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🚨 Coaches ‼️ Do your sessions focus on ⚽️ possession? Consider👇 👉 When to maintain possession & when to penetrate as a team 👉 When to speed up & slow down play 👉 when to keep the ⚽️ as an individual 👉 Moments to penetrate #sundayshare Sports Connect UK #sundaymotivation

Boxing Day football tradition in England, dating back to the late 19th century, and it became an integral part of the holiday season for football enthusiasts, and one of the UK’s most important holidays. Playing more than ten matches in a few days while other European leagues are at a standstill attracts attention to the English Premier League. This tradition has become a crucial date on the sports betting calendar, with sports books experiencing heightened activity as individuals bet on the outcomes of these games, significantly boosting betting revenue. It is crucial to strategize brands’ advertising efforts to stand out during the fierce competition on Boxing Day. Given the number of fixtures, there's an opportunity to extract additional value by exploring creative approaches. These contribute to enhanced brand visibility in the competitive sportsbetting landscape. Contact us at hola@vimedigital.com to explore our different digital solutions to enhance brand visibility on key calendar dates. #BoxingDay2023 #BoxingDayUK #contentmarketing #digitalmarketingagency #PremierLeagueFootball #sportsbetting

You don't need the best players to win. You need the best team players to win your World Cup, both in the arena of sports and business... Says Mike Greenaway, Multimedia Journalist, IOL Sport: "At the World Rugby Awards in Paris, Etzebeth was the only South African named in the tournament’s Dream Team. It featured five Irishmen, five Frenchmen, four New Zealanders and a solitary Springbok. South Africans understandably were shocked, but I think it was a backhanded compliment. But how then did the Springboks win the World Cup if they didn’t necessarily have the best players? The answer is that they had the best TEAM. The Boks add up to much more than the sum of their parts. The super-glue that holds the 23 players together during a match is their spirit, belief, courage and resilience. But it is not just the bloody-mindedness that the Boks showed in adversity. They were also the best-coached team in France." This interactive MasterClass will reveal the TOP10 Critical Success Factors that enabled the winning teams to foster team cohesion and optimize team communication: ❶ Making The Move (in Planning & in Action) ❷ Purpose driven vs Trophy Driven ❸ The Best Team vs the Best Players ❹ Understanding your Team Members' Backstory ❺ Determination is what separates the BEST from the REST ❻ Declaring Your Mission: Start with For WHOM ❼ Activating the Law of Expectation ❽ Transforming your Team's Heartset and Mindset ❾ Commanding Thought Leadership ❿ Giving Credit where Credit is due #leadership #teamleadership #inspiration

⚽ Unlike individual sports with long preparatory periods for single competitions, team sports have short preparatory periods for extended competitive seasons. This prolonged competition phase challenges the maintenance of peak performance. ➡ This distinction is crucial: football, for example, contrasts with individual sports as it entails a short preparation and a long competition, emphasizing the importance of managing training and performance differently. #strengthandconditioning #football #sports

Do you have a prediction for the England Vs Netherlands Semi-Final? ⚽ 🤷♂️ List it in the comments below for your chance to win a prize! After yet another nail-biter match from England 😬🫣, we are going to be playing the Netherlands this Wednesday 10thJuly, and as you can imagine there are a few interesting conversations going on around the business, plus a lot of predictions! 😉 So we thought we would ask you what you think the final score will be of this semi-final match! AND … if you guess correctly, you could win one of 4 prizes we have lined up, from branded goodies to some fun treats!    Like this post and give us your prediction in the comments below 👇 From all the correct guesses, we will randomly select the winners and be in touch with their prize.    The match is at 8pm on Wednesday 10th July, so you can participate and add your predictions up until 7pm on Wednesday 10th July. Go on … there is nothing to lose! (for us at least!) #guessthescore #euro2024 #comeonengland #football #competition #amariplasticsbedford #amariplastics

I commented lasted summer when Pogba received his provisional suspension that, given the low number of ADRVs in football, there would be much interest in his B sample. Pogba has now received a 4 year ban having tested positive for the prohibited substance testosterone. A 4-year ban is standard under the World Anti-Doping Code, but can be reduced in cases where athletes demonstrate their doping was not intentional, that the positive test was a result of contamination, or if they provide 'substantial assistance' to help investigators. Pogba reportedly declined the plea-bargain offered to him. Whilst the ban is being backdated to the date of his failed test, it will nonetheless likely spell the end of Pogba's professional career (if injury hadn't already sounded the death knell on that). High-profile examples of doping in football are comparatively rare for a sport with such reach. Most could point to the cases of Maradonna or Kolo Touré, but football outwardly and curiously seems to have a less complicated relationship with doping than sports like boxing or cycling. That said, the issue now seems to be emerging in public discourse. Gary Neville and Roy Keane very recently made oblique albeit public references to some of their opponents doping: "I remember it. I would be looking at the players I played against, a couple of the Italian teams, and they looked like they’d not even played a match.” It certainly begs the question whether there is a much bigger doping problem lurking beneath the surface in football. #sportslaw https://lnkd.in/ecJx3ji5

“Football was made and enjoyed by the poor.” This might be a controversial statement, however, it is true. The wealthy enjoy sports like golf, tennis and F1. Believe it or not, but rolex believes this and knows it well. Hence, it advertises and sponsors these sports all time time and not the most popular sport that is football or soccer. #branding #marketing #sponsor #advertising

I’ve known Ryan Gibson for what seems to be 10-15 years and love what he’s doing at Tiny House Marketing building something from scratch again. Such a stand up person and pleasure to be around. Hopefully I can persuade him to put down the tennis racket and swing some golf clubs the next time we cross paths. #businessfriendships #industrynetworking #etail25 #etail #etailpalmsprings #etailwest #ctvadvertising #ottadvertising #performancemarketing #agencyowner #growthmarketing #streamingmedia #programmaticadvertising Keynes Digital

Championship transfers that will happen in 2024, read about the eight transfers that will happen after Christmas and the New Year in the top division of the EFL https://lnkd.in/e98KpfQ5

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐥𝐥-𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 '𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠' 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤'𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲... In a critical warm-up game that saw three of England's brightest hopefuls sin-binned at the same time, and its captain Owen Farrell red-carded for his 'tackle technique' on Welsh forward Taine Basham, the 2003 trophy winning coach believes England must improve its discipline. In his article for 'Ruck', Woodward, who is one of Farrell's biggest fans, wrote "Every player has got to take responsibility and understand you are killing your team if you get yellow carded, and you are out if you get red carded. You don’t want to be the guy in a couple of months’ time saying, ‘We lost the World Cup because I got yellow carded or red carded". Clearly frustrated, he continued... "Come on. You have to play with great physicality and great skill, but you have also got to use your brain". However, in elite sport, where competition and cognitive pressure is increasingly intense, supporting athletes to manage their emotions and optimise mindset, lacks the priority it deserves in the performance toolkit. Which means it's not just about using your brain, but more importantly about how you can 'train that brain' to be more focused... to think clearly... and to stay calm and composed under pressure. And thereby avoid the reactive behaviour that picks up penalties, and dismissals. To discover how you can build our innovative 'Brain Training' technology into your sports performance program check out https://lnkd.in/efcYUuzc www.mindset-plus.com m: 07767 673007 #braintraining #mindsetiseverything #mindsettraining #rfu #englandrugby #ruwc2023 #rugbyworldcup2023 https://lnkd.in/eYiBtcEb