Jacob Brown

It's live. The Diamond Code pathway is now one purchase.

The U9 U10 7v7 Development System and the new U11 U12 9v9 Development System, together.

If you coach anywhere from U9 to U12, this is the whole road. 7v7 builds the player. Brave on the ball, scanning, deciding. 9v9 takes that player and teaches them the game. Real positions, real structure, breaking lines, defending as a unit.

Same method start to finish. Games, not drills. Problems, not lectures. Every week has a job, a habit, and a cue, with the session cards already built. You print, you coach.

This is the system I run as a Director of Coaching, built against how the best academies in the world develop players and tested on real fields with real rosters. Eight full seasons of curriculum, in one piece.

You know your roster. First practice is coming. Walk in with the season already built.

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I will go further. Again this is for youth soccer, not the pro game.

If you can't coach six- and seven-year-olds, how much of your coaching success is actually your coaching ability, and how much is the ability of the players you're coaching?

If you can’t coach 6-7 year olds correctly.

You can’t coach.

Elections are honestly some of the most interesting times to me, but also some of the most exhausting.

I’ve always enjoyed politics and a good debate, especially with people who see things differently than I do. But it seems like we’ve gotten to a point where disagreeing with someone automatically makes them ignorant, hateful, or a bad person.

Every election, social media becomes a constant stream of anger and insults. And what’s sad is that people can’t even feel comfortable sharing their actual opinions anymore. You have to wonder how a current or future employer might react, or whether someone will judge your entire character based on one political opinion.

Meanwhile, I don’t believe either political party truly has our best interests at heart. We’re so busy fighting each other that even common-sense changes rarely happen because everything has to be a political battle.

I miss when people could disagree, have a good debate, and still respect each other afterward.

I wish we’d spend less time arguing on social media and more time actually talking to each other. I think we’d find we have a lot more in common than we realize.

Yamal not winning makes today a great day