“To produce technically excellent players with outstanding decision

making skills in a safe, fun and positive environment”

RDA Coaching & Performance Analysis

Customer Guide

By Richard Allen

Introduction

RDA Coaching provides high quality football coaching and performance

analysis services for grassroots football, all at an affordable price!

Launched in March 2016, RDA Coaching is available to all ages and

abilities across the east midlands.

Mission Statement:

“To provide high quality coaching to allow players and coaches the

opportunity to be the best they can possibly be”

What We Coach at RDA:

Freedom of expression to discover ideas

Ball mastery and confidence on the ball

Focus on development linked to video analysis

Embrace creativity and freedom in all areas of the pitch

Intrinsic motivation – developing a growth mindset

Developing well rounded people and football players

Improved game intelligence, awareness and decision making

Confidence to allow players to perform the ordinary

spectacularly

Sessions related from the game downwards – can the

practice achievable in a game!

Key Values and Beliefs of RDA:

Create a performance playground for players to play in

Be approachable

Honesty and Integrity

Respect for all – shake hands before and after sessions

Enjoyment through explicit and implicit learning

View development in a long term approach as:

FUN + DEVELOPMENT = SUCCESS

[WINNING]

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About RDA

So what level of service will you be getting? Richard Allen has coaching

experience working with Nottingham Forest Academy and Women’s

Premier League teams. As well as this, Richard has previously worked

with The FA, coaching 5-11 year olds full time mentoring grassroots club

coaches, primary school teachers and running the largest FA Skills Extra

elite centre in the country. Richard also has performance analysis

experience working with Prozone Sports, Women’s Premier League

teams in addition to working with Nottingham Forest 1st team and

academy, where he was head of performance analysis.

In addition to Richard’s extensive experience in the grassroots and

professional game, Richard holds:

UEFA B Licence

FA Youth Award

BSc (Hons) in Coaching and Sport Science Degree (2:1)

FA Goalkeeping Level 2 Award

FA Futsal Level 1

Fully Qualified in Prozone Performance Analysis

AfPE Level 3 Qualified in Delivering School Sport

FA 1st Aid Qualified

CRB Checked

FA Safeguarding Certificate

ISPAS Accreditation: Research Issues in Performance Analysis

(2:1)

ISPAS Accreditation: Computerised Performance Analysis of Sport

(1st)

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Services

RDA Coaching offers a range of services including:

Grassroots Club CPD Workshops

Grassroots Club Coach Mentoring & Grassroots Club Team

Coaching

1 to 1 Coaching Including Technique Analysis

Team Performance Analysis

Primary School Coaching

Grassroots Club CPD Workshops

RDA Coaching offers CPD workshops to clubs for coaches and parents

which can be on a range of topics related to the FA 4 Corner Model;

Technical / Tactical

Looking for new ideas on practice design, technical aspects

or how to incorporate tactical ideas? This may even be linked

into what the England DNA or your club philosophy looks like

on the grass!

Psychology

The psychological aspects are paramount to gaining the

most out of your players!

Physical

An integral part of the four corner model, exploring how

FUNdamental movements can improve physical literacy in a

fun way with football related outcomes!

Social

Informal workshops on how coaches and parents can

integrate social aspects within training and matches, and

what influences you can make to ensure players become a

good citizen of the game and in society!

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CPD Workshop Offer

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Grassroots Club Coach Mentoring

Linking into the grassroots club workshops, RDA coaching provides

informal mentoring for coaches looking to improve their coaching,

environment and players over a 6 week period.

Coaches can design a bespoke mentoring programme, suited to the

needs of the coaches and the players. A mentoring programme will

include;

RDA Session Plans

Weekly communication with the coaches

Analysis videos of their coaching to analyse individual action

and learning points to benchmark progress

Opportunities to observe RDA coaching in both grassroots

and elite environments

A bespoke programme may look like this;

RDA leading all sessions, highlighting the reasoning

behind types of coaching interventions such as questions,

challenges and constraints

Coaches leading all sessions with RDA providing formal

and informal feedback with video observation

Please watch this video to see an example!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv_533cNqaI

A collaboration of delivery from between both RDA and

the club coaches

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Grassroots Club Coach Mentoring Offer

“Speaking as a parent who loves’s football, I have to say you are easily the best coach that I have seen at this level”.

Tan Razzaq, Parent “You target the individual skills and tricks that enable players to improve their self-belief and express themselves without the fear of failure. These are aspects that without a doubt improve a player immeasurably. This can be rarely achieved at a club level as there is a lack of time and knowledge”.

Martin Greatorex, Parent “Love the encouragement of creativity and the fact that the ‘team’ has a theme. The individual challenges are a great idea, and ‘game situation’ sessions are excellent”

Nick Franklin, Parent

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1 to 1 Coaching Including Technique Analysis

Want to improve your individual

game? This is your chance to be

trained by RDA Coaching on a 1

to 1 basis!

At RDA Coaching, we know that

individual training is the ideal way

to improve your individual skills

and ability which contributes to

your overall game.

RDA gives you the opportunity to

keep fit, have fun and develop your skills with a unique development

plan linked to performance analysis.

Develop your:

Speed / Strength / Finishing / Fitness / Confidence / Belief /

Ball Mastery / Overall Technique / 1st Touch / Receiving Skills /

Passing.

Individualised position specific training also available for Goalkeepers.

1 TO 1 COACHING & ANALYSIS OFFER

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Team Performance Analysis

Ever wanted to know what professionals experience with detailed

analysis of their match and training performances? Want to know your

areas of improvement, to bullet point your training needs or to highlight

tactical trends? RDA offers detailed analysis using Focus X2 software to

highlight key performance indicators of your choice. Your game will be

filmed, analysed and you will receive a DVD copy of your performance

with an optional video analysis team classroom session.

RDA has experience of doing performance analysis with Nottingham

Forest 1st team and academy, spending every day on the training field

and analysing match and training performances. RDA has worked with

the likes of Sean O’Driscoll, Alex Mcleish, Steve Chettle and Eoin Jess,

national coach John Griffiths and current Prozone analyst John

Harrower. In addition, RDA has worked with Prozone Sports, the leading

pioneers of performance analysis during Euro 2012 analysing matches

and data for clients such as BBC Sport, Reading FC and the England

senior national team.

The performance analysis package includes:

Your game filmed with a high resolution camera

6 Key Performance Indicators of your choice i.e. Attacking

entries into the final third, playing out from the back and

position specific performance indicators

Comprehensive analysis using Focus X2 Software

A DVD of the game or training, with optional highlights

videos

Optional classroom session with video feedback

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Team Performance Analysis Package

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Primary School Coaching

Having acquired over 3 years experience with The FA delivering in

Primary Schools mentoring teachers and developing pupils, RDA

Coaching can offer an outstanding level of service. RDA can offer PPA

cover and informal teacher CPD, giving teachers the confidence to

deliver PE to a good standard. RDA has gone through extensive school

specific training from The FA to previously deliver The FA Primary

Teachers Award and hold the AfPE Level 3 in delivering school sport.

What can you expect from RDA Coaching within schools?

Fun, inclusive lessons for all abilities

Differentiation including giving challenges to different

ability groups

Progressive lessons which are linked with an FA and RDA

coaching syllabus

Lessons tailored to both the needs of the children and the

teacher

Maximised ball contact time

School Team training

“Through your sessions you've been able to keep children across the ability

range engaged and invested, through the variation and differentiation of

your activities. This gave them greater opportunity to develop, while the

whole-part-whole approach you used maximised the time the children stayed

physically active. Finally, it's been really good to see the regular use of

positive competition in your sessions, from challenging them to beat their

own best score to direct competition in the adapted games”.

Joe Routledge, PE Teacher at Grange Primary School, Long Eaton

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Primary School Coaching Offer

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Contact Details

Mobile: 07713 236910

Email: richard_allen04@hotmail.com

Twitter: @RDA_Coaching

Facebook: RDA Coaching & Performance Analysis

RDA is an FA Licensed Coach, is fully insured has a full

CRB check

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