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 Season 3 finale of Inside The Game, host Stuart Sharples explores the theme Life Behind The Lens — taking a unique look at youth soccer through the eyes of the people capturing the moments that define the game. Our curriculum topic is Overloads, and our core value this week is Commitment.
We take a deeper look at overloads in the modern game and how top teams intentionally create numerical advantages through movement, positioning, and teamwork. Stuart breaks down real match examples from the professional game, including how teams like Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool create overloads centrally and in wide areas to break pressure and create chances. He also shares practical ways coaches can teach overloads within their sessions through small-sided games, positional play, wide-area combinations, and decision-making exercises that encourage players to recognize and exploit advantages together.
This week’s guest is Brian Seay, the official photographer and videographer for Steel United, who shares a completely different perspective on the game from behind the lens. Brian reflects on the moments that stand out most in youth soccer, the emotions he’s naturally drawn to capturing, and the hidden moments many people on the sidelines never notice. He also discusses how storytelling, media, and visual content help build culture, preserve memories, and showcase the commitment shown throughout the youth game every single day.
🎧 Step Inside The Game one final time this season for an episode focused on teamwork, storytelling, and the memories that make youth sports truly special.
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