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Special Post: Choosing the Right Programme

Informed Practitioner in Sport

EDITOR’S NOTE: To celebrate the imminent release of the new title ‘ Sports Parenting: Negotiating the Challenges of the Youth Sports Journey to Help Kids Thrive ’ we are sharing this special post. In this chapter we aim to provide parents with some criteria to guide the search.

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Questions on Talent Development

Informed Practitioner in Sport

What are the key principles of youth athlete development and how do we best structure this? How do we identify, nurture and develop talented youth athletes and what are some of the common issues you encounter in this process? The bottom line is we don’t know with any real certainty what a young performer might be capable of.

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David Hillier Interview: Life after football

The Sporting

David Hillier talks to us openly about his life after football, support from the game, and the realities of being a firefighter He made 143 appearances for Arsenal, helping them win the First Division, the FA Cup and the League Cup; and then he walked away to become a firefighter. David Hillier’s career is extraordinary, to say the least.