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Data shapes new generation of Australia’s coaches
Digital transformation is rewiring our lives. And if you delve deeper youthful football coaches are emerging, drawing on data, AI and digital insights to give their coaching an edge. We meet one such coach in Melbourne.
8 Sep 2020
New Womens Coaching Association is a game changer
The lack of women coaches in football inspired state league championship winning coach Aish Ravi and close friend Jules Hay to find a way to inspire other women to take on a leading role off the field.
3 Sep 2020
Do school teachers make the best coaches?
There is a growing call from those involved in football to re-engineer the way coaches are developed in Australia. While FFA attempts to fast track ex-players into coaching talent pools, many feel this is the wrong approach.
20 Apr 2020
Meet the top 10 Oz coaches for second division Part II
UPDATED FTBL has named our first five coaches. Who will round out our top 10 coaching talents for the second division?
1 Aug 2019
Meet Australia's top 10 coaches for the second division Part I
FTBL believes in the quality of Australia’s coaches. But with such a small number of A-League clubs opportunity has been frustratingly limited: Enter the second division.
30 Jul 2019
The 'failed’ Aussie player going places as a coach
The Ange Postecoglou legacy continues to inspire, a beacon for Australia’s next generation of coaches who may or may not have been professional footballers.
23 Jul 2019
Inside the new mindset of the game’s future leaders
If you thought today’s elite coaching courses were centered on cutting-edge tactics, session plans, and the latest formation fads, you’d only be scratching the surface, as FTBL found out.
4 Jun 2019
'We need to teach young players more than just 4-3-3'
At this crucial time for football’s future, what are the three most important issues the incoming Football Federation Australia (FFA) Technical Director must address?
2 Apr 2019
Phoenix eye under-fire City boss if Rudan exits
New Zealand sources tell FTBL if Wellington Phoenix boss Mark Rudan does depart the reborn Kiwi outfit, under-fire Melbourne City coach Warren Joyce is favourite to take over.
1 Apr 2019
New A-League club signs assistant coach from USA
US-based Australian coach John Hutchinson will join John Anastasiadis as Western Melbourne’s second signing to their coaching department.
22 Jan 2019
Crazy stories of an Aussie coach working abroad
There are Aussie coaches who’ve traveled and worked around our region. Then there’s Gary Phillips, Australia’s ultimate ‘have-clipboard-will-travel’ manager.
16 Jan 2019
A-League coach radar: top 10 Aussie NPL/OS targets
Is it the “Rudan Effect”? Maybe. But finally, there seems a genuine appetite to give Australian coaches from the NPL a chance in dugouts across the A-League.
14 Jan 2019
Striking Gold - how to solve the Socceroos' scoring woes
In three games at the recent World Cup, playing the teams ranked 7, 11 and 12 in the World, we conceded five goals – one of them a dodgy VAR penalty and two others were super unlucky deflections. All things considered, that was not too bad for a country rated 36, so clearly, defense is not a problem. Australia’s biggest problem is scoring goals.
17 Jul 2018
Leave it out Ange
Ange Postecoglou has not been directly critical of Bert van Marwijk and the Socceroos’ performance in Russia, but he’s gone pretty close.
29 Jun 2018
Where to next for rudderless Mariners?
I really liked Paul Okon. I did briefly resent him for not keeping John Hutchinson as his assistant, but I liked his passion and the style the players showed (occasionally) under his tenure. Now he is gone, and the Mariners are adrift in the darkness.
20 Mar 2018
Life After Ange
The Socceroos coach has announced his departure at the end of the 2018 World Cup campaign. Without doing any research at all, I can’t think of any previous Australia coach who has announced his departure in advance (maybe Terry Venables?). But, with Ange’s announcement comes the inevitable question: who should be next?
10 May 2017
Football Firsts: The Cruyff Turn
They're the moments that set the stands alight and sent generations of future players back to the training ground to practise and perfect.
3 Aug 2016
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GET ON BOARD! We've lined up a rare chance to learn from one of the GREAT technical skill experts in the world, Alfred Galustian, founder of Coerver Coaching!
17 Sep 2013
FFT Performance Coerver coaching clinics
YOUNG players were part of the first FFT Performance Coerver Coaching Skills Clinics at the Sutherland Shire FA in NSW during the school holidays - and the clinics are back this month.
4 Sep 2013
FourFourTwo Performance Coerver Skills Clinics
The first FourFourTwo Performance Coerver Skills Clinics were held at the Sutherland Shire FA in NSW - Australia's biggest football association. They were a resounding success with a great time had by all the players and some fantastic skills on display. Thanks to our partners adidas, EA SPORTS FIFA13 and adidas ONSIDE. Pics by Kevin Airs/www.words-and-pix.com Pictures by Kevin Airs.
19 Apr 2013
FourFourTwo gets technical
FFA will be conducting its annual National Technical Network Seminar at the AIS in Canberra from March 2-9 and FourFourTwo have been invited along to observe and share the content with our readers.
27 Feb 2013
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