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Bringing a vision to life

Sep 15, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

REHANNE SKINNERWest Ham Women, 2023-Managing a club full-time was always the job that I wanted. Before I became West Ham manager, I had worked in football for nearly 25 years in a variety of roles - some paid, plenty unpaid. A lot of people in the women's game have been in the same boat. Doing this job - meaning I don't need to do other football-related roles on the side because the salary isn't enough to live on - is a relatively recent thing.
Des Buckingham: League One playoff final tactics

Aug 6, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

League ONE PLAYOFF FINAL, MAY 18 2024Bolton Wanderers 0 Oxford United 2 On March 12 2024, playoff hopefuls Oxford United went to promotion-chasing Bolton Wanderers and suffered a chastening 5-0 defeat. A little more than two months later, the tables were turned, as Des Buckingham's Yellows ran out deserved 2-0 winners in the League One playoff final. Bolton were favourites going into that Wembley meeting, having finished 10 points ahead of Oxford across 46 league games.
A clear identity - The Coaches' Voice

Aug 4, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

DES BUCKINGHAMOxford United, 2023-Leading Oxford United out at Wembley - the team I grew up supporting, as a local boy - was a very special moment for me and my family. What an incredible experience it was to sing the national anthem on that pitch, on what is a sacred place for English football. I hope it's not a once-in-a-lifetime thing, but I will never forget it.
Give it your best shot

Jul 28, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

STEPHEN CLEMENCEBarrow, 2024-From the moment I led my first session, I knew I wanted to coach. I was a player at Leicester, doing my licences, when I took that session with Birmingham's Under-14s. I walked off the training pitch and thought to myself: "Yes, this is what I want to do."Then I took my second session and came off thinking: "Bloody hell, I'm hopeless!"I knew then that I would have to work hard to become a coach.
Getting the picture - The Coaches' Voice

Jul 25, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

LIAM ROSENIORRacing Club de Strasbourg, 2024-My dad has a drawing I did when I was eight years old. He says he is going to give it to me when that picture becomes a reality. Dad was playing for Fulham when I was born in 1984. He had two spells there, either side of playing for QPR under Jim Smith. My mum always took me to his games, pretty much from when I was a newborn. Football was in the blood in our family. For me and my brother Daron, growing up, the highlight of our week was always Saturday.
Being brave - The Coaches' Voice

Jul 13, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

SCOTT LINDSEYCrawley Town, 2023-I have the attitude of: "What's the worst that can happen?" Things have happened in my life that have shaped me as a person. It's quite well documented that I lost my wife to cancer, and I've lost other loved ones. It is fair to say that, going through that, I learned a lot about myself. First and foremost as a person, but obviously it impacts who you are professionally, too. As a coach, I don't go into any games with fear.
Creating trust - The Coaches' Voice

Jul 7, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

LIAM ROSENIORHull City, 2022-2024Everything in football is a process. I want my teams to be dominant, on the front foot and scoring goals, but there is a learning process that produces that. You would never teach a five-year-old algebra, for example. You teach what's right for them at that stage. That is why a lot of coaches speak about process and being given time, but not enough get it.
Scott Lindsey: How my Crawley team won a record-breaking promotion

Jul 4, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

SCOTT LINDSEYCrawley Town, 2023-When Scott Lindsey guided Crawley Town to League One promotion in 2024, he oversaw a record EFL playoff aggregate victory. That was impressive enough, but the style in which his team beat MK Dons 8-1, then won at Wembley against favourites Crewe Alexandra, was very special indeed.
Development goals - The Coaches' Voice

Jun 15, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Tony Hodson

ruud van nistelrooyPSV, 2022-2023"Listen, you're not going to start most of the games. You're going to come on. It's important now that you're taking care of the younger players." It was my last season as a player, at Málaga, and Manuel Pellegrini had told me that I wasn't going to be a regular starter. In the beginning, it was difficult to accept. I was a player, not a coach, and I wanted to play. In the end, though, it made me transform my ideas and think, okay, how can I help these guys?
More than a job - The Coaches' Voice

Jun 12, 2024 | coachesvoice.com | Craig Bloomfield

SLAVEN BILICCroatia, 2006-2012When I made Luka Modric the captain of Croatia's Under-21s, did I think that he would go on to win a Ballon d'Or? No, no, no. It would be a lie if I said that, but it is true that me and my assistant, Aljosa Asanovic, saw something special in Modric from day one. He was so obsessed with football, absolutely focused on every touch of every ball. He is still like that. Every ball matters, especially at a young age, but it also matters with senior, professional players.