2013

Presentation: Three day coaching summit for the Puget Sound Premier League, Seattle, WA

Topics:

  1. Awareness vision training for younger ages teaching enhanced fast self-thought: mirroring the Barcelona academy ethos that learning the game begins “in the mind”.
  2. The 4-2-3-1 attacking system of play and orchestrated movements within it; likened to Jose Mourinho and real Madrid plus the Spanish national teams philosophies of play.
  3. Target games for fast movement off the ball and quick decision making (the skill factor).

Presentation on the 4-2-3-1 at the NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis

Topic: “4-2-3-1 system of play” – Received by over 1,600 coaches from the USA and abroad. Also the Soccer Awareness books sold out at the Convention at the Reesdswain booth.

Presentation: Two day symposium for Tennessee Soccer Club

Topics:

  1. Classroom: “Continuums of development” in assessing awareness in the strengths and the areas of improvement needed in players
  2. Classroom:  Team shape in a 4-2-3-1 and how it changes (with animation)

Presentation: One day presentation for Inland Empire

Topic: Target games for fast movement off the ball and quick decision making (the skill factor)

Presentation: Two day presentation for Surf Utah in Salt Lake City

Topics:

  1. Classroom: Surf Soccer Club Introductory Presentation
  2. Classroom: Continuums of development” in assessing one touch awareness in the strengths and the areas of improvement needed in players
  3. Classroom: Team shape in a 4-2-3-1 and how it changes (with animation)
  4. Field: Awareness vision training for younger ages teaching enhanced fast self-thought: mirroring the Barcelona academy ethos that learning the game begins ‘in the mind’
  5. Field: The 4-2-3-1 attacking system of play and orchestrated movements within it; likened to Jose Mourinho and real Madrid plus the Spanish national teams philosophies of play

2012

Presentation for World Class Coaching in Nebraska

Topics:

  1. The 4-2-3-1 system of play and its orchestrated movements
  2. Counter attacking and quick break in a 4-2-3-1

DVD’s produced from these sessions

2009

Presentation of a coaching clinic at the Minnesota State Youth Soccer Association Symposium

Topic: Awareness training and the psychological link between developing fast feet and a quick mind in decision making

Presentation at the Reedswain Super Clinic in Atlantic City

Topics:

  1. Awareness training and the psychological link between developing fast feet and a quick mind in decision making”
  2. Teaching combination plays and the opposite movements of strikers
  3. Individual striker runs to develop movement and finishing techniques

Presentation of a clinic for the New Jersey State Soccer Association

Topic: Awareness training and the psychological link between developing fast feet and a quick mind in decision making

2008

Presentation of a classroom clinic at the NSCAA Convention in Baltimore, MD

Topic: The development of soccer in the USA today

2007

Presentation of a clinic at the NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis

Topic:  Awareness training and the psychological link between developing fast feet and a quick mind in decision making

Presentation of a clinic at the World Class Coaching seminar in Kansas

Topic: Awareness training and the psychological link between developing fast feet and a quick mind in decision making

2005

Presenter of two clinics at the Reedswain Superclinic Symposium in New Jersey. This is the second-biggest soccer coaching symposium in the USA.

Topics:

  1. A.I.A. Training; 1v1 through 3v3 defending
  2. Shadow defending and zonal marking
  3. Soccer coaching using the awareness numbers game and Small-sided situations to emphasize and develop the theme

2003

Presentation of a coaching clinic and classroom workshop at the Maryland Winter Soccer Symposium in Baltimore, MD

Topics: Recognizing the moment to play – awareness training (floor clinic) and Defending through the thirds (classroom workshop)

2002

Presentation of a coaching clinic at the MYSA Winter Symposium

Topic: Developing play through the thirds

2001

Presentation of a coaching clinic at the winter symposium for Minnesota Youth Soccer Association

Topic: Economical training – touches on the ball – recognizing the moment to play

Presentation of a coaching clinic at the Minnesota State High School Coaches Association 11th Annual Coaches’ Symposium

Topic: The importance of anticipation in soccer

2000

Presentation of coaching work at the Minnesota State High School Soccer Coaches Association 10th Annual Coaches Symposium

Topic: When to mark players and when to mark space in a phase of play

Presentation of a coaching clinic at the state soccer fair for Minnesota Youth Soccer Association

Topic: Anticipation / Imagination / Awareness – A psychological approach to soccer