Ontario Soccer is proud to present a new podcast episode, featuring the Coach of Head Coaches, Cody Royle.
Since his days as Head Coach of the Australian Football League (AFL)'s Team Canada, Cody has gone on to write three renowned books on Coaching and leadership: "Where Others Won't," "The Tough Stuff," and "Second Set of Eyes" - which was released just a few weeks ago.
Nowadays, Cody works with over a dozen Head Coaches from countries all over the world, helping each of them reach their fullest potential by engaging in more self-care and reflection, fine-tuning their Coaching skills, and discovering their greatest competitive edge. His tips and tactics are useful for Coaches at all levels, from the grassroots to the pros.
Click here to watch the interview with Cody Royle on the Ontario Soccer YouTube Channel.
To listen on-the-go, check out the the audio-only podcast, available here.
As a growing sport, taking into account the realities of the Canadian climate and readily available facilities, there is a unique opportunity for futsal to be deployed throughout Ontario. Mauricio Marques & Rodrigo G. Lima discuss how futsal can be developed as its own program and sport as well as how it can be used to enhance the development of football players.
Coaches are always looking for an edge when looking to prepare the players for the demands of competition. But what you, the coach? In this webinar, Cody Royle explores the coach as a performer with a specific focus on being self-aware as well as strategies to accelerate your performance.
Taking into account holistic athlete development, as prescribed by Canada Sport for Life, Matt Young discusses the importance of looking beyond the technical-tactical aspects of human development through sport and challenges you to explore the 5 C's in your environment.
This webinar is intended for anyone designated in a club to lead program development or inclusion, or for anyone with a real passion for All Abilities sport.
Matt Greenwood, the Executive Director of Pickering Soccer will host the upcoming webinar All Abilities in Soccer – Where to Start. Greenwood is a passionate advocate for the inclusion and accessibility of soccer in all forms. He has previously developed innovative All Abilities soccer programs in the UK back in 2003 and achieved his first certification as an All Abilities Football Coach in 2002. In 2006, Matt moved to Ontario and began assisting clubs with the development of their programs in this area.
In this webinar, with Dr. Jean Côté, will focus on reviewing and examining the concept of coaching effectiveness and present the fundamental principles of Transformational Coaching.
Côté is professor and Director in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada).
His research interests are in the areas of youth sport, coaching, and positive youth development. He has published more than 150 refereed papers on a variety of sport psychology topics and given over 300 scientific presentations. Dr. Côté is regularly invited to present his work to both sport governing organizations and academic conferences throughout the world.
Athlete selection in soccer, and most competitive sports, invariably leads to discussions about talent. This webinar, with Dr. Joe Baker from York University, focused on the evidence for and against the notion of talent in sport.
Dr. Baker is a professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University and has been conducting research on high-performance athlete development for over 20 years. Recently, this work has focused on issues related to talent in sport.
He has published 8 books and over 200 research articles and book chapters. He has been an advisor for sport organizations around the world including a recent engagement working with the Football Association in the United Kingdom.
In this webinar, led by Billy Wilson, Manager of Player Development, will explore the gap that exists in sports-training environments between traditional coaching methodology and what science considers good practice.
The Ontario Soccer team will discuss what learning actually looks like, the misconceptions, and how we can develop training sessions that are player-centred.
Stephanie McFarland is an occupational therapist at the Holland Bloorview Concussion Centre’s clinical programs. She supports youth and families with symptom management, return to school and sport after concussion injuries. Stephanie also leads the school and sport partnerships of the concussion centre. She consults with local, provincial and national sport & school organizations on their concussion strategy to ensure consistency with best-practice guidelines, provincial legislation and successful implementation at the ground level.
Unfortunately less than 44% of Canadian children are considered Physically Literate. This has a devastating impact on our society and our sports programs. Join Ontario Soccer’s Billy Wilson, to explore how to can incorporate physical literacy and fundamental movement training into our Grassroots training environments
Dr. Nick Wattie is a Sport Scientist in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ontario Tech University. His research examines various factors related to talent identification and development in sport, expertise in sport, skill acquisition, and positive youth development through sport. Projects on these topics include athletes from range of populations, including youth, elite adult, and parasport. He is a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Talent Identification and Development in Sport, and he has published extensively on relative age effects in sport.
Relative age describes the age differences between youth within the same age group in sport. Typically, older youth within their age groups experience a range of advantages over their younger peers. This webinar will summarize the existing evidence on relative age effects in sport, but will also highlight a number of misconceptions about relative age effects, as well as unique developments in this area that might be relevant to parents and practitioners involved in youth sport.
Understanding the athlete as they transition from grassroots into train to train and train to compete is of utmost importance.
Wendy Rijnen Glover, a Coach and Holistic Athlete Development Consultant, has spent 21 years developing potential in athletes and with teams.
She is able to support athletes in the best way for their success individually and on teams. She approaches development in athletes by understanding many factors related to the sport, besides just the technical and tactical aspects, which are mostly what is focused on by coaches, teams, and others.
Of concern is developing the potential and providing much needed support of the player in other areas unrelated to technical or tactical development.
Her interest is not only in developing the athlete’s sport performance, but developing the Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, and Social needs of the athlete (PIES), based on a proven personal development system.
This support system allows the player to focus more on their sport. She has developed this concern after 20+ years teaching, coaching, and assisting athletes transition through sport.
Dr. Martin Toms, a former Ontario Soccer Summit presenter, recently hosted a webinar on early specialization vs multi-sport approaches.
Toms is a senior lecturer in Sport Science at the University of Birmingham in England and he has expertise in youth sport, developmental socialization and talent development from the angles of both practical coaching and applied social-psychology.
He has a vast amount of experience in youth coaching with a deep focus on early engagement but late specialization. His presentation is engaging and informative on how coaches and parents can provide the best sporting environments for their children and players to succeed and continue competing well into adulthood. As a former youth and professional coach and current university lecturer, he has a wealth of knowledge and experiences that he draws upon to present his information to the audience.
A lot of things are changing in the youth soccer world, but one thing has remained sadly consistent: soccer loses 70 per cent of youth players by the age of 13.
John O'Sullivan, from the Changing the Game Project, believes that with just a simple refocus on a few core principles with regards to what children want, what coaches can give them, and how to engage and educate parents, we can reverse this trend and grow the beautiful game.
The guiding principles of the Canadian Soccer Excel program is on “achieving technical perfection” by developing players across four areas of development: physical, technical/tactical, mental, and social/emotional. In this webinar, Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt focused on the social/emotional development of youth and highlights how proficiency in this area has a direct impact on player performance and retention.
In this webinar, led by Dave Kelly, Regional Manager of Player Development, the webinar explores GAG Methodology.
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During the webinar the rationale behind the retreat line, the procedure and also training activities will be covered. This is designed to help coaches, players, parents, game leaders and match officials understand more about the retreat line.
Designed for Club and District Technical Directors and coaches this exciting technical presentation will focus on the improvements that have been made in the game in both the competition model and in the practice environment that will allow our young, developing players to be more confident and comfortable in possession of the soccer ball. The programs that have been created and implemented in Ontario's player development program will be highlighted.
It will also explains the Ontario Soccer's direction on recreational and development soccer programs and the benefits that this will have in player development.
The webinar is designed to explain the reason behind each of the four matrices, outdoor, recreational and development and Indoor recreational and development. The indoor matrices are a relatively new addition and will be mandatory for indoor season 2015/16. The indoor matrices were developed to very closely follow the outdoor matrices putting young players in the best environment for their development. Each element of the matrices are explored and a full explanation on the rationale on implementation explained.
This Player Development webinar, which features Carl Horton, the OSA's Regional Manager of Player Development is about the structure and implementation of the Player Development Model. Practical examples are shown to allow clubs and coaches to create practice environments that are player centred and will enhance coach education
This webinar has been created by John O'Sullivan, founder of the Changing the Game Project and a recent speaker at the OSA Soccer Development Conference. In this session, O'Sullivan speaks about how we can move towards creating a culture of engagement, instead of forcing specialization. A must for anyone in the business of youth development.
This player development webinar explains the pilot program being delivered in DRSA and HDSA in summer 2016 where U-8 development program coaches or managers will rate the opposing programs parents, coaches and players on their behavior during each game. This monitoring program will recognize those teams who display exceptional game day behavior from all involved.
The webinar will help Coaches, Managers and parents understand the specifics of the program, the process and the benefits.
The webinar is being delivered by Ontario Soccer's Regional Manager of Player Development, Billy Wilson.
This webinar, 4 Corner Holistic Development Model, is intended for Coaches and Technical Directors and will include techniques in a practice environment, how to implement the 4 corners at your club and build on the previous May 27 webinar.
Having children compete and practice in the correct environment is crucial to their development as young people and soccer players. To assist our membership in supporting the players and ensuring they are in the right environment for their development a new resource has been created. The resource titled, Fast Tracking and Player Development, will help explain to Clubs, Coaches and parents when it’s best for young players to practice and compete with older children or when its best to continue to compete with children their own age. This new member’s resource is complete with the development stage specific evaluation forms that are required to be completed by club Technical Directors and signed by parents, the player and their District Association.
This webinar is explaining the pilot program for 2016 in EODSA, DRSA and HDSA. When a team is leading by 4 goals the opposing team have the option of adding a player to make the game more competitive and a better learning environment for all involved. This webinar will explain the program and process. Designed for Technical Directors, Coaches and Parents.
The webinar will help parents understand their role in grassroots soccer, and give tips and advice in making their child's soccer experience a fun and beneficial one.
Let Us Play is a pilot program for all Districts in 2016. When a team does not have a sufficient number of players to start a game, players can be borrowed from the opposition so that a game may take place. This webinar will explain the program and process. It is designed for Technical Directors, Coaches and Parents.