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"I am passionate about inspiring people to achieve their potential"
Guy's experience
2009-Present
In 2009, Guy established Pro Football Support (PFS), to work alongside a number of leading professional football club academies, providing sport science and strength and conditioning support.
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During this time, PFS has provided support to 33 of the 44 Category 3 professional football club academies, since the start of EPPP.
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Since 2013, PFS has delivered the Premier League benchmark fitness testing provision with all Category 1 and Premier League Clubs (32 in total) across the U12-U23 age groups.
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Guy has an enviable track record in supporting his full time and part time staff members in advancing into full time roles at professional football clubs either with their 1st team or academy age groups.
Guy has also supported 5 staff members to achieve PhD qualifications in professional or academy environments.
international
Over the last 15 years, Guy, through his PFS business, has delivered programmes across the globe.
This includes a significant contract in China with the introduction of football knowledge, sport science and technology, to schools and to aid the development of Chinese football academies. This also includes programme delivery in Belgium, Holland, Spain, Germany and Hungary.
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Player & coacH
training app
Our TRAINING APP is perfect for players and coaches and has been designed to support your development by providing a range of information across a number of areas:
We also provide MENTORING for coaches through the app by UEFA "A" Licence coaches Guy Parkin & John Williams
Also provided is a COMMUNITY FORUM on the app
TRAINING PLANS:
120+ plans focusing on TEAM PLANS - Age Groups & Sessions + INDIVIDUAL PLANS -Age Groups & Maturation Levels
VIDEO LIBRARY:
240+ videos relating to MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT, FOOTBALL FITNESS & TECHNICAL SKILLS
TACTICAL INFORMATION:
Detailed support relating to POSITION SPECIFIC & GAME FORMATIONS - including WEEKLY TACTICAL UPDATES
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MENTAL DEVELOPMENT:
Tailored programmes relating to PLAYER CONFIDENCE & BUILDING MOTIVATION
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2004-2009
Guy started his full time role at Scunthorpe United in 2004.
His roles included Assistant Academy Manager, Head Coach of the U16s, Assistant Coach of the U18s and 1st Team Fitness Coach.
One of Guy's major achievements was enabling Scunthorpe United to be the 2nd academy in the country to be based at a school with a 4G pitch. Scunthorpe United followed Watford FC who were the first, based at Harefield School.
Whilst working at Scunthorpe United, Guy was inspired by visits to AC Milan and Juventus.
Both visits included watching the academy age groups and the first teams train, discussions with the first team players and coaching staff, and a 1:1 session with Cesare Maldini, the Italian manager at the time.
From these experiences, Guy set up an arrangement with Stefano Eranio, for 3 trips over 3 years, to take young English players to Italy to be coached by the AC Milan coaches. Each event saw 14 players take the trip to Italy to have a fantastic coaching experience.
While working full time in football, Guy spent evenings at Leeds Beckett University receiving a distinction in the MSc in Sport & Exercise Science.
Guy's passion has always been to aid the development of academy footballers and achieving this qualification underlined this commitment and supported his objectives.
Guy completed his UEFA "A" Licence in this period.
Achieving a score of 81% for his 11 v 11 coaching drill, this was the highest score in the 2006 UEFA "A" qualification.
This course was a fantastic achievement as only eight out of the thirty six attendants passed the course. This moved Guy’s tactical passion for football even further forward.
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2002-2003
During this period, Guy worked full time at Sheffield Wednesday FC.
The roles that he undertook were U10 Age Group Coach, U16 Assistant Age Group Coach and 1st Team Skill Development Coach.
This was a great opportunity to work on technical and skill development across young age groups and also first team professional players.
During this time, Guy also finished his BSc Sport & Exercise Science qualification at Leeds Beckett University.
Whilst working full time in football, the knowledge gained from the sports science studies, helped him improve his coaching for players.
Guy also completed his UEFA "B" qualification during this time period. This was Guy's first major challenging football qualification.
This built Guy's football coaching confidence and enabled him to provide more detailed tactical coaching sessions across the different age groups.
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1998-2001
This was Guy's first opportunity to work at a top level academy with fantastic facilities.
Here, Guy used his skill development knowledge, obtained through playing and being committed to the Coerver Coaching skill development process.
Guy undertook skill development coaching with the U7 & U8 age groups at Sheffield United. This group included an 8 year old Harry McGuire.
During this timeframe, Guy also managed the Coerver Coaching arrangement in West Yorkshire, creating events for players to develop their technical skills. This was delivered at schools, clubs and academies. Guy delivered numerous personal training sessions, using content created by Alf Galustian (co-founder of Coerver) and former Chelsea great Charlie Cooke.
This also included teaching school PE staff at regional organised events on how to instruct technical football development sessions for their pupils
Guy's coaching career started at Halifax Town with the U13 age group. The role involved coaching two nights per week and undertaking the games on a Sunday morning against all other Northern-based academies.
Guy worked incredibly hard on improving both the training and game facilities for all academy age groups.
This opportunity started Guy's drive to help the development of academy players.
Guy's Qualifications
Uefa a licence 2006
Academy Managers Licence 2006
FA Learning Psychology for soccer level 5 2007
Uefa B licence 2003
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MSc Sport & Exercise science 2006
Achieving a distinction.
bSc Sport & Exercise science 2005
First Class Honours
Guy's team's guided principles are
Inspiring
We see the potential in sports people, and identify how they could improve.
We share this compelling vision with them and support them in achieving their potential.
Achieving
We hold the bar high and strive for quality.
We focus on peoples' strengths and support them in using their talents, in order to maximise potential and create a culture of excellence.
Motivating
We are passionate about motivating people to achieve their maximum potential.
We will persist and persevere to aid their development and motivate them to achieve high performance.
Improving Performance
We strive for high performance, work hard to achieve it and drive to produce results.
We are flexible and can change course strategically to get the best possible performance.
Performance Strategies
We identify and develop alternative ideas and strategies to take things to the next level.
We experiment, take risks and explore options to create breakthroughs.
Sport Excellence
We have an innate understanding of what determines sport excellence.
We are also able to plan, initiate and deliver a developmental road map that encourages elite sports performance.
guy's achievements
in numbers
>47
Years of sporting passion, inspired by watching his first professional match at Old Trafford in 1976.
>10,000
Academy players supported
>25
Years of working full time in professional football.
72
Professional Football Academies worked with.
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