Nick D'Amore

Co-founder Allaboutsoccer. Performance Manager. University Lecturer. Pararoos Head of Player Recruitment. IFCPF Coach Ed Coordinator.

[Nick D'Amore @DirCoach]

Lessons in Leadership – OFC Learn https://t.co/frmwM9vJMs

[90s Football @90sfootball]

This England music video is incredible 🤣🤣

[Nick D'Amore @DirCoach]

@coach_kevin_m 7v7

[Nick D'Amore @DirCoach]

What a great way to start the year by watching this piece of cold.

[⚽️Pedro Mendonça🧠 @PedMenCoach]

Pep Guardiola makes it clear: mistakes are part of improvement.
You can dribble ten times and lose the ball ten times — and still improve from it.

But if you don’t try? There’s nothing to improve.

Not trying is the real mistake.
Fear stops growth.
Action creates learning.

Progress comes from courage, not perfection.
That’s how teams get better — step by step, stage by stage.

[Football DNA @footballdna_]

Jurgen Klopp’s advice for coaches on how to effectively communicate with players 👀

🎥: Jurgen Klopp

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

This clip of Pete Carroll talking different philosophies of leadership is incredible

I could listen to this type of stuff all day long

[iSportsAnalysis @iSportsAnalysis]

🌟 The Soccer Skills Assessment is your pathway to pro-level play. Show your skills and catch the eye of scouts!

⚽️ Want me to show you more? https://t.co/Sd8kgM1qdw

🚀 #SoccerDreams #FuturePros #SkillDevelopment #YouthSoccer #ChaseYourPassion

[Como1907 @Como_1907]

Take a seat next to Coach Cesc: he mixes tactics and life lessons for the Elite Summer Camp squad—words they’ll carry for a long time. 💙

[Nick D'Amore @DirCoach]

Interesting discussion to assist players going to the next level.
https://t.co/127UWlxJ5n

[STATSports @statsports]

Really nice football-specific conditioning drill from Juventus training.

Run 36.5m to bounce-pass (6secs)
Run 58m to finish cutback (10secs)
Run 67m box to box recovery (12secs)

Approximately 161m of HSR metres in one rep.

[Modern Tactics @VideosModern]

#Chelsea build up example vs #Flamengo in the #ClubWorldCup

- Exploit the 2v1 against the CDM
- Pin to free the 10
- Blindside movement to exploit the space

Made with @LiveTagPro

[Sport Session Planner @SSPlanner]

• Player with ball starts with pass to one side of square
• Receiving player touch and pass across square to opposite player
• Receiving player takes forward touch and shoots
• Players follow pass to rotate positions

Today's session is a pass and shot pattern... ⚽️👨‍💻

[Nick D'Amore @DirCoach]

Gold Dust 🧠

[Michael Stauber @mbstauber]

Full Session Post

Here’s the full session layout 📋 on “Carrying with CB’s to Penetrate.”
A full progression that starts with simple cues and ends in a position-specific 2-3-1 game.
Each activity is broken down below 🧵⬇️
#CoachesWeeklyBreakdown
(https://t.co/2TSdmO4iTm)

[Spurs Army @SpursArmyTweets]

He dared. He dreamed. He did. 🤍🇦🇺

He did what the likes of Antonio Conte, Jose Mourinho and Mauricio Pochettino couldn’t. He made fans’ dreams come true. It shouldn’t be ending like this.

Thank you.

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

The great Frank Lampard talking with the great Rodri about scanning. Mr Lampard calls it picturing, borrowing from his father’s term for it.

“Pictures, pictures, pictures” Frank Lampard Snr used to shout from the sidelines as he watched his son progress at the West Ham Academy.

Why?

Because all team invasion sports are the same. At the heart of these games lie the skills of anticipation and decision-making. Players who scan their performance environment give themselves the opportunity to:

1. See opportunities to exploit them
2. See dangers to deal with them
3. See patterns to understand the game around them

So, of course, it’s critical to instruct a player to scan. And, of course, creating activities in sessions that encourage scanning is crucial.

But here’s the thing. Perhaps the most powerful way to promote scanning behaviour is to help players understand why ‘picture taking’ is important. So often, establishing the meaning underpinning behaviour can change behaviour.

Useful can be to encourage players to understand that your team invasion sport is about actions and interactions. They constantly have to interact with their playing environment - teammates, opposition, space, ball, and target. Help them understand they are detectives of what’s happening around them. A Sherlock Holmes of the interacting elements emerging and dissolving, shifting and shaping around them.

By moulding their interest in their performance environment, you help your players mentally in two ways. It places their focus of attention outwards - they get out of their head into the game - an external focus of attention. Importantly, it also increases their activation levels (alertness and readiness) due to a rise in their fascination with what’s going on around them (a dopaminergic link here, perhaps).

Scanning, scanning, scanning
Pictures, pictures, pictures

…these are important instructions…but even more powerful could be to help players understand why they need to get their head up and start exploring the game around them.

[Nick D'Amore @DirCoach]

Watch "Finish The Attack: Attacking Set Plays | FA Learning Course Resource" on https://t.co/PmIMQee8Bn

[Nick D'Amore @DirCoach]

@DanAbrahams77 Hi Dan, the links don't work.