What areas did you think were the most vulnerable? And then two, were there any, and I know you said some are back to back, so you might not have had preparation, but let's say you're preparing for where you thought, uh, that you were going to be able to exploit space, what then does a designing a training session look like? Okay, so yeah, hopefully that makes sense.

Yeah, of course.

No problem.

So the first thing, again, everything that coaches do when they prepare for training sessions or when they analyze football is, again, is understanding the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of football.

So I'm going to try to break this down as simple as possible.

Players need to perform football actions on the pitch that are going to positively contribute to the team at a certain moment, defending or attacking.

Before we design tactics, sessions to help these players, we first need to understand what is football, but also what are the characteristics that make up football.

What your observation is of when players come in.

Was it the influence of coaches you had growing up that led you that way, or what was your youth soccer and sporting experience like when you were a youngster?

Yeah.

So I started out kicking a football with my father when I was three, four years old, just like many, uh, young boys do.

He, he played football.

He played, uh...

And when I talk to football, I mean soccer, but football, we'll use that word.

He played hockey growing up.

How did you go about doing that?

How do you go about addressing that when you get players coming into your locker room?

So now that we've established that team intentions are universal, now we're going to talk more about in the university or in the college game, the external factors that we deal with, and then how we apply the universal team intentions in our environment.

So first thing...

The main one is that it's a very shortened season.

So that's already one external factor.

You don't have 10 or 12 months to work with players.

You essentially have... three months to work with players the other external factor like you just mentioned is that you have different players coming in to uh to an environment it's almost like an like a national team where you have uh different players coming in to a shortened tournament three months and uh yeah what what do you do so those are two of the two of the let's say big external factors so If the season is short, then you have to prioritize.

What does that sound like if you were telling a player that? So coach, I need to do, I got to get 50 touches in isolation.