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Longer thoughts on coaching, youth development, and what competitive sport teaches that the classroom can't. New pieces land here first, then everywhere @kevtarrant.
The whole player is the whole person
The best thing I saw this week was a child asking the others at his lunch table to use the bin. Talent has never bought anyone an exemption from that.
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A seven-year-old's first goal with his development foot, and twenty years of moments I could not bottle. The story behind my book.
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Young athletes spend their downtime on screens and their nights too short. One of those problems is easy to fix. The other decides how much of the training sticks.
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A nervous visitor, two young players and a fist bump: what one first session taught me about belonging, and why the best coaching cultures run themselves.
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