professional NFL scouts cannot pick 7 times Super Bowl winner Tom Brady at age 23, why do we deify 8 year olds...or let kids sit on the bench, because we think they're not good enough....!?" #whisperingtalent #TomBrady #TalentID #Development 📈
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2 years
“I played the best football of my career when the coach did not tell me what to do, when I have been free of movement, free with my imagination” - Cesc Fabregas on Conte, Guardiola and why spontaneity in football is dying
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8 months
"There is no such thing as an elite 8-year-old, a high-performance 10-year-old, or a professional 11-year-old"
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3 years
For all coaches …. ⤵️
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3 years
We are complex dynamic systems instead…
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3 years
Alfie plays football …
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3 years
The illusion of learning vs The process of learning
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3 years
“Scientists have recently determined that it takes approximately 400 reps tot create a new synapse in the brain, unless it is done with PLAY, in which it takes between 10-20 reps (withouten reps)” Dr. Karin Purvis
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1 year
‘People who don't like football don't appreciate my game, but I like it’ ~ Sergio Busquets
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4 years
“Obsessing about winning is a loser’s game. The most we can hope for is to create t best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. What matters most is playing t game the right way and having the courage to grow as human beings as well as players!” Phil Jackson
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Jorg van der Breggen
2 years
“If you’re a youth coach you have to make a decision. Do you wanna help the players to develop themselves or do you just want to win the youth league?” ~ Stan van Gundy
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2 years
🗣”Screaming doesn’t equal coaching & decision making is their process!!” #letthemplay
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2 years
Luciano Spalletti on the evolution of modern Football: “Systems no longer exist in football, it’s all about the spaces left by the opposition. You must be quick to spot them and know the right moment to strike, have the courage to start the move even when pressed." /1
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Jorg van der Breggen
3 years
Parenting & supporting just by sitting back and enjoying your kids, nothing else is needed. Because it’s THEIR game. If #Messi and #Suarez can do it... #letthemplay
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4 years
"PLAYING OUTSIDE should be a subject at school" Johan Cruyff
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2 years
What do you see and hear? And what is your opinion about this clip? 👇🏼
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2 years
Systems no longer exist,it’s about spaces left b/t opposition. You must be quick to spot them,know t moment 2 strike&have t courage to start moving even when pressed.There are no tactical schemes anymore.Spaces are no longer between t lines but among players.Skill is finding them
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4 years
Coaching, playing, learning ⤵️
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4 years
Obsessing about winning is a loser’s game. The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go o/t outcome. What matters most is playing the game the right way and having the courage to grow,as human beings as well as players. Phil Jackson
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2 years
Shouting doesn’t equal coaching & making choices in the game is their process! 👇🏼
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3 years
“We’re terrible at talent identification and we should avoid it as long as possible. We need to get comfortable with the fact that when we do these early selections, most of the time they’re wrong and most of the time they’re biased.” @bakerjyorku
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3 years
Selecting “talented” individuals at young ages basically means selecting the ones who won the calendarlottery🎰,born closer to the calendar cutoff. The earlier we make cuts & (de)select kids out o/t system, the more likely we‘re to get it wrong. The evidence: relative age effect.
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1 year
De Zerbi football “He and his followers are deconstructing narratives around what football is &how it might be played.His strategy transcends mere functionality as his tactical approach provokes us to question even our most deep-seated footballing beliefs”
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Jorg van der Breggen
2 years
For some reason many adults have been convinced that sports can either be competitive or fun, but not both & they couldn’t be more wrong. People don’t understand that enjoyment is about the happiness derived from pursuing your potential & your passion👇🏼
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Jorg van der Breggen
11 months
“At 12-years old I was told….” No, it’s not predictable, because we as human beings (not products) are “complex and dynamic” by definition. And therefore our development is unpredictable and the younger the more…. 🔮📈⚽️👇🏼 #Beckham #potential #talent #growth #development
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3 years
For all coaches ….⤵️
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“We must be patient and we must focus on developing good players and good people” Johan Cruyff
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3 years
“Imagine being 10y old & continuously hearing different instructions, in different tones,from different people, as in coach(es) & parent(s). No doubt all well-intentioned, but it’s not going to help, in fact the opposite will be the result. Is that we want for them & their game?”
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Jorg van der Breggen
3 years
“There’s no such thing as a 9-year old future centre back” ✅If you truly care about the individual development of players rotating positions is key, definitely i/t foundation phase. Let them have fun,exploit & discover their game an everything that’s in it!There is more to win!
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Jorg van der Breggen
2 years
Thomas Tuchel at youth coaching forum: “There’s one unforgettable thing I heard from a youth director of FCB when Iniesta joined the academy, he told his youth coaches: ‘don’t try to improve him, just take care of him.”
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2 years
“Play football and enjoy ourselves” ⚽️🫶🏼 #thebeautifulgame
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1 year
Gary Lineker hits the nail on the head with his thoughts on football parents…. 🗣 "Just shut up and let them play" 🎥 BBC Sounds @PlanItCoach
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Jorg van der Breggen
2 years
The art of dribbling #Musiala ⚡️⚽️ Dribbling, not only i/t foundation phase is an absolute must! Don’t be fooled by the "play & pass the ball" shouting people! Dribbling in game context provides the opportunity to learn to discover & exploit spaces with a ball! #TheBeautifulGame
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Jorg van der Breggen
10 months
"I trained 3-4 hours a week at Ajax when I was little but played 3-4 hours everyday on the street. So where do you think I learnt football?" - Cruyff
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2 years
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Jorg van der Breggen
3 years
✅ As many children as possible; ✅ As long as possible; ✅ As good as possible! @aikfotboll @markstkhlm @DHrtin ⚽️💪🏼
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2 years
“I like to take care of the people in my work, not only the player, because before to be a player you’re a person.” Carlo Ancelotti
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3 years
✅Give them time & space in best possible environment you can facilitate! #development #nonlineair 📈
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“How can you possibly play if you’re 10 years old and you got 12 people (parents, coaches …) yelling at you ..…!” #blablabla #letthemplay #stevekerr
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Jorg van der Breggen
2 years
The longer I see coaches coach & talk about coaching, the more I realise that coaching isn't about “making children” technically, tactically brilliant from a young age. I/t end it’s all about meeting the needs o/t kids &retaining them playing & loving the game until a later age!
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1 year
“There is no one-size-fits-all. So why are we using generic, linear models to try to find unique people?” ~ @markstkhlm
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Jorg van der Breggen
5 years
“Kids will have periods where they plateau/or grow quickly,they improve rapidly/or get worse. All part o/t sporting process.The latter one is difficult for coaches&parents but reality. 1 thing is clear, current/early sporting performance isn’t a good indicator of future success.”
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Jorg van der Breggen
4 years
🗣”Imagine you’re a 10 year old who’s enjoying & discovering the game. But continuously during your game you hear a lot of(different) instructions⤵️, in different tones, from different people. Undoubtedly well intentioned, but this isn’t going to help!” #letthemplay #childcentered
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Jorg van der Breggen
3 years
'If we want kids to participate in sport, we have to cater for all children. There is a "drive towards elitism" and that we overly invest in the top 1% of talent too early and push the others to the side.’ Dr Colman Noctor
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3 years
The benefits of age mixing! More dynamic environmental information, to promote a wider range of training session stimuli for (young) football players….⤵️
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9 months
Mum / Dad 👩 👨 Be QUIET … 🤫 #Letthemplay ⚽️🌱
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2 years
Oud maar steengoed filmpje v Johan Cruijff over de kern & eenvoud v/h jeugdvoetbal! Voor trainers&ouders👇🏼 🗣”Het is leuk als ze plezier hebben, dat ze leuk voetballen &dat t leuk is onder elkaar. De uitslag is echt totaal onbelangrijk. Het is zuiver t spel, daar begint t mee”
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2 years
“Kids flourish when they feel safe to try & fail. Kids flourish when they feel cared for &supported regardless of their performance. If you want your kids to improve & develop a love for sport,don’t create an environment of pressure & stress. Create an environment of love & FUN!”
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4 months
⚽️🌱💪🏼 …….. @alfiekohn
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3 years
For all coaches…⤵️
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1 year
“How are you going to create the next Christiano Ronaldo or the next Messi if you don’t give them the freedom to run at people, take risks and be creative. If you can’t do it at nine and ten when can you?" @TomS_Soccer ~ Manchester United Academy Coach
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2 years
Kick off @sscnapoli 🚀⚽️
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2 years
“It’s hard to survive i/t jungle if you were trained in a zoo” Development of people, players & the game of football: ✔️complex ✔️dynamic ✔️fast-changing ✔️open-skill sport ✔️unpredictable ✔️non-linear ✔️decision making ✔️play ✔️curiosity ✔️imagination ✔️creativity ✔️….
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Jorg van der Breggen
4 years
This ⤵️ 🗣”Get over yourself it’s not your game, let THEM enjoy, discover and learn & love the game!”
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Jorg van der Breggen
5 years
“The only pathways kids should be on until well into their teens are footpaths. The idea that a 12-year-old is on the pathway to a professional sports career is ridiculous and speaks only to parental obsession , not reality.”
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Jorg van der Breggen
2 years
“So we just play, that’s why we came and what we’re best at!” U-12s match in Murcia, Spain. The 1st & 2nd o/t league we’re playing for the top spot & referee, Javier Martinez Noguera, gave the kids a great speech before kickoff! #play #fun #learn #respect 👇🏼 ⁦ @IJaSport
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2 years
A player led team will always outperform a coach led team 👇🏼
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2 years
“Children, especially at the beginning of their sporting adventures, don’t need and want every minute to be (over)organized. They need space, spontaneity, play & fun! We should provide an environment where this is possible & first and foremost take into account their well-being.”
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3 years
"Instead of measuring the success of an amateur sports club by the amount of silverware in their trophy cabinet, why not measure it by how many juvenile players continue to play into adulthood?" @colnoc77
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“Self-education through play & exploration requires enormous amounts of unscheduled time - time to do whatever one wants to do, without pressure, judgment, or intrusion from authority figures.” ~ Peter Gray
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4 years
"An isolated technical training only results in the problem that techniques cannot be related to situations and therefore a tactic cannot be trained. We know from studies that technical training is not as effective as combined technical-perception training and cannot be .. (1/2)
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9 months
Wow 🤩⚽️
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4 years
#GoldenBoy “As Many, as Long, as Good as Possible!” #Haaland ✅Played until he was 16 for his mother club Bryne; ✅He was born 2000 but played with the team born 1999; ✅His training group consisted of 40 players (39 boys & 1 girl); ✅At 9 they had 1 training session a week; /1
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10 months
Leaders, recruiters, coaches and parents…. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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2 years
“Early talent identification is a snapshot without a focus, a picture viewed through a subjective adult lens that more than often does not take into account the complexity and non-linearity of human development.” Per Göran Fahlström
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3 years
"The game is chaotic, fluid, and unpredictable. You can't reduce it to a series of behaviors (however open they may be). You don't attack AND defend, you attack HOW you defend, and vice-versa." - Paco Seirul·lo
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2 years
Happy to announce I have a new job as the Manager Football development within the Dutch FA. ⚽️🇳🇱🦁A big thanks to all my colleagues for their support & great teamwork! I’m really looking forward to our next steps i/t best interest of all those (potential)youth footballers! @KNVB
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Your children are not a masterpiece that you create. They are their own masterpiece, creating themselves, and you have been given the privilege of watching them be the artist. ~ J. Warren Welch
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1 year
Talentdevelopment 📈⚽️ #nonlinear #unpredictable #patience
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"Football has to be FUN for kids or it doesn't make sense" - Johan Cruyff
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3 years
As a coach you need to understand that learning which is taking place isn’t measurable in front of you & it doesn’t show by any ‘result’ i/t weekend. ✅ Coaching & learning is about having an actual impact over time…years or longer. Impact o/t total development of the children!
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Jorg van der Breggen
4 years
Selecting “talented” individuals @ young ages basically means selecting the ones who won the calendarlottery/wo are born closer 2 the calendar cutoff. The evidence aka: Relative Age Effect.The earlier we make cuts&deselect kids out o/t system,the more likely we‘re 2 get it wrong.
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3 years
As a coach you need to understand that learning which is taking place isn’t measurable in front of you. It also doesn’t show by any result i/t weekend. Coaching & learning is about having an actual impact over time,years or longer. An impact on the total development o/t children!
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“Allow a football child to be just that...a football child and not a football adult! This means letting them play. It means helping them explore. It means offering choice. It means helping them foster a love for movement. It means laughter more so than sweat...” @DanAbrahams77
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4 years
🗣”Designing sports systems that neglect over 99% o/t population in favour o/t fewer than 1% who might go on to achieve elite level status is becoming pervasive.Such single-minded preoccupation with longterm success can have wide-ranging&damaging implications argued @jeancote46
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Jorg van der Breggen
8 months
🗣️ 𝐗𝐚𝐛𝐢 𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨 ⚽️🌱 Tactical philosophy: VERSATILITY 👇🏼 “We don’t talk too much about 3-2-2-3 or 3-2-4-1. It’s more about what we think could happen in the game. And where we should be to get an advantage!” @bayer04fussball
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4 years
🗣️"Youth sports must always be about the kids (& not the coach) & their development. Winning will naturally looks after itself when you focus on their development. Facilitate & help them (to love the sport)! Allow them to make mistakes & learn from them. You'll win everything!"
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2 years
Coaches and parents of youth players (in any sport) - in 10 years your kid isn’t going to remember how they did at some random youth tournament when they were 8. You know what they will remember, though? Their relationship with you. Don’t forget what’s actually important.
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“participants who had played football in informal settings (streets, schoolyards)showed significantly higher levels of creativity than those who had only played in org clubs”~ Memmert&Roth(2007) Effects of non-specific& specific concepts on tactical creativity in team ball sports
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1 year
Train as you play! The major finding of this study indicates that even a “technical skill” can be improved more effectively by nonlinear training than by isolated technical drills. ~Improving effectiveness of training in youth soccer players~ 👇🏼📈⚽️
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2 years
“I just want to play happy and see you happy!” 🙌🏼 #parents #letthemplay @fundaciobrafa
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5 years
@RealSociedad ⁩ a football club shaped by its academy | The youngest age group in the academy is the Under-13s. “We start late as we want them to have the chance to be kids first,” says Zubieta. ⤵️⚽️
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“…. They just have to make sure not to ruin the raw material they take in.” About street, unorganized, spontaneous football 👇🏼 @VascodaGama ⚽️❤️
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2 years
“Remember children don't learn anything from obedience other than how to command and obey, a dubious education at best. They learn everything else by listening, watching, playing and discovering. This real learning takes place on their schedule, not ours.”
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11 months
Creating good relationships between players! Diniz's @FluminenseFC won the #CopaLibertadores2023 with these 2 goals. "Relationism" where players have no fixed position, rotate & press aggressively as in Futsal. It’s creating an environment in which self-organization is possible!
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1 year
“There’s nothing wrong with kids who want to win a game. In general kids want to win, it’s simple because that’s the objective of every game. It tend to go wrong when adults want kids to win& take things in their own hand. Let them play,discover,learn &have FUN in their game!”
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4 years
This .... ⤵️
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1 year
TalentID - & Development….📈📊 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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3 years
This 👌⤵️
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2 years
There’s a great message in this video from one of the greatest of al time @kaj33 👇🏼 Play, explore, make mistakes, discover your own game and repeat 🔁 Instead of being ‘overcoached’ as a child, you can never ‘overplay’ yourself!
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2 years
“Remember children don't learn anything from obedience other than how to command and obey, a dubious ‘education’ at best…. They learn everything else by listening, watching, playing and discovering. This real learning takes place on their schedule, not ours.”
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1 year
“Do you want to know the real reason why kids are walking away from sport? Because we let adults — or rather adult thinking — replace the real fundamental reasons sport exists: to have fun, to learn, to make friends and to be connected with other people…” @waynegoldcoach
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Jorg van der Breggen
11 months
❌ The game isn’t a drill… ✅ The game in full flow is a thousand different movements, scenarios and interactions! 👇🏼
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