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Ian Barker
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Jul 9, 2026
Ian Barker on the Landscape of Coaching Education in the U.S.
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20:29Brooks LanebeerHOST
But sometimes do you think, are we too reliant on other countries? european or other international countries to give us our answers and not us look within ourselves to understand that maybe we need there's a different way for us to draw up a program to then develop players yes

Ian BarkerGUEST
yes yes and yes in my defense I came to America in 1987 and other than some coaching while I was a player in college, I've only ever coached professionally.

Ian BarkerGUEST
So I feel my English ism has informed me and helped me, but my coaching style and my coaching influences are highly American.

Ian BarkerGUEST
Um, I think we do ourselves a disservice as us coaches, coaches based in the U S trained in the U S.

Ian BarkerGUEST
If we have any kind of sense of inferiority to the rest of the world, we have a much more fledgling professional league in terms of MLS and, well, MLS at least, than the rest of the world.
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