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Coach Quote by Graham Potter

“I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.” quote by Graham Potter — Download Open image

“I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.”

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Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a…

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The profile is to find if someone can perform in the Championship and help you win, and also play in the Premier League because…

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I had five years in the university sector which was a time where I could make my mistakes, develop with the students and players…

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My playing career that was a bit up but mostly down. I played in the Premier League at Southampton but most of my career…

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Sometimes it helps to see the world through someone else's eyes.

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You cannot win all the time and, often, we don't win that much. You have to have something and I think if we can create an environment where people genuinely think that we are trying to help them, trying to improve them and make them better, then OK, maybe they will try a bit harder, and do a bit better…

My unglittering football career came to a halt at the age at 30, and I had to embark on a coaching career: 14 years…

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But concepts around how a team functions, the importance of the relationship between football and the person, how you develop both, are always valid.

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We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes…

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My mum had always pressed on me to continue my education, and it was just the volatility of sport in terms of not being…

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I improved enormously, on and off the pitch, over that year at Swansea.

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I was at Leeds Carnegie, the ninth tier. And I was coaching students. There would have been hundreds of managers with more experience. So…

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