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Q/A with Alan Shearer

Q/A with Alan Shearer. Questions must be submitted in advance to USL via email at soccerfest@uslsoccer.com.

Alan Shearer

Player Development Methods in Various Countries

This session is a panel discussion revolving around how specific countries view and execute player development from the youth ranks to professional level. Tentative members of the panel will be Thadeu Goncalves (Brazil), Agostinho Oliveira (Portugal), and Alan Shearer (England).

Thadeu Goncalves, Agostinho Oliveira, Alan Shearer

Role of Coaches in Identifying Players

Tony Simoes will take a look at the specific role coaches take when identifying and developing talent.  The seminar will identify key things you should be cognizant of when evaluating players.

Tony Simoes

Managing Player Personalities

Coaches deal with an array of personalities on and off the field.  This classroom session will suggest tactics and other exercises that could make your team a cohesive group, ways to create a positive team environment and methods for diffusing tense situations.

Laurie Calloway

OTS Overtraining Syndrome: Are You Overtraining Your Athletes?

This classroom session consists of a brief discussion focusing on the proper training regiment for athletes of all ages.  Mark Gochenour, Executive Director of the High Intensity Training Center , will direct this informative session.  He will shed light on issues such as recognizing player fatigue while touching on techniques that will maximize your time with your players.

Mark Gochenour

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Encouraging Creativity in Players

This seminar will be focused on training activities that help stimulate the creative nature in players.  With so much emphasis on playing structured, tactical soccer, Brazilian coach Thadeu Gonclaves will demonstrate winning practices that will allow players to play within a system while playing freely.

Thadeu Goncalves

Popular Training Techniques in Portugal

This seminar will profile drills and methods that helped this nation advance to the final four of the 2006 World Cup.

Agostinho Oliveira

Effective and Enjoyable Small-Sided Games

They say that the game is the best teacher.  Tony Glavin will demonstrate various small-sided games (with restrictions) that will allow players a significant number of touches.

Tony Glavin

Target Strikers: Holding the Ball and Creating Opportunities

This field session will focus on the roles of a target striker.

Alan Shearer and Peter Bradley

Futsal Demonstration

A popular game for developing talent in soccer world powers such as Brazil, futsal is rapidly catching on in the US. This session will give an overview of the game of futsal, it's variation from soccer, and the reasons it is so beneficial for player development.

Jon Parry

Pre-game analysis

Match insight and analysis will be given about the showcase match between West Kendall and Red Bull New York.

TBA

Post-game analysis

Match insight and analysis will be given about the showcase match between West Kendall and Red Bull New York.

TBA