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#26 Coach Dave Wright - The Reality of the UK Academy System
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This week, I’m pleased to bring on one of the best thinkers, let alone coaches of youth sport that I’ve ever come across. Dave Wright.
Dave has a diverse CV, that includes being an academy football coach with professional clubs in England as well as Australia, running his own youth development business, working for the Oceania Football Confederation and consulting for HSPNZ in our HPAD space.
Every time I hear Dave speak on various podcasts I get enriched, and this episode was no different.
Lets go!
Dave Wright Bio
Player:
- Junior and Youth Football in Auckland, New Zealand
Coach:
- United Soccer 1 (NRF) U14 Boys/National Women’s League (2007)
- Football NSW (2008-2010)
- Maccabi FC Sydney (2009-2012)
- Academy Coach (2013 – 2019)
- Brentford FC (various age groups)
- Fulham FC (various age groups)
- Football Victoria Federation U15 head coach
- Melbourne Victory U20s
- High Performance Sport New Zealand, HPAD consultant (2019 – 2022)
- Birkenhead United AFC Director of Coaching (2022 – present)
- Westlake Boys High School (2023 – present)
- Frist XI Head Coach
- Auckland Premier League Champions (2023 & 2024)
- ISF Football Word Cup (2024)
- NZ Secondary School National Champions (2023)
- Frist XI Head Coach
o Oceania Football Confederation (2023 – current)
- High Performance Consultant
Coaching Qualifications:
- FA Youth Award (2015)
- UEFA A Licence (2016)
- OFC Pro Licence Candidate (2024)
Business:
o Co Founder of Player Development Project (2014 – present)
o Owner of two black sheep cafe 2008-2013
o City of Sydney Cafe of the Year (2010/2011)
o City of Sydney Small Business of the Year (2011)
Chapters -
0.15 Gareth & Daves’ connection story
3.15 The decision to focus on coaching relatively early in life
9.00 Business and Hospo learnings
14.00 Moving to the UK
26.45 Pulling back the curtain on the UK academy environment
52.30 Working at HPSNZ and with HPAD guru Ken Lynch
1.02.30 Evolu
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Chapters
1. #26 Coach Dave Wright - The Reality of the UK Academy System (00:00:00)
2. The decision to focus on coaching relatively early in life (00:03:15)
3. Business and Hospo learnings (00:09:00)
4. Moving to the UK (00:14:00)
5. Pulling back the curtain on the UK academy environment (00:26:45)
6. Working at HPSNZ and with HPAD guru Ken Lynch (00:52:30)
7. Evolution plans for Birko & Westlake Boys (01:02:30)
8. Player Development Project (01:06:00)
9. Rapid Fire Questions (01:08:50)
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