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Latest Sport Data Frontier

Earlier in the season, I blogged on how we could adapt the brain-training that saw Liverpool Football Club win England's first silverware of the year on offer. Based around the ability to train players' brains in taking penalties [initial [https://salespodder.com/accuracy-training-cup-winners/] & update [https://salespodder.

Madrid Maestros Mentality

Not the "best" side. Yet the winners. Real Madrid mugged Liverpool to the top European club football crown at the weekend. Reminiscent of Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan somehow nabbing the 'big cup' back in 2010. In the aftermath, one of the victorious players spoke

Sport Presenter Pace

> Working with Des Lynam gave [Steve Rider] a blueprint of how to present sport. "The lesson I learnt from Des was ‘the greater the tension, the slower the delivery." A clip from a 2022 interview with a former English tv sport anchorman, now compiling an archive of

I Can Train Penalty Shooting

Really?! That was the cold pitch of a German neuroscientist to an elite football coach a couple of years back. Here's how the grateful manager relayed that exchange, in the aftermath of a victory he dedicated to them. > "Neuro11 got in contact with us two years

Seneca Evolution

> Luck is a place where Planning meets Opportunity. That was a phrase writ large on a flipchart at the start on one of my first ever days of solution sales training. It has become core to my approach. I do believe in Luck, as such, as part of this

Latest in White Ball Hotseat Builds on 4 Values

So England's men's cricketers in the shortened forms have a new coach. Aussie Matthew Mott moves alongside long-time friend (who he mentored in coaching too, perhaps), Kiwi Brendan McCullum over at his new rock-bottom red-ball charges. Several injuries robbed England of World Cup glory at last

11 Relentless Drivers From Rugby World Cup Winning S&C Coach

Welshman Aled Walters helped the Boks mug the English for the 2019 Crown. As Strength and Conditioning coach (the S&C of this post's title), he's had two decades of elite globe-trotting experience. Currently contributing towards the resurgence of English club side Leicester, I read

Cricket Captain Think Ahead Art

> “Captaincy is the ability to think ahead of play, not be left responding to it.” As the latest saviour of English cricket takes the helm, one of the many broadsheet opinion pieces cited this eminent wisdom. Courtesy of the sage that was Richie Benaud. Despite being Australian, much loved

Your Manifesto Client

Well, yesterday's crunch match was a thriller. Savour two teams in such elite, prolonged and era-defining rivalry. The football match - the prelude to which prompted yesterday's [https://salespodder.com/worlds-best-football-coach-understands-folly-of-chasing-results/] post - ended in an honourable 2-2 draw. Although as a neutral, I think it&

Trophies Themselves Don't Create Special Happiness

Spaniard Pep Guardiola has redefined football. Now in a battle of the ages with rival boss, German Jurgen Klopp, the pair pit wits against each other later today. Surely the current best two sides in the world. Manchester City host Liverpool in what is unsurprisingly dubbed this season's