HE played for no fewer than 10 different clubs in Scotland, England and the United States during a professional football career that lasted 16 years…
Scottish striker coach Allan Russell, left, with Gareth Southgate during his time working with the England national team, England and the United States during a professional football career that lasted 16 years and weighed in with a goal or two along the way.
The complete absence of specialist centre-forward coaching from youth right up to senior level in that era and those which preceded it, though, did not stop Scotland from producing exceptional marksmen. Russell continued: “The next issue is how players are being taught at clubs as they hone their craft. How are they being educated? And I mean in proper sessions, detailed sessions. It should all be based on the individual profile.
So could our strikers not have scaled the same heights without one-to-one guidance as well? Not according to Russell. “A midfielder can give the ball away and then 30 seconds later find it is at his feet again. A striker can give the ball away and might have to wait six minutes until his next touch comes. That is a lot of time in their head. The emotional side of it, the mental side of it, the psychological side of it, are so, so different as well.”Russell added: “I have been lucky. I have worked with, and still work with, some of the top strikers in the world. We speak a lot about inner-management.
“A lot of players don’t know how to do that. A lot of players will try and fix things. They need to say, ‘Okay, I’ve missed that, but I know why I have missed it and I know what I need to do to fix it’. But a lot of players don’t know.”
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