Soccer Football Whisperer, Corporate Intelligentsia, Sponsors, Fans and Players to the Rescue – It’s Now and Forever!
Without an obviously evident collapse of the anticipated quality of performance, the paying fans and sponsors traditionally have no say, or more likely have nothing to say that is considered authentic and valued enough by soccer football clubs, to be sought after. Along with players, they are the next two most important contributors towards keeping the game alive. But how would clubs seek and respond to their players, fans and sponsors reactions as customer’s feedback. The fans, sponsors and players have a critical role to play in high performance club development. The question is “how?” This paradox is treated head-on in the recently published 100 Principles Manual delivered by the Soccer Football Whisperer.
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Usually, clubs will naturally deal with customer and player feedback with less importance than they would do if the said feedback was coming from their sponsors’. So the sponsors, fans and players all have critical roles to be recognized for sustainable product design and development. This is so regardless of their capacity to clearly express the way they feel about the product. As well as how the performance of the club they care about is being maintained.
Now, for the first time, there are Whisperer tools available to facilitate these critical processes. Diligent search has indicated that very little is written that have made a bolder attempt to enlighten everyone. Even those with vested interest in the game, on high performance club development transparency, within the trusted circle clubs…until now.
Fans and mature players
The vast majority of those who support the game from the stands have, over many decades, been conditioned to sit humbly in the stand and listen to the vociferous minority argue to the point of fighting.
The Whisperer Project now makes it possible for this energy to be converted to more constructive participation on a mass scale. Giving more fans and mature players the ability to appreciate the common principles that govern high performance in the game. This is the new paradigm. Today’s generation can look up ‘www.anything’ that is of concern to them. So the Manager Coaches formerly shrouded enclave is now essentially exposed within the public domain by the Whisperer’s seminal body of work.
The mass of fans sitting helplessly in the stands have now given way to the new spectator commentators. They are taking their own podcast to social media. Many are becoming increasingly aware of how to find the solutions. Meanwhile, some clubs are being mindlessly under-served by certified professionals who happen to already know everything.
But today’s paying fans have the ways and means. So the responsibility to read and equip themselves will ensure that the available research-based high performance information is known. Then this can be applied at the clubs of their preference. Each club can and must attain the Whisperer standard quality. That way their fans and sponsors are so satisfied with the standard of performance that they can take a loss or two. And without their head hanging down as they file out to the parking lots.
More goals per game is possible
Seven goals total per game is always possible. This is a fair and achievable ask to improve the customer satisfaction level. It would not embarrassing the goalkeepers, who are forever our unsung heroes.
For this achievable reality to be accomplished, Fans and Sponsors Education are clearly the only options that are left untested. This will upstage the bastions of ignorance and stagnation of our beautiful game… Several bodies of important intellectual, scientific, and creative works designed to further the capacity of club leaders and staff, to develop high performing clubs and team players, are lying wasted on the internet and on bookshelves everywhere.
Club leaders, CEOs, Technical Committees, Manager Coaches, Players, Fans, Volunteers and Sponsors are failing to invest time. They also ignore very affordable in-staff developmental training. They should purchase reading material of relevance for expanding their contribution to the club, and the game. The evidence of all this is beyond doubt. Especially when play by first division teams, below the top four in the leading nations, are matched against the 100 Principles of High Performance manual.
A rude discovery
Players are already helping themselves with ball handling skills development. The raw material they come with is often beyond expectation. But often, upon arrival at their new clubs, they discover that they have to spend more time than is wise or necessary on the ball. Taking selfies and trying to create lasting impressions. Often this is good in training but the transition to team work has to be made in time for the season’s opener. Failure to get this cultural change accomplished is bad for the Club, and more so the Manager Coaches careers.
The fact is that the purveyors of soccer football education find a wall of resistance to new learning. Coupled with the unmentionable dismissal rate of Manager Coaches, this must be of concern to Fans and Sponsors…the true investors. The soccer football equipment manufacturer and distributors will have little concern here, as the game is guesstimated to grow at 15-20% per annul in the 2020s… with female participation leading at 25% over the same period.
To sponsors already vested in clubs
Male fans over 50 still argue more about the historic results of the past. But now the new generation male, and female to a lesser extent, are fighting to make technical points and comparative analysis of performances. Here the value of branding gets caught up in the middle.
So since Sponsors are already vested in the clubs, they will find it prudent to avail the club staff of additional training. This is offered through private sector initiatives that develop new material for increasing the leadership’s capacity at the clubs. It will enable clubs to brandish the Sponsors’ Logos with genuine pride. Hence improving the performance of the leadership is just as important as re-equipping the gym or outfitting the team.
Towards this outcome the Soccer Football Whisperer 466 page manual, “100 Principles for High Performance Soccer Football Club Development Leadership [Coaching] and Quality Control“ has to be the first line item on the 2019 budget to sponsors for the coming season. Such material will ensue the cultural changes to make clubs great again. Sponsors should ask about it!
The perennial turnover of club leadership
It is patently clear that very many clubs do not have the Leadership capacity to develop and manage a high performance curriculum. This is so despite the training efforts of FIFA over many years. The turn-over of club leadership, management and coaching staff is perennial.
Also the certification of coaches and licensing programs are locked in (FIFA training FIFA training FIFA). They just cannot guarantee new materials for continuing the dynamic education necessary to ensure success. The goal post continues to move.
Training Soccer Football CEOs
The Whisperer’s call and seminal documentation and Academy for training CEOs to fill executive position gap, for 3 – 4 year renewable contracts, is slowly being heeded. The qualitative measures that are needed to occupy that space between the Club Leaders and Manager Coaches are now sufficiently filled on this website.
If the scenarios listed below are accruing regularly on the field of play at your club, you can safely conclude that the club is being under-served by the Leadership, CEO, Manager and Coaching staff. Further, it is your duty to demand an explanation. You as customer, investor, staff, player or volunteer must stand your ground without apology.
As a reader you will know that the high performance information material and training for the Club has been available since November 2016. The use of the 100 Principles cited in the body of work, can begin positive cultural changes at your club within one month of conscientious implementation, with all hands on deck!
A refresher list for the soccer football manager coach
The list below does not mean that the Manager Coach is not trained or is of little value but it can be safely concluded that a refresher is overdue:
1) More than one payer used to deliver a corner to no clearly obvious advantage, thus reducing a payer from an informed and constructive reception set-up
2) Wayward delivery of low or ballooning corners, delivered by a non-specialists
3) Undue hesitancy is taking a throw because the reception party is not in place or
4) Thrower and players within range fail to spot take the attacking advantage for placing pressure on the defenders back end.
5) Consistently throwing the ball towards own goal, or across field in to a contested area at the center of mass.
6) Throwing short in a manner designed to receive a return ball while being marked and trapped in a contested area, even when there may be help around or arriving late.
7) Failure of the team to display a disciplined and consistent passing culture that can be unobtrusively recorded by the Whisperer’s Passing Culture Verification Tool
8) Low level of instrumental aggression in attack due to lack of high performance information on 360° vista and position awareness, full-field structural team play coaching, set-play choreography rehearsal and advantageous time consciousness in the construction.
9) Rampant and consistent over playing of passes and on contact, indicating that tactile calibration is disregarded in the curriculum and needs to be identified as a problem, isolated coached and practiced to skill fixation, under competitive conditions in the pre-season.
10) Unwillingness of flank players to make the run for the opponents’ goal line from the third, when there is space, opportunity and time to win more corners, or stretch the defense, and play in early crosses, hence showing lack of courage, confidence or instruction.
11) Players repeatedly using the ball to tackle opponents at the center of mass, who were ten or more yards away, and by so doing deny opportunities for timely runs on the flanks, or ball-side sprint braking across the top of the channels for scoring opportunities… denied.
12) Players having little or no access to a personalized qualitative performance tool that can track their progress from personal best or for comparison among peers, and at their level on the Whisperer International MVP Performance scale.
13) Clubs fielding 11 individuals with each representing them self, and having to match their performance against salary and other incentive to the exclusion of team football.
14) When heading in the squad is becoming a dying skill. Usually this is due to lack of technical preparation in visual tracking, timing to accommodate non visual moment on crosses, side-on approach for safety, chin tucked beneath the clavicle and raised shoulder group. Making timely impact adjustment to minimize force that will send the ball over the top, glancing down with the temple, rather than flashing head or whipping from the neck.
15) General Instruction for Tactical Heading: Defenders Third – if pressured and heading is random then out for a corner or back for the GK. Otherwise, up and towards flank or teammate in the clear a from the penalty area – Middle Third – flat or down towards a team mate to recover the ball – Attackers Third. Soft drop for shot, headed down to score or to play across goal…situational variations are acceptable but must be accurate and safe.
Conclusion
The Discussion Prompters and Tools from the Manual will help redirect the performance culture at the club. The players will add the rest for a winning season, provided they are fit, motivated, fast and are playing and continuously being prepared within the Principles…go test them for yourselves. There are no champions guilty of high performance malpractice…so get on board to stay competitive. Happy hunting!
