Eóin Broughan

Irish, 26 | Assistant coach @rulakersmsoc | Club Soccer Coach @chicagocity_sc

[Eóin Broughan @eoin_broughan]

🏋️‍♂️ Balancing multiple coaching roles can be challenging. Between commitments at Roosevelt University and Chicago City SC, I’ve discovered that structure, boundaries, and self-care are essential. Here’s how I manage my time and prevent burnout 🧵👇

[AI @nonewthing]

Exceptional people create, and congregate around, other exceptional people.

In other words, exceptional athletic talent is also an extended production of exceptional human capital.

[Eóin Broughan @eoin_broughan]

@TheAthleticFC water is wet

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The first minute of action is worth more than a year of perfect planning.

[Route 2 FI @Route2FI]

Living in a big city is crucial for everything. Better jobs, more high IQ people, more risk takers, prettier people, in general just way more opportunities in every aspect of life. It also increases your probability of luck finding you.

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Joseph Campbell

[Eóin Broughan @eoin_broughan]

‘Man is something that shall be overcome’ - Nietzsche

[Mohammed Jammal @whitenigerian]

The joy some people derive from Arsenal’s defeat says more about human nature than football. There is a strange comfort many find in the fall of those who are striving, perhaps because it makes their own struggles feel lighter. When something or someone is seen as “good,” their failure becomes a spectacle, not just a result. It reminds us that, for many, it is easier to celebrate a downfall than to confront someone else’s rise.

[Mohammed Jammal @whitenigerian]

The joy some people derive from Arsenal’s defeat says more about human nature than football. There is a strange comfort many find in the fall of those who are striving, perhaps because it makes their own struggles feel lighter. When something or someone is seen as “good,” their failure becomes a spectacle, not just a result. It reminds us that, for many, it is easier to celebrate a downfall than to confront someone else’s rise.

[chief 🏆 @aliladiere]

Arsenal fans lives between August 2025 and February 2026:

[Luke O'Nien @LukeONien]

To any young kid reading this…

I’ve doubted myself in every league I’ve ever played in.

Ryman Prem.
Conference South.
League Two.
League One.
Championship…

And even right before my first Premier League start last night.

That’s not weakness.
That’s being human.

That’s being alive.

When I was growing up, I thought Premier League players were superhuman.

Like they never felt doubt.
Like they never felt nerves.

The truth is…. it’s often the opposite.

Social media won’t tell you that sometimes you step out there with no confidence. That’s normal. That’s ok!

You now have to then step out there with courage.

Confidence feels good.
Courage doesn’t.

But you do it anyway. Show courage enough times…. You build confidence.

Here’s the mindset that’s carried me for 31 years.

When it goes well:

I worked for it.
I earned it.
Well done.
Watch it back.
Get better.

When it doesn’t:

I know I prepared the best I could.
It didn’t go exactly to plan. That’s football.

But Well done.
Watch it back.
Get better.

That simple recipe gave me a special moment last night.

Leading the team out.
Playing alongside a group that fights for every ball.
Celebrates tackles.
Gives everything for the city of Sunderland.

And sharing it with supporters who never gave up, even after four tough seasons in League One.

So if you’re a young player feeling doubt…
Low confidence…
Or like you don’t believe in yourself…

You’re not alone.

Every player feels it.

Confidence isn’t something you’re given.

It’s something you build.

Bit by bit.
Day by day.
With courage.
With work.
With learning.

Anything worth building takes time.

But that’s what makes it so worthwhile!

Thank you @SunderlandAFC ❤️🤍

[EBL @EBL2017]

Think theoretically or fall behind.

[AI @nonewthing]

Mikel Arteta is the Steve Jobs of football.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Home is where the heat is.

[Eóin Broughan @eoin_broughan]

Creativity comes from order.
An order of intentions.
An order of references.
An order of decision making.
A crystal clear map 🗺️👓

[AI @nonewthing]

Most creative player of all time is obsessed about order.

Hm. Lessons to learn.

[Tom Erskine - Pro Academy Drills @ProAcademyDrill]

Wet night on the pitch.
A mentor told me years ago: “In summer you coach, in winter you train.”
Shorter stoppages, more activity.
Sound isn’t great because of the rain, but the message is clear.

#ProAcademyDrills #CoachEducation #FootballCoaching #YouthFootball #GrassrootsGame #WinterSessions #BallRolling

[Reptracker | Conor McEvoy @reptracker]

How well does Heimir Hallgrímsson speak here after that special afternoon in Budapest! 🥹💚

You have well and truly hooked the nation back in Mr Hallgrímsson. Roll on the playoffs.

[- @imzftbi]

Some of Arsenal’s best team plays so far this season https://t.co/rGC8odwNJO

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

Como…as coached by former Spanish international Cesc Fabregas…

Como…

Attention
Intensity
Intent

A high level of attention to read the game - to scan and search for opportunities to exploit and to scan and search for dangers to deal with…combined with a high intensity - alert and ready, alert and ready at all times…

But perhaps most pertinently. Perhaps most powerfully…

A high level of intent…

Players with high intent in-possession. The hard stuff - executing actions and interactions purposefully, positively, and proactively in-possession…with ball at feet.

How?

Session designs that help players scan and search for opportunities more so than giving them structured solutions…(increasing their expertise in reading the game)…
Session designs that help players experience high intent…
Giving permission to lose the ball…
Helping players give themselves permission to lose the ball…

Attention
Intensity
Intent

[Billy Carpenter @billycarpy]

Half-space party.

[Juani Jimena @JimenaJuani]

Marcelo Bielsa watching a football game yesterday in Uruguay ❤️