INTERACTIVE COACHING WORKSHOPS & TRAINING
About Golden Game Soccer
Golden Game Soccer provides fully interactive football coaching courses. The workshops are primarily aimed at coaches, but also relevant to anybody with a role, or passionate interest, in youth or adult football. The courses have been created by George Lappas and combine key insights, information and practices acquired from over 20 years coaching and scouting.
Match Performance, Evaluation and Coaching - Level 1
Using video technology and footage of professional players from a variety of levels, participants are guided through a full range of considerations when visually assessing players. Attendees learn a unique methodology to identify and evaluate individual qualities for players of all ages and abilities, before developing an appropriate coaching strategy to improve performance. Crucially, coaches are equipped with the skills, tools and resources to create effective, targeted and thoroughly engaging training sessions.
Delivered live or as webinars, this interactive workshop provides participants with the opportunity to examine, explore and discuss real life coaching situations in order to find practical solutions that can be applied in their own coaching environments.
George Lappas is a Uefa A Licence (Level 4) football coach, a Level 3 Personal Trainer, & has a diploma in Sports Psychology.
He has been coaching for 20 years with a track record of developing many professional & international football players including: Raheem Sterling (Manchester City FC, England), Jacob Murphy (Newcastle United), Joshua Murphy (Cardiff City), Osman Kakay (QPR, Sierra Leone), Uche Ikpeazu (Cardiff City).
George has made coaching study visits to the Academies & Senior squads at PSV Eindhoven, Ajax & Panathinaikos FC.
He has worked in the First Team set-up at West Ham United, Millwall FC, Wigan Athletic FC, Leyton Orient & Barnet as a Senior Opposition Analyst & in Player Recruitment. Most recently, George provided Oppositional Analysis for the Malawi National Team for the AFCON 2022, helping them beat Zimbabwe, draw against the eventual winners Senegal, & reach the last 16 of the African Nations for the first time in the country's history.
Barnet FC
Leyton Orient FC
Wigan Athletic FC
Millwall FC
Malawi FA
Course Testimonials
In this excellent ‘hands on’ workshop, George guides coaches through the full range of attributes and skills to be considered when assessing players. He welcomes ideas, draws out detail and – crucially – equips coaches with tools for improving players of any age in whatever position they choose to play. To this end, the workshop perfectly complements the many skill development ideas and materials George and Golden Game Soccer already provide. As useful for coaches of U7s as it is for adults. (Ian Cater, U8s coach).
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This course is ideal for both football coaches and football addicts who wish to put themselve in the shoes of a professional coach. It gives you an idea of the way a full-time coach improves players by evaluating, observing and then putting a plan together to improve that player. The course is applicable to those working with squads and players at all levels and those attending will come away with a whole armory of drills, ideas and thoughts that they can take back to their footballing world. Thoroughly enjoyable, whilst at the same time a chance to learn how the pros work. (Tim Firmin, U8s & U16 grassroots coach).
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This is a great course where you learn how to review player strengths and weaknesses in a structured way, and then consider how to apply appropriate coaching to match that player's individual needs, using video technology. George is a friendly and insightful trainer and the course allows you to really think about how you might coach players in a different way to better meet their needs. (Liam Foweather, U8s grassroots coach).
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If you want to improve your ability to analyse players’ strengths and weaknesses and plan sessions to target them then this course is a must. Warning – the way you watch Match of the Day will change forever! (Lee Stewart, U8s grassroots coach).
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Really useful course that has helped me look at how I coach, support and develop my squad in a different light. There’s lots in here for coaches of all abilities, experience and no matter what kind of squad they’re working with – be it age or ability level. I found it fascinating to get a glimpse into George’s mind and – for a couple of hours – get to see how the top coaches do things and pretend I was one of them. Golden Game Soccer has found a way to condense huge amounts of information into bite sized chunks that all coaches can use. (Toby Parker, U8s grassroots coach).
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A fantastic introduction into the analytical aspects of player assessment and subsequent coaching points. A course with good structure that builds the learning through explanation and practical case studies to embed the understanding. (Stuart Dawson, U8s and U11s grassroots coach).
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