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This is the Silver Fox Hustle Podcast

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. Hello

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and welcome back . We are on the

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football talk episodes of the

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Silver Fox Hustle podcast , and today it's

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all about football and it's all about

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coaching and in

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recent times , the past few months , we've

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been talking about we saw

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this in the news , social media

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about specialised coaching

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, and one example is the set-piece

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coach of Arsenal , as you all might

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know and might agree with or might

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not agree with his methods , but

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today in the studios we have

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someone special . He is from the

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Individual Football Training

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Asia . He is the Technical

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Director of the Individual Football Training

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Asia and he's going to talk about Specialized

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Training , Individual Training and

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what are the benefits

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. And before we start , don't

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Works . Now just a little bit about IFT

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. Ift is Individual Football Training

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Asia . It is an academy that focuses

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on the individual performance development

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of football players and its main purpose

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is to develop players' skills and

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empower his range of abilities that

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enables him to become a more complete

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player . Now , that is all in words

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, but today in the studios we have the

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technical director of IFT

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Asia , Mr Igor

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Kvelio . Igor , good to see

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you , my friend , Hi .

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Shashi , how are you ? Everything okay .

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I'm very good . How are you ?

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Good to see you too .

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How are you ? It's been a very , very hot day .

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Yeah , and it's hot

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every day in singapore , so yeah

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I love it .

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I love it yeah , just just a little bit before

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we start . Right , you have a four

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month old baby . Three months

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, oh , three months , sorry .

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And then how is it sunday ? She

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make , she make four months and

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and how .

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How is it ? How has it been so far ?

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Amazing , amazing . It was the

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best experience in the world being

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a father . And

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then another adventure bringing

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the family here , the wife

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and the daughter . It's

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been amazing , beautiful . They

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love Singapore , we

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are settled and the place

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that we are is amazing . Singapore

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is wonderful to raise kids

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, so yeah , everything

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okay .

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Beautiful Igor , and you know , before we

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start talking about IFT , asia and all right , let's

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talk a little bit about yourself as well . What

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are your experiences back home , when

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probably your playing experience and , of course , your coaching

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experience ? Just talk a little bit about that yeah

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, I was .

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I'm laughing . It's funny because yesterday

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I speak with a , with a

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player , and I was telling

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the mistakes that I do , like

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when I was professional players . It's a

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like a

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lesson that can I give to

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the players , because I make a lot of mistakes when

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I was a professional player . When

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I don't have the perfect

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life , I don't

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worry about what I eat , I

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don't make sacrifices

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for

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being a football player . So now

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we are speaking a lot of what the players

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have to do and everything . So

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in my time maybe

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I could get higher level , but

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because I like to go

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out , friends don't make like

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the sacrifice that every

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professional have to do it , because they have

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to do a lot of sacrifice . If you want to be a football

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player and I don't

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, I don't do it that . So I

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think that it was my problem and I

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can give like self-experience to the

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, to the players stays a top break , a top club

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in the in Porto , my formation

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. Then I

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play like a lot of years in the

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professional leagues and then

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, like on the 18

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, I Decide

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, okay , I'm gonna keep going like the

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play football , but let me

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try to do to be football coach

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. And then since 18 , I'm

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, I'm , I'm being like

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a football coach until

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now , 39 years old 18 years

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old , you started coaching .

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yes , wow , and and I

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I think with that alone there's

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been lots of experiences , I'm sure coaching

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as well as playing and I I like what you said

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. I really like what you said at the beginning

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. Right off the bat , you spoke about mistakes

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. I think

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we all learn from mistakes

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and I think , with your experience of making

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mistakes , when you

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share it with your players whom you are coaching

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right now , I think that comes in very , very handy

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. It is helpful .

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I really make a lot of mistakes , yeah , and

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if you , when

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you talk about experience , it's

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like that , it's the experience

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that like

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the knowledge that you

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get when you make mistakes , when you do something . That

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is not the way that you you get when you make mistakes when you do something . That is not the way that you , you

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want . So , when you call

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this player , don't have like experience

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, is that is making mistakes

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sometimes . Again , I'm

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gonna say , when you talk to players , they

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have a free of making mistakes , but making

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a mistake is good for the player , so they're going

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to learn from that mistake , they're

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going to learn how to do it right

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. And then it's experience . When

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you call about the experience , yeah , wonderful .

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Now let's get to it

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right . You want to speak about individual

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football training , asia specifically

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, and what are the benefits of joining

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a program , a session

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, with IFT . Now just talk us through a

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little bit about IFT itself , ift

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Asia , what you guys do and

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, in general , the kind of training that you do .

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Okay , I have to come back and

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explain a little bit our history

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. Eft like become

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a company that was

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was formed by three , three owners

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, three owners that have like a

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lot of experience , and they like they

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collect parts of

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football or lessons of football

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, knowledge of football from all

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europe , like german

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, like spain , yeah

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, england , and and

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then they create the EFT

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methodology Okay , very important , the

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Portuguese Knowledge

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, m2 , okay , and then , with the

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experience , with everything , they

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create the EFT methodology . It

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was like 2013

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. So a long way

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that we have a

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path . That was very , very difficult

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because in that time , individual

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training no one thinks in individual

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training like the clubs think

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that we are interfering in the , in

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the , the work of them . So

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it was a struggle , right , a

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big struggle , but then we get

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it . Then the clubs understand the benefits

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that we can give to the , to the teams

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, to the players , and then in

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2022 , we

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come to to Singapore , right , and

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then the established here . They

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like the , our work . We

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been coming here for three

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years like camps and clinics

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and individual trainings in holidays

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, and now , since August , we are

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here permanently and sharing

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the knowledge with everyone Beautiful

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.

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So officially , last August

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2024 , you've been here

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and you've been seeing the scene and we're going to talk a little

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bit about what you've seen so far and what we

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know , what we can improve and so on . And

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listen , I I like about you know

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, the coaching bit , the individual coaching bit , and

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and I'm also a coach as well and I'm I'm

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a coach developer as well , but I want to talk about

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you know , this is very important the quality of coaching

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as well . Right ? So , with

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an ift asia coach , uh

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, the coaches who are with you guys , how

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, what kind of certification do you get ? Are you all

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? Do you have like an internal

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IFT coaching certificate ? Or

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you have that general UEFA

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, you know ?

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okay , it's like this for

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being an individual , an

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EFT coach , okay , we have to pass

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a high formation . Okay , over

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there a long hours like

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seeing the trainings , long

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hours of formation

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, then share the

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content of the trainings , like

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trying to make drills

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and then speak with the older

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person . So for

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being a EFT coach , coach , you

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need one , two years of formation

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, being there , like , because

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then our value is understanding

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the player , see what the player

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is doing wrong , see where we

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can improve right , try to like decompose the movement of the

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player . Try to like decompose the

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movement of the player , how

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the player is going to be better

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doing this or that . They have to understand

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. So this is little

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details that only with experience

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we're going to get it , of course . And

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then of course the owners

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like share that experience . We have

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formation . Then the older coaches

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start to give , give formation

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to . They share the knowledge and then

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of course is like a

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individual , like experience

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that we can bring from every

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coach to our mythology . So every

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coach like

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put a little thing

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in the mythology of EFT . So

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everyone is bringing new things

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and the mythology is getting higher and higher

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and higher .

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I just want to ask you this . I think , from what you said

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right , you need to understand

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the players , of course , and you need to understand the game

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itself , because you are then

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coaching players in specific roles

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and positions . Is it safe to say that

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then the coaches at IFT

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Asia and IFT in general has

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had experience playing the game ?

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Tricky question . That

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is a conversation

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that he can take a lot

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of like ways , but in my opinion

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, of course , he

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has to be a football player or he has to

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have a experience of of football

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, uh , to

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try to understand , like sometimes

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, um , how

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, how you're gonna like teach a

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player to shoot or a skill if you

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cannot get it ? Yeah , because if you cannot

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get it , because if you cannot

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get it , how are you going to teach , how are you going to understand

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what is doing wrong or not

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? So I think every coach

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has to pass for the football

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life or the practice , the football

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. And then it's funny

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, here we still don't

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have that because we are starting , but in Portugal

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our formation is practical , so

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we make the drills

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, we try the drills that

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we we

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teach to the players , and then you have to

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understand . Only

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when you practice you're gonna understand what

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is wrong and if the drill is like

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suitable for the things that

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you want or not . So , yeah

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, I think it's very important for having

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a experience to be a coach I just want

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to touch on that and add on to that as well .

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I think what what ego just said as well , and I think it

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also impacts the realism

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of the session . You know , because

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if you don't know the game and then when you set , put

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out drills and and you know it could not be

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realistic sometimes , you know , and if you

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don't have the experience you wouldn't know . You know , and

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it's as simple as moving the

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marker just 5 metres , it changes the drill

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Completely , absolutely changes the drill and the objectives

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as well . So people at home and watching and listening

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to this , it is very important that you

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know we see this as well and that's

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a great point . I want to just touch a little bit on

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goalkeeping training . Obviously that's very

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specialized , very individualized . Is

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that coming soon to Singapore ?

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We are trying and in the camps

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we have the

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goalkeeper coaching . The

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demand in Singapore is not so

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big for us to bring a

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coach here just now , but we

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are trying to see that . We

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are trying . How can we

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put that in the EFT Asia ? Of course we

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don't have one year of existence

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here . Still , we

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are getting bigger and bigger and we want

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to bring that , but

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step by step Of course . Of course we

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cannot do

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a step bigger than we can handle

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and is a

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very specific

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place

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goalkeeper coach and

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I think he's a big gap here in Singapore

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. You don't have so many goalkeeper

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coach and I think he's going

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to be good if we can bring a goalkeeper

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coach .

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Yeah , I think , igor , you said it . You know , I think

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it's very specialized as well . And also

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, you spoke about the demands . At the moment

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, when Igor speaks about demand

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, it's like is there calls from people

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saying that you know , I want a goalkeeping ? I

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think it's very important , you know , I think it's

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very important .

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You know it's very important . You know I think it's very important . You know it's so specialized

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that I don't think it's only that it's important yeah yeah of course , everything

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is important . Okay , it's a specific

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position , but you

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can see this , sassi , if

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you are like talking about the specific

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position because of the goalkeeper , all of the

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other positions is specific . So

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why is important the individual coach

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, the specific coach for that position

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, for defender , for midfielder , for attacking

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, and if we can give

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, like specific training to

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each position , imagine how , how

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is the player improve ?

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absolutely , absolutely a very good . Now

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let's talk about here

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in Singapore . You know I think you've been here from

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August , like as in full time from August

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2024 . But I think you've been here before . You

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know I've seen you at the IFT Asia

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. You know the camps , you

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know , I've seen you and you've

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seen the scene in Singapore , the landscape in Singapore

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, the landscape in Singapore . What

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do you think is lacking here in Singapore in terms

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of football , specific

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stuff , you know , maybe I don't know in terms of positions

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, and is there anything that is lacking

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you feel ?

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OK , let me only say one thing , and

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I think it's important for the people understand

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this Every coach is

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not the owner of truth , okay . So

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in my opinion okay

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, I'm going to say my opinion and I like to

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have like conversation on football because I can like

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speak with other coaches , listen

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to what they have to do , and I think it's very

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, very good like share information . Yeah

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, so we only going to be

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better if we

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have more knowledge and with

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every coach , it doesn't

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matter the level we can learn . So

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I like to speak with coaches and

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I like very much this conversation that we have

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because we're going to learn everything

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every time like something new . In

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my opinion , again , like in Singapore

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, I think , little

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things that can change that

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is going to make Singapore

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level higher . First

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, the anger of the players . I think the

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players don't feel the

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passion . They go there , they play

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, but they really want

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to play , they really want to

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live the feel

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like better players , like winning

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. I don't feel . I feel like I

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speak with the players . Winning or losing is the same

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thing and it cannot be . They

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have to learn in winning

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and they have to learn how to lose , but they have

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to have the passion to lose , but they have to have the passion , the anger okay

16:45

they have to have , and I think

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that is a thing that the players

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don't have . Then I

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think the the quality of

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the league is not like a

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level like you have

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like higher teams and

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and lower teams , and then , if

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we can like , try

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to level the level of the

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clubs . The competition is going to be much

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better . So instead of like thinking

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that lower clubs , the higher clubs

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needs to

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lower the level . No the lower clubs

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have to keep up to

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the higher clubs and improve the level

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, so the competition is going to be more

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strong . So if

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you have like better players , better competition

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, the

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players , trainings are higher

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level , higher intensity . Of course

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they're going to

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improve , they're

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gonna improve . And then the , the coaches here , the coaches , the

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teams I don't know these , the , the culture look to a team

17:53

and they look okay , we're gonna win . They

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don't care about how , okay , so

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they don't focus on the individual player

18:01

. If the , the player doesn't like

18:03

touch the ball three or four times

18:05

, but the team wins , okay , it's

18:07

good , we win . And

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I think that is not the right way

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. I think the result

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, of course , is important . And if

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we can like improve

18:18

, winning the games , excellent

18:20

, okay . But if I leave

18:22

the field like , ok , I lose , but

18:25

my team improves , my team

18:27

plays , my team tries

18:30

to build up , tries to stay

18:32

with the ball , the players will get better

18:34

. And when the players get better , the level

18:36

is gonna be higher . And

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this is a long process , of course

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, but here , ok , sometimes

18:43

the most important is winning the games

18:45

. I think it's not the right mindset

18:47

that we have to have , especially

18:50

at the lower levels . Right , of course we

18:53

are speaking about formation . Okay

18:55

, of course , higher level you have to win now

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, it doesn't matter how

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Okay .

19:02

Igor has hit the nail

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in the head and

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I just want to echo that and this

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is my opinion , it's not Igor's opinion To

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all the clubs in the age groups

19:15

, the various age groups playing

19:18

in the SYL as well . We've

19:20

seen this , I've seen this personally . Sometimes

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I do wonder whether there's only two players

19:25

playing the team , because you

19:27

have a striker and you have a defender , and the defender

19:29

, who can kick the ball kick , not pass

19:31

kicks the ball up to the striker , the striker , who

19:33

can kick the ball as well , and he kicks the ball into the

19:35

net . So the players in the middle , you

19:38

guys , are not . So to the coaches , the

19:40

various coaches watching this as well , it is not a

19:42

criticism , it is an observation

19:45

, and you know it's how you take it as

19:47

well , because it's happening . It's happening

19:49

here in Singapore . So we've got to do better , the

19:51

coaches have got to do better . Now

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, how does IFT Asia come

19:56

into the picture ? Igor , you know we talk about I

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think you said this at the beginning . You know

20:01

when IFT started . You

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know when IFT started . You know teams are thinking this

20:06

guy is going to take . You know the team training

20:08

and how . So speak to

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us about how the individual

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training is going to fit into a team

20:14

, for example .

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I'm going to tell a story

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. A story , yes , a small story . In Portugal

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we have a player that works with us like three or four years . A story , a story , yes , a small story

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. Okay , in the Portugal . Okay , we have a player that works with

20:26

us like three or four years

20:28

and then he was called

20:30

to Benfica , one of the top top clubs

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in Portugal , and then the

20:35

Benfica like prohibit to

20:37

do external like training , not

20:39

individual , but external , every training

20:42

that he can do because they want to control . And

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he said , okay , I come to Benfica but I don't leave EFT , because the player that I am today

20:49

is because of EFT . Eft

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helped me reach here , so

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I want to keep improving with EFT . Or

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you let me keep training

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in EFT , or I don't come to Benfica . And

21:00

then Benfica like , okay , this

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is strange because we have everything

21:04

here , why you want to go there . And they

21:06

come to see the trainings and

21:08

after like two or three years , like

21:10

speaking with us and everything , we start to

21:12

working with Benfica . Instead of they don't

21:15

allow the players come start working with

21:17

the players on Benfica so they understand

21:20

, okay , the importance of EFT

21:22

in the players . Okay , and

21:25

here , okay , I

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don't feel that struggle because here

21:29

the culture of the clubs is different

21:31

. We have like , sometimes

21:34

, players playing

21:36

in the weekend for three clubs different

21:38

or three academies different , so

21:41

that like only

21:44

individual , like playing for

21:46

a club is not so , so

21:48

high here . But I

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feel like sometimes when you say I'm

21:53

in the FT and they look to you why

21:55

, why you are there , and our

21:57

job is only focused

21:59

on the , on the player and helping the teams . Because

22:01

if , if you have like three players that

22:03

improve in the FT , of course your

22:06

team is going to be better , okay , and

22:08

when they come , okay , we

22:10

work on specific players how

22:12

they shoot , how they control the ball , how

22:14

they're going to understand the game , how they're

22:16

going to think the game . We

22:19

don't work tacticals , we don't work

22:22

like what you're gonna do in the in

22:24

the team , because that is

22:26

the part of the team coach , okay , and

22:28

we don't want that . Yeah , we want to focus

22:30

on the player . And if the player like

22:32

come to us and he cannot shoot but

22:34

leave the training , learning to

22:36

shoot , of course the team is gonna improve

22:38

because the player in the game , yeah , he's gonna feel

22:40

like comfortable to shooting . Yes , okay

22:42

, and a lot of things that we

22:44

can improve the players and , of course

22:46

, improving the teams .

22:48

Wonderful . I think that's well put as well . So

22:50

it's more like you know a partnership

22:53

instead of you know quarreling and fighting

22:55

over the player and who's better and whether the club's

22:57

better and all . And you know clubs as well

22:59

. Let me only say the same thing clubs as well .

23:01

Let me only say the same thing in Portugal . Now

23:03

we start like , instead of , or

23:05

as well , like speaking

23:07

with parents and kids . How

23:10

can we improve ? Because sometimes we

23:12

don't see the games and we ask the feedback from the

23:14

parents and

23:16

the kids . But now , if we

23:18

know the coach and the team

23:20

, we go try to understand

23:23

what the coach , the idea of the coach , and the team . We go try to understand what the coach , the

23:25

idea of the coach , has the player , so the coach can

23:27

say , okay , I feel that this player

23:29

can work on this and okay

23:32

, let's , let's , let's do a

23:34

thing that is suitable for

23:36

the two win-win situation . Okay , I

23:38

help you and you help me , because you are

23:40

like trying to give me the feedback

23:42

of what happened in the game , and it's

23:44

very important .

23:50

It's . You know , I think the mentality has got to change as well with the clubs

23:52

. You know , I think the mentality and the you know , because

23:55

it's not about you alone , it's not

23:57

about you , it's about the player , because I think if

23:59

he improves , it's a win-win situation . Like you

24:01

say , the clubs improve , the team improves

24:03

as well . You know , the , the player that plays for the

24:05

club , that the team improves as well , and it

24:08

and it's it's very important as

24:10

well to note that when you are a club coach

24:12

, you are coaching the team . It's difficult

24:14

to get to coach an individual player

24:17

as well . It's , it's so , so difficult , unless the you

24:19

, you call okay , maybe four players come , uh

24:21

, half an hour before a training session . Okay , we do a little

24:23

bit more , you know so . So that's the only thing that they

24:25

can do . So it's , it's a , it's a win-win

24:27

situation . I have to say this and , uh

24:29

, you know how , how

24:32

do you make specific changes

24:34

, adjustments to a player to help him ? You

24:36

know , for example , like , like , uh , he

24:39

, he's weak at something , so you just concentrate

24:41

on that particular aspect let

24:45

me only a little aspect

24:47

before .

24:50

The information now everyone can

24:52

get it . You have on YouTube , you have

24:54

, like , the sites . Everyone

24:56

is easy to have information . So

24:58

it's easy to put a

25:00

training to do drills

25:03

. It's very easy now . But

25:05

the way that you conduct the drills

25:07

, the way that you adjust

25:09

the drills to your team because I

25:11

see a lot of young coaches and

25:14

young teams doing trainings that

25:16

Manchester City train , absolutely

25:18

you have the players of Manchester City to do the

25:21

drills . No , you

25:23

have kids . They are learning football , so

25:25

you have to adjust . You can take

25:27

a little bit of the exercise

25:30

, the drills , but you have to adjust . So I think

25:32

that is the experience , the knowledge

25:34

and everything Regarding

25:37

to a player . Everything

25:46

regarding to a player is is the details that we are

25:48

speaking are very like , small and sometimes

25:50

let me explain with a , with a situation

25:52

, and it's easy for me to explain

25:55

. Great , imagine a player comes and

25:57

to me and said this game

25:59

, my skills were not good and

26:01

I say , okay , but why

26:03

were not good ? Because when

26:06

I'm going to do the drill , the ball

26:08

is never on the place to do the skill . The

26:12

ball is never on the place to do the skill . Okay

26:14

, so before you do the skill

26:16

, you already have like difficulties .

26:18

Yes .

26:19

So the problem is not the skill . The problem is the dribbling that you yes , so the problem is not

26:21

the skill . The problem is the dribbling that you do

26:23

before . So the problem is not the skill . So

26:26

the skill is not bad , it was the dribbling

26:29

. Okay , when you control the ball , the ball goes

26:31

to the place that you want to do . The skill no

26:33

, I have always to adjust the ball with one

26:35

or two touches . So the problem is not the skill

26:37

, it's

26:40

the control of the ball . So that little details that we're going to like observe

26:42

and like teach the player and

26:45

try to read the movement and

26:47

explain . that is the difference

26:49

how they put the body when

26:52

they are shooting Right , if it's the correct

26:54

position or not . The

26:57

way they're going to control the

26:59

ball depends

27:02

on what they are seeing the scanning

27:04

, the reading of the game , the understanding

27:07

of the game . Imagine I have

27:09

a player , my teammate , is passing over

27:11

there , so I'm going to control the ball to

27:13

the other side . No , I have to do a

27:15

first touch . I got control over there , so

27:17

it's going to be easy for me to pass to that player

27:20

so little things that

27:22

make all the difference during the game

27:24

. Okay . So , and when

27:26

the player comes and is able

27:28

to do that , it feels more confident

27:31

. Okay , and you come here and

27:33

you be able to shoot and you shoot like

27:35

three shots on top corner

27:37

. They leave the training line confident

27:39

, the ego higher , and they go to the game

27:42

. Okay , and they go to the game and think

27:44

, oh , I do this in the FT , I'm

27:46

able to do it , I'm capable of doing this

27:48

, so let's do it . Okay , let's do it .

27:51

I just want to touch on what Ego said as well

27:53

, and I think it's perfect . You know , I think sometimes

27:55

coaches don't realize the

27:58

importance of small , tiny

28:00

details . You know he spoke

28:02

about the skill . Why

28:08

can't the player do a skill ? It's actually not the skill , it's the preparation before

28:10

doing the particular skill . Something went wrong before that , not at the particular skill , and

28:12

I spoke this at a recent coaching course as well . We

28:14

were doing a passing drill . But when you're doing a passing

28:16

drill , you can't talk only about a passing . You got to talk about

28:18

the weight of the pass , where the ball

28:20

is coming from , everything

28:23

else that has got to do with the

28:25

passing . It's not only the passing , you got to coach the other

28:27

stuff around it . So I

28:29

think coaches new coaches coming up you got to realize

28:32

this as well . The details is so , so

28:34

important and

28:45

you know people watching and listening to this . We are not going to have only one episode with Igor in this IFT Asia special

28:47

, because we're going to talk a lot more about certain things that's going to happen , different

28:50

aspects of the coaching

28:52

at IFT Asia as well . So this is not

28:54

the only episode Before

28:56

we go , igor . I just want to touch on this

28:58

thing right . So in a typical week

29:01

, for example , you take a player right . How

29:06

can you see the difference in terms of

29:08

the quality of the player or the improvement

29:11

? How much can you see after you know

29:13

? How long would you take

29:15

to see probably a little bit of improvement

29:17

?

29:18

That depends a little bit of the player too

29:20

. You have players that

29:22

learn the things

29:24

faster than the other . The

29:27

speed of the learning

29:29

is different . I

29:31

think , like one training per week

29:33

is a

29:36

compliment to the training of

29:40

the team .

29:41

Yeah , okay , I think it's very important

29:43

if you something

29:46

is stuck in your throat , no problem

29:48

.

29:49

I think it's very important that

29:51

the

29:53

kids have a

29:56

compliment during the week . Okay , why

29:59

? Because , imagine we

30:01

work on the skills on the dribble

30:03

, on the control of the ball , and

30:05

then they come and I say and

30:08

I ask how was the dribble

30:10

on the game , how you feel you

30:12

were comfortable doing the skill or not ? And

30:14

they share with me oh , coach , I

30:17

feel more confident . I don't feel so

30:19

. We're gonna start

30:21

working on other things when

30:24

they are comfortable doing

30:26

everything . So different ways

30:29

of learning , different speeds , different

30:31

time . And

30:33

I think that sometimes

30:38

the parents come here and

30:41

they say like , hey , coach

30:43

, my son cannot like skill

30:46

two players . And then , in front of the goalkeeper

30:48

, like , choose a side and shoot , okay

30:50

, nice , okay , how old is your son

30:52

? Seven years old . And I say , oh

30:54

, seven years old , and

30:58

he can control the ball perfectly . Oh

31:02

, sometimes he struggle to control the ball and he can make good passes

31:04

. Sometimes he miss . Okay , let's work

31:06

first to control pass , let's

31:08

let him feel comfortable like having

31:11

this , and then let's take to another

31:13

level . Okay , step by step , don't want

31:15

to to be like a bigger step

31:17

that you can do it . So I think that that

31:19

is the real

31:21

. Like speed , it

31:23

depends on the player , depends how comfortable

31:25

he feels

31:28

to doing because our

31:30

job is important . If they can apply on

31:32

the game , imagine the player

31:34

can come to our training and he do a perfectly

31:37

skill against the cone Right . But then in the game you ask to player and the father

31:39

he can do it . Our training and he do a perfectly skill against the cone right . But then in

31:41

the game you ask to player and the father he

31:43

can do it . No coach

31:45

, he struggles and he is afraid so

31:47

our job is not done . Our job is to

31:50

ok . We have to make sure that

31:52

you gonna do the skill in the game

31:54

, yeah , so we have to find ways

31:56

, yeah , to make it . So it

31:58

depends , right , very much of

32:00

the player .

32:01

I like what you just said . You need to

32:03

transfer what you do , the skills , whatever

32:05

skills you do in a training session and then do

32:07

it in a game , because all that spinning

32:09

and turning and your Anthony turns I

32:12

don't think it has a , you know in the game

32:14

. You don't do that in a game , you know in a proper game right

32:16

.

32:17

Sometimes you have to separate freestyle of

32:19

football .

32:21

Okay , in a proper game sometimes you have to separate freestyle of football , okay . Yeah , igor , before we

32:23

go , let's talk about the programs that

32:25

you are doing at the moment . At the moment , what classes

32:27

are you doing , and the venue as well maybe

32:29

we can spread the word out and

32:31

the different sessions

32:33

that you have a very important

32:35

thing .

32:36

We are trying to bring another coach

32:38

, so the demand is big , so beautiful

32:41

. Yes , we are , we are full

32:43

, yes , every day . The

32:45

other day it was funny

32:47

because a player like the

32:51

mom thinks that he's having

32:53

a lot of activity , okay

32:55

, okay . And then he

32:57

, the mom , say

32:59

to us okay , I'm having a break because

33:02

my kid is a lot of training , tennis

33:05

and everything , a lot of things . And then

33:07

the kid starts crying . You

33:09

know how difficult it is to have a slot with

33:11

Coach Igor . I

33:13

cannot miss that , I cannot lose that

33:15

. And then he come back . Right , right , right Because with

33:18

the conversation with the parents and I think

33:20

that is we

33:22

can take

33:24

out some exercise . But the EFT

33:27

training

33:29

is very important for the coordination

33:31

, for what he's learning

33:33

, the confidence and everything . So

33:35

another coach is coming because of the

33:37

demand is huge . We are now

33:40

in Calan cage . Okay , okay

33:43

, from two to eight .

33:44

Okay .

33:45

We have individual slots . We

33:47

have group slots for

33:50

different ages where

33:53

we can like . When

33:56

I speak with the parents . I know that

33:58

it's not easy to find the time-

34:00

yes , of course , when . I speak with the parents . I know that it's

34:02

not easy to find the time or more things to

34:04

come , but my advice is one

34:06

individual training and one group training

34:08

. Why I explain ? Because

34:10

individual we work okay with

34:13

the player , but it's difficult for us to control

34:15

how they're going to put in the

34:17

game or the training of the clubs because we are

34:19

not there . We don't have that voice

34:21

on your ear like saying go , go

34:23

, go , do it faster , what you

34:25

need to change and everything . And in the group

34:27

session , because it's a group and it's

34:29

the same age , we can work on 1v1

34:32

, on passing drills , on dynamics

34:35

of exercise . So my

34:37

advice is every time that , if you can , one

34:40

individual slot and one individual

34:42

group slot so you can work and

34:46

have the best of the two worlds . We

34:51

are in the process to find another pitch

34:53

, okay , just now , but for

34:55

the moment we are in the cage in

34:57

Calais so we can

34:59

reach IFTia via

35:02

the website , obviously yeah , we

35:04

have the website . Uh

35:06

, in the instagram . Okay , we have

35:08

to the the page , my page

35:10

, like igor coelho coach . Okay

35:13

, you can like , send a message and you we

35:15

share the link of the bookings . Regarding

35:18

to what you asked me , we're gonna have a

35:20

camp now in the holidays in March

35:23

. It's gonna be morning

35:25

sessions and then we

35:27

are preparing the June camp because

35:29

we want to be a big thing

35:31

here , like we

35:34

already are

35:36

, like three years ago . We're having all

35:38

time the sign-ups full

35:41

, more than six coaches here . Let's

35:43

try to bring more coaches to

35:45

open more slots and every

35:47

time we have holidays

35:49

, we

35:54

do camps clinics everything

35:57

that we can

35:59

do to improve and help the Singapore

36:02

football to grow up .

36:03

I think you know to parents watching

36:06

this as well . You know , yeah , it's a good way to just

36:08

link up in terms of trying to get slots

36:10

, but before that , I think , go and try out

36:12

the camps if you don't

36:15

have . And you know , because , trust

36:18

me , I think top quality coaches

36:21

the training sessions as well . And we talked and

36:23

Igor spoke about all the drills that you

36:25

can find on the YouTube . Yeah , probably , you could

36:27

probably experience

36:29

the same drills in the camp . But it's

36:31

not about the drills , my friend , it's

36:34

just about the way things are being done , the

36:36

quality . It's top notch . Please go and

36:38

try the camps if you want to really see

36:41

what it's like with

36:43

the coaches as well , and what they do

36:45

with the players , whether they can improve as well , because

36:47

I think it's great , top-notch . And I have

36:49

to say , my son went about , I think , three years ago , I think

36:52

about three years ago , and

36:54

he found it very useful . So please try

36:56

that out . Now , igor , I think we are

36:58

. You know , in the next few episodes

37:00

as well , we're going to talk more about what IFT

37:02

Asia can provide and try to improve

37:05

. You know the players , especially in Singapore , and the club

37:07

players as well . I think this message goes out

37:09

to the club players as well , who are playing for

37:11

your clubs . I think you guys

37:13

need that extra bit . If you think you need

37:15

that extra bit , you

37:22

know , just go and look for IFT Asia , because I truly believe that

37:24

it's going to help you individually and then you take it back to your clubs and

37:26

you know you , you're going to improve definitely we .

37:28

We have a lot of players that come to with

37:30

a goal like I want

37:33

to to go this trial and

37:35

get in , okay , and we work

37:37

on that and luckily

37:39

, with the work

37:41

that we are doing and the player are doing

37:43

, they are getting success and

37:45

when they go to trial they

37:47

get in . So for us it's like

37:51

a win , a win situation when

37:53

the player and the

37:55

happy of the smile

37:57

of the player that comes and say , coach

37:59

, I can do this skill in the game , coach

38:02

, I do this like the first touch and I shot

38:05

a good shot , so that

38:07

is our winning Can

38:09

provide that experience to the player , that

38:11

confidence , that

38:13

quality on the improvement of

38:16

the game of the player is wonderful

38:18

, wonderful .

38:19

Igor , thanks for coming down . I

38:21

am really looking forward to the next few episodes

38:23

as well . But you know it has been a wonderful

38:26

chat . You know . I think we echo the same message

38:29

about football , about coaching as

38:31

well , the quality of coaches . I think there's more to talk

38:33

about that's why we are here , yeah

38:35

absolutely , and we can speak about football , by the

38:38

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38:40

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38:58

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39:03

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39:36

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