Inside The Game
Inside The Game
Podcast Description
Inside The Game is a weekly podcast with Stuart Sharples, hosted by Steel United, designed to support coaches, players, and parents by breaking down key topics from our coaching curriculum. Each episode dives into a fundamental aspect of the game, explores a core value that shapes player development, and features a special guest offering insights on the weekly theme. Whether you're on the pitch or in the stands, this podcast will help you understand the game on a deeper level. Let’s step inside the game!
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on soccer coaching techniques, player development values, and tactical skills, with episodes covering topics like organization in coaching, adapting session plans, and executing breaking lines. Specific examples include exploring the role of respect in organizational skills and teamwork in tactical execution, providing listeners with actionable insights applicable on and off the pitch.
Inside The Game is a weekly podcast with Stuart Sharples, hosted by Steel United, designed to support coaches, players, and parents by breaking down key topics from our coaching curriculum. Each episode dives into a fundamental aspect of the game, explores a core value that shapes player development, and features a special guest offering insights on the weekly theme. Whether you’re on the pitch or in the stands, this podcast will help you understand the game on a deeper level. Let’s step inside the game!
In the final episode of Season 1 of Inside The Game, we bring our spring coaching series to a close with a focus on attacking overloads—how clever movement off the ball helps create numerical superiority in key moments. We break down how coaches can recognize the spare player, design high-repetition training activities, and maximize ball-rolling time to sharpen tactical understanding in the final third.
Using insights from top teams like Bayer Leverkusen in the 2024/25 season, we explore how coordinated rotations and third-man runs can unlock organized defenses. You’ll hear coaching strategies on session setup, intervention styles, and what to look for during games and post-match debriefs.
Our guest, Andrew Broadbent, SVP of Steel United and Team Steel, shares how reflection, values-based leadership, and team culture all contribute to long-term development. This episode also highlights our final core value of the season: Respect—not just for teammates and the game, but for the roles and efforts that often go unnoticed.
Whether you're preparing for summer tournaments or planning your next season, this episode is full of practical advice and big-picture thinking. Tune in, reflect, and help us wrap up a successful first season of Inside The Game.
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