{"section":"player_profiles","title":"Coaches ","appBadge":0,"contentTitle":"TFD | Coaches  | Ben O'Neill","webUrl":"https://www.teamapp.com/player_profiles/20423?id=20423","barColor":"#000C66","navTintColor":"#FFFFFF","id":20423,"cacheKey":"1463062432-","rightNavButtons":[{"icon":{"material":"more_vert"},"title":"Additional options","onClick":{"controller":"actions/optionDialog2","buttons":[{"name":"Share","onClick":{"controller":"actions/share","url":"https://totalfootballdevelopment.teamapp.com/player_profiles/20423.html"}},{"name":"Cancel","cancel":true}]}}],"breadcrumbs":[{"text":"Home","onClick":{"controller":"detail/window","url":"https://totalfootballdevelopment.teamapp.com?_webpage=v1"}},{"text":"Coaches ","onClick":{"controller":"list/window","url":"https://totalfootballdevelopment.teamapp.com/player_profiles?_list=v1"}},{"text":"Ben O'Neill","onClick":{"controller":"detail/window","url":"https://totalfootballdevelopment.teamapp.com/player_profiles/20423?_detail=v1"}}],"scrollable":false,"components":[{"type":"hamburger","scrollable":true,"components":[{"type":"imageWithTitle","title":"10","subtitle":"Ben O'Neill","subsubtitle":"DEEP LYING FORWARD","image":"https://assets.teamapp.com/assets/app/player_profiles/missing_x128-0ef343fb5e492e04e2f61879f4baaf8672a855cd79d79f30d8a8422bef01304d.png"},{"type":"html","text":"30 YO\u003cbr\u003e6 ft 1\u003cbr\u003e79 KG\u003cbr\u003eRight Footed (but loves both)"},{"type":"html","text":"Aged 9 - 11    Doncaster Rovers, CoE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 11 - 15  Nottingham Forest CoE\u003cbr\u003eIt is here where my developmental coaching philosophy was born. 12 months into my Forest contract we were banned from counting scores, they revoluntionized our style of play into \"possession dominance\" and they began to give us personal score cards for weekend matches, based on their developmental criteria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 15-16     Trialled repeatedly at, Leeds united, Sheffield United, Lincoln, Grimsby. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 16 -18    Head down \u0026amp; study, to attain necessary grades do a degree in Physio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 18 - 21     Bsc Hons Physiotherapy. Brunel University, West London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 21     Right to Dream Academy. Old Akrade, Ghana.  Volunteer Physio and Junior Coach.\u003cbr\u003eMy experience here was mind blowing. Right to Dream scours West Africa, ID'ing the finest talents and providing them with a secondary school education, potentially a tertiary education and a football education, which, over 10 years has been good enough to produce several senior caps for 5 players in the Ghanaian national Team.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 22.      FA level 2 Coaching Certificate. \u003cbr\u003eCoerver Coaching SW England Assistant coach. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 23 - 25       Coerver Coaching Elite Development Academy, Perth, WA. Junior coach, graduating to senior coach \u0026amp; then on to coaching co-ordinator.\u003cbr\u003eThis was the game changing experience in my football life. A meeting in Heathrow Airport, with an FC Porto coach, who had recently set his sights on changing the face of WA football, lead to a job offer 1000's of miles from my then home, in London. \u003cbr\u003eI took it, and received under him the most intense tuition, in his curriculums and philosophies.\u003cbr\u003eThose were founded upon Coerver Coaching, but also crafted from our best players and coaches, visiting, Real Madrid, Sporting FC, Benfica, Cruziero, Fluminense \u0026amp; Atletico Mineiro on an annual basis, \u0026amp; then reporting back.\u003cbr\u003eCoerver coaching WA, then rebranded to Football Tech and the rest, as they say is History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 25-27 Football Coaching Sabbatical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 28-29      Football Tech, WA. I played a relatively low key, part time role, in coaching within Football tech, as I strongly disagreed with developmental decision making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAged 30      Total Football Development, Director. (See mission statement to understand why TFD was created)"}],"bottom":[{"type":"ad","purchasable":true,"units":[{"type":"dfp-adaptiveBanner","adUnitId":"/256416529/teamapp.banner.app.firstlook"},{"type":"dfp-smartBanner","adUnitId":"/256416529/teamapp.banner.app.smart"},{"type":"dfp-adaptiveBanner","adUnitId":"/256416529/teamapp.banner.app.pmp"},{"type":"dfp-banner","adUnitId":"/256416529/teamapp.banner.app.fixedsize","width":320,"height":50}],"mrec":false,"native":false,"adType":null,"clubId":58377,"id":58377,"latitude":-31.952574,"longitude":115.861049,"sport":"football_soccer","admin":false,"governingBodyIds":[528795,280070],"country":"Australia","state":"WA","targetingParams":{}}]}]}