Best Coaching Links of the Week: Importance of Change for Coaches, Newcastle's coaching & more

Change is rarely easy.  In fact, change is often hard and creates discomfort.  Yet without change progress is rarely possible and that is something coaches need to be particularly aware of.  In fact some clubs' decline - like that at Liverpool - is down to their inability to accept change.

I love pieces like this one that lift the curtain and allow us a look behind the scenes at a club like Newcastle that has suffered its fair share of humiliations in recent years but which now, with Rafa Benitez, have a coach that matches their fans' ambitions.

There are a lot of problem with the FA and the coaching structures within English football (as the declining standards of national team coach highlights).  Yet praise where praise is due, I really enjoy the coaching articles that they put out.  This one dealing with planning for the complexities of the game is a case in point.

And, to wrap it all up, something about psychology in sport which, rather than focus on the theoretical puts in a significant dose of it in action.

AND FINALLY...
"A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are." Bill Shankly

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