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Silverfox Hustle Football Talk - Individual Football Training #1 with Igor Coelho - Technical Director, IFT Asia
In the first of a series of episodes with IFT Asia, we explore the transformative impact of individual training in football, emphasised by Igor Coelho, the Technical Director of IFT Asia. Key discussions highlight the need for hunger in players, the importance of quality coaching and how tailored training can elevate players' confidence and skills on the field.
• Focus on individual training to complement team training
• Quality coaching critical to achieving optimal training outcomes
• IFT's coaching standards promote tailored experiences for players
• Plans for the future of IFT Asia in enhancing the Singapore football landscape
• Upcoming camps and training opportunities available for young players
This is the Silver Fox Hustle Podcast. Hello and welcome back. We are on the football talk episodes of the Silver Fox Hustle podcast, and today it's all about football and it's all about coaching and in recent times, the past few months, we've been talking about we saw this in the news, social media about specialised coaching, and one example is the set-piece coach of Arsenal, as you all might know and might agree with or might not agree with his methods, but today in the studios we have someone special. He is from the Individual Football Training Asia. He is the Technical Director of the Individual Football Training Asia and he's going to talk about Specialized Training, Individual Training and what are the benefits. And before we start, don't forget to click on the follow button, the subscribe button. We are on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and the Works.
Speaker 1:Now just a little bit about IFT. Ift is Individual Football Training Asia. It is an academy that focuses on the individual performance development of football players and its main purpose is to develop players' skills and empower his range of abilities that enables him to become a more complete player. Now, that is all in words, but today in the studios we have the technical director of IFT Asia, Mr Igor Kvelio. Igor, good to see you, my friend, Hi.
Speaker 2:Shashi, how are you? Everything okay.
Speaker 1:I'm very good. How are you?
Speaker 2:Good to see you too.
Speaker 1:How are you? It's been a very, very hot day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's hot every day in singapore, so yeah I love it.
Speaker 1:I love it yeah, just just a little bit before we start. Right, you have a four month old baby. Three months, oh, three months, sorry.
Speaker 2:And then how is it sunday? She make, she make four months and and how.
Speaker 1:How is it? How has it been so far?
Speaker 2:Amazing, amazing. It was the best experience in the world being a father. And then another adventure bringing the family here, the wife and the daughter. It's been amazing, beautiful. They love Singapore, we are settled and the place that we are is amazing. Singapore is wonderful to raise kids, so yeah, everything okay.
Speaker 1:Beautiful Igor, and you know, before we start talking about IFT, asia and all right, let's talk a little bit about yourself as well. What are your experiences back home, when probably your playing experience and, of course, your coaching experience? Just talk a little bit about that yeah, I was.
Speaker 2:I'm laughing. It's funny because yesterday I speak with a, with a player, and I was telling the mistakes that I do, like when I was professional players. It's a like a lesson that can I give to the players, because I make a lot of mistakes when I was a professional player. When I don't have the perfect life, I don't worry about what I eat, I don't make sacrifices for being a football player. So now we are speaking a lot of what the players have to do and everything. So in my time maybe I could get higher level, but because I like to go out, friends don't make like the sacrifice that every professional have to do it, because they have to do a lot of sacrifice.
Speaker 2:If you want to be a football player and I don't, I don't do it that. So I think that it was my problem and I can give like self-experience to the, to the players stays a top break, a top club in the in Porto, my formation. Then I play like a lot of years in the professional leagues and then, like on the 18, I Decide, okay, I'm gonna keep going like the play football, but let me try to do to be football coach. And then since 18, I'm, I'm, I'm being like a football coach until now, 39 years old 18 years old, you started coaching.
Speaker 1:yes, wow, and and I I think with that alone there's been lots of experiences, I'm sure coaching as well as playing and I I like what you said. I really like what you said at the beginning. Right off the bat, you spoke about mistakes. I think we all learn from mistakes and I think, with your experience of making mistakes, when you share it with your players whom you are coaching right now, I think that comes in very, very handy. It is helpful.
Speaker 2:I really make a lot of mistakes, yeah, and if you, when you talk about experience, it's like that, it's the experience that like the knowledge that you get when you make mistakes, when you do something. That is not the way that you you get when you make mistakes when you do something. That is not the way that you, you want. So, when you call this player, don't have like experience, is that is making mistakes sometimes. Again, I'm gonna say, when you talk to players, they have a free of making mistakes, but making a mistake is good for the player, so they're going to learn from that mistake, they're going to learn how to do it right. And then it's experience. When you call about the experience, yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1:Now let's get to it right. You want to speak about individual football training, asia specifically, and what are the benefits of joining a program, a session, with IFT. Now just talk us through a little bit about IFT itself, ift Asia, what you guys do and, in general, the kind of training that you do.
Speaker 2:Okay, I have to come back and explain a little bit our history. Eft like become a company that was was formed by three, three owners, three owners that have like a lot of experience, and they like they collect parts of football or lessons of football, knowledge of football from all europe, like german, like spain, yeah, england, and and then they create the EFT methodology Okay, very important, the Portuguese Knowledge, m2, okay, and then, with the experience, with everything, they create the EFT methodology. It was like 2013. So a long way that we have a path.
Speaker 2:That was very, very difficult because in that time, individual training no one thinks in individual training like the clubs think that we are interfering in the, in the, the work of them. So it was a struggle, right, a big struggle, but then we get it. Then the clubs understand the benefits that we can give to the, to the teams, to the players, and then in 2022, we come to to Singapore, right, and then the established here. They like the, our work. We been coming here for three years like camps and clinics and individual trainings in holidays, and now, since August, we are here permanently and sharing the knowledge with everyone Beautiful.
Speaker 1:So officially, last August 2024, you've been here and you've been seeing the scene and we're going to talk a little bit about what you've seen so far and what we know, what we can improve and so on. And listen, I I like about you know, the coaching bit, the individual coaching bit, and and I'm also a coach as well and I'm I'm a coach developer as well, but I want to talk about you know, this is very important the quality of coaching as well. Right? So, with an ift asia coach, uh, the coaches who are with you guys, how, what kind of certification do you get? Are you all? Do you have like an internal IFT coaching certificate? Or you have that general UEFA, you know?
Speaker 2:okay, it's like this for being an individual, an EFT coach, okay, we have to pass a high formation. Okay, over there a long hours like seeing the trainings, long hours of formation, then share the content of the trainings, like trying to make drills and then speak with the older person. So for being a EFT coach, coach, you need one, two years of formation, being there, like, because then our value is understanding the player, see what the player is doing wrong, see where we can improve right, try to like decompose the movement of the player. Try to like decompose the movement of the player, how the player is going to be better doing this or that. They have to understand.
Speaker 2:So this is little details that only with experience we're going to get it, of course. And then of course the owners like share that experience. We have formation. Then the older coaches start to give, give formation to. They share the knowledge and then of course is like a individual, like experience that we can bring from every coach to our mythology. So every coach like put a little thing in the mythology of EFT. So everyone is bringing new things and the mythology is getting higher and higher and higher.
Speaker 1:I just want to ask you this. I think, from what you said right, you need to understand the players, of course, and you need to understand the game itself, because you are then coaching players in specific roles and positions. Is it safe to say that then the coaches at IFT Asia and IFT in general has had experience playing the game?
Speaker 2:Tricky question.
Speaker 2:That is a conversation that he can take a lot of like ways, but in my opinion, of course, he has to be a football player or he has to have a experience of of football, uh, to try to understand, like sometimes, um, how, how you're gonna like teach a player to shoot or a skill if you cannot get it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because if you cannot get it, because if you cannot get it, how are you going to teach, how are you going to understand what is doing wrong or not? So I think every coach has to pass for the football life or the practice, the football. And then it's funny, here we still don't have that because we are starting, but in Portugal our formation is practical, so we make the drills, we try the drills that we we teach to the players, and then you have to understand. Only when you practice you're gonna understand what is wrong and if the drill is like suitable for the things that you want or not. So, yeah, I think it's very important for having a experience to be a coach I just want to touch on that and add on to that as well.
Speaker 1:I think what what ego just said as well, and I think it also impacts the realism of the session. You know, because if you don't know the game and then when you set, put out drills and and you know it could not be realistic sometimes, you know, and if you don't have the experience you wouldn't know. You know, and it's as simple as moving the marker just 5 metres, it changes the drill Completely, absolutely changes the drill and the objectives as well. So people at home and watching and listening to this, it is very important that you know we see this as well and that's a great point. I want to just touch a little bit on goalkeeping training. Obviously that's very specialized, very individualized. Is that coming soon to Singapore?
Speaker 2:We are trying and in the camps we have the goalkeeper coaching. The demand in Singapore is not so big for us to bring a coach here just now, but we are trying to see that. We are trying. How can we put that in the EFT Asia? Of course we don't have one year of existence here. Still, we are getting bigger and bigger and we want to bring that, but step by step Of course. Of course we cannot do a step bigger than we can handle and is a very specific place goalkeeper coach and I think he's a big gap here in Singapore. You don't have so many goalkeeper coach and I think he's going to be good if we can bring a goalkeeper coach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think, igor, you said it. You know, I think it's very specialized as well. And also, you spoke about the demands. At the moment, when Igor speaks about demand, it's like is there calls from people saying that you know, I want a goalkeeping? I think it's very important, you know, I think it's very important.
Speaker 2:You know it's very important. You know I think it's very important. You know it's so specialized that I don't think it's only that it's important yeah yeah of course, everything is important.
Speaker 2:Okay, it's a specific position, but you can see this, sassi, if you are like talking about the specific position because of the goalkeeper, all of the other positions is specific. So why is important the individual coach, the specific coach for that position, for defender, for midfielder, for attacking, and if we can give, like specific training to each position, imagine how, how is the player improve?
Speaker 1:absolutely, absolutely a very good. Now let's talk about here in Singapore. You know I think you've been here from August, like as in full time from August 2024. But I think you've been here before. You know I've seen you at the IFT Asia. You know the camps, you know, I've seen you and you've seen the scene in Singapore, the landscape in Singapore, the landscape in Singapore. What do you think is lacking here in Singapore in terms of football, specific stuff, you know, maybe I don't know in terms of positions, and is there anything that is lacking you feel?
Speaker 2:OK, let me only say one thing, and I think it's important for the people understand this Every coach is not the owner of truth, okay. So in my opinion okay, I'm going to say my opinion and I like to have like conversation on football because I can like speak with other coaches, listen to what they have to do, and I think it's very, very good like share information. Yeah, so we only going to be better if we have more knowledge and with every coach, it doesn't matter the level we can learn. So I like to speak with coaches and I like very much this conversation that we have because we're going to learn everything every time like something new. In my opinion, again, like in Singapore, I think, little things that can change that is going to make Singapore level higher.
Speaker 2:First, the anger of the players. I think the players don't feel the passion. They go there, they play, but they really want to play, they really want to live the feel like better players, like winning. I don't feel. I feel like I speak with the players. Winning or losing is the same thing and it cannot be. They have to learn in winning and they have to learn how to lose, but they have to have the passion to lose, but they have to have the passion, the anger okay they have to have, and I think that is a thing that the players don't have.
Speaker 2:Then I think the the quality of the league is not like a level like you have like higher teams and and lower teams, and then, if we can like, try to level the level of the clubs. The competition is going to be much better. So instead of like thinking that lower clubs, the higher clubs needs to lower the level.
Speaker 2:No the lower clubs have to keep up to the higher clubs and improve the level, so the competition is going to be more strong. So if you have like better players, better competition, the players, trainings are higher level, higher intensity. Of course they're going to improve, they're gonna improve. And then the, the coaches here, the coaches, the teams I don't know these, the, the culture look to a team and they look okay, we're gonna win. They don't care about how, okay, so they don't focus on the individual player.
Speaker 2:If the, the player doesn't like touch the ball three or four times, but the team wins, okay, it's good, we win. And I think that is not the right way. I think the result, of course, is important. And if we can like improve, winning the games, excellent, okay. But if I leave the field like, ok, I lose, but my team improves, my team plays, my team tries to build up, tries to stay with the ball, the players will get better. And when the players get better, the level is gonna be higher. And this is a long process, of course, but here, ok, sometimes the most important is winning the games. I think it's not the right mindset that we have to have, especially at the lower levels. Right, of course we are speaking about formation. Okay, of course, higher level you have to win now, it doesn't matter how Okay.
Speaker 1:Igor has hit the nail in the head and I just want to echo that and this is my opinion, it's not Igor's opinion To all the clubs in the age groups, the various age groups playing in the SYL as well. We've seen this, I've seen this personally. Sometimes I do wonder whether there's only two players playing the team, because you have a striker and you have a defender, and the defender, who can kick the ball kick, not pass kicks the ball up to the striker, the striker, who can kick the ball as well, and he kicks the ball into the net. So the players in the middle, you guys, are not. So to the coaches, the various coaches watching this as well, it is not a criticism, it is an observation, and you know it's how you take it as well, because it's happening. It's happening here in Singapore. So we've got to do better, the coaches have got to do better.
Speaker 1:Now, how does IFT Asia come into the picture? Igor, you know we talk about I think you said this at the beginning. You know when IFT started. You know when IFT started. You know teams are thinking this guy is going to take. You know the team training and how. So speak to us about how the individual training is going to fit into a team, for example.
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell a story. A story, yes, a small story. In Portugal we have a player that works with us like three or four years. A story, a story, yes, a small story. Okay, in the Portugal. Okay, we have a player that works with us like three or four years and then he was called to Benfica, one of the top top clubs in Portugal, and then the Benfica like prohibit to do external like training, not individual, but external, every training that he can do because they want to control. And he said, okay, I come to Benfica but I don't leave EFT, because the player that I am today is because of EFT.
Speaker 2:Eft helped me reach here, so I want to keep improving with EFT. Or you let me keep training in EFT, or I don't come to Benfica. And then Benfica like, okay, this is strange because we have everything here, why you want to go there. And they come to see the trainings and after like two or three years, like speaking with us and everything, we start to working with Benfica. Instead of they don't allow the players come start working with the players on Benfica so they understand, okay, the importance of EFT in the players. Okay, and here, okay, I don't feel that struggle because here the culture of the clubs is different. We have like, sometimes, players playing in the weekend for three clubs different or three academies different, so that like only individual, like playing for a club is not so, so high here.
Speaker 2:But I feel like sometimes when you say I'm in the FT and they look to you why, why you are there, and our job is only focused on the, on the player and helping the teams. Because if, if you have like three players that improve in the FT, of course your team is going to be better, okay, and when they come, okay, we work on specific players how they shoot, how they control the ball, how they're going to understand the game, how they're going to think the game. We don't work tacticals, we don't work like what you're gonna do in the in the team, because that is the part of the team coach, okay, and we don't want that. Yeah, we want to focus on the player. And if the player like come to us and he cannot shoot but leave the training, learning to shoot, of course the team is gonna improve because the player in the game, yeah, he's gonna feel like comfortable to shooting. Yes, okay, and a lot of things that we can improve the players and, of course, improving the teams.
Speaker 1:Wonderful. I think that's well put as well. So it's more like you know a partnership instead of you know quarreling and fighting over the player and who's better and whether the club's better and all. And you know clubs as well. Let me only say the same thing clubs as well.
Speaker 2:Let me only say the same thing in Portugal. Now we start like, instead of, or as well, like speaking with parents and kids. How can we improve? Because sometimes we don't see the games and we ask the feedback from the parents and the kids. But now, if we know the coach and the team, we go try to understand what the coach, the idea of the coach, and the team. We go try to understand what the coach, the idea of the coach, has the player, so the coach can say, okay, I feel that this player can work on this and okay, let's, let's, let's do a thing that is suitable for the two win-win situation. Okay, I help you and you help me, because you are like trying to give me the feedback of what happened in the game, and it's very important.
Speaker 1:It's. You know, I think the mentality has got to change as well with the clubs. You know, I think the mentality and the you know, because it's not about you alone, it's not about you, it's about the player, because I think if he improves, it's a win-win situation. Like you say, the clubs improve, the team improves as well. You know, the, the player that plays for the club, that the team improves as well, and it and it's it's very important as well to note that when you are a club coach, you are coaching the team.
Speaker 1:It's difficult to get to coach an individual player as well. It's, it's so, so difficult, unless the you, you call okay, maybe four players come, uh, half an hour before a training session. Okay, we do a little bit more, you know so. So that's the only thing that they can do. So it's, it's a, it's a win-win situation. I have to say this and, uh, you know how, how do you make specific changes, adjustments to a player to help him? You know, for example, like, like, uh, he, he's weak at something, so you just concentrate on that particular aspect let me only a little aspect before.
Speaker 2:The information now everyone can get it. You have on YouTube, you have, like, the sites. Everyone is easy to have information. So it's easy to put a training to do drills. It's very easy now.
Speaker 2:But the way that you conduct the drills, the way that you adjust the drills to your team because I see a lot of young coaches and young teams doing trainings that Manchester City train, absolutely you have the players of Manchester City to do the drills. No, you have kids. They are learning football, so you have to adjust. You can take a little bit of the exercise, the drills, but you have to adjust. So I think that is the experience, the knowledge and everything Regarding to a player. Everything regarding to a player is is the details that we are speaking are very like, small and sometimes let me explain with a, with a situation, and it's easy for me to explain. Great, imagine a player comes and to me and said this game, my skills were not good and I say, okay, but why were not good? Because when I'm going to do the drill, the ball is never on the place to do the skill. The ball is never on the place to do the skill. Okay, so before you do the skill, you already have like difficulties.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So the problem is not the skill. The problem is the dribbling that you yes, so the problem is not the skill. The problem is the dribbling that you do before. So the problem is not the skill. So the skill is not bad, it was the dribbling. Okay, when you control the ball, the ball goes to the place that you want to do. The skill no, I have always to adjust the ball with one or two touches. So the problem is not the skill, it's the control of the ball. So that little details that we're going to like observe and like teach the player and try to read the movement and explain.
Speaker 2:that is the difference how they put the body when they are shooting Right, if it's the correct position or not. The way they're going to control the ball depends on what they are seeing the scanning, the reading of the game, the understanding of the game. Imagine I have a player, my teammate, is passing over there, so I'm going to control the ball to the other side. No, I have to do a first touch. I got control over there, so it's going to be easy for me to pass to that player so little things that make all the difference during the game. Okay. So, and when the player comes and is able to do that, it feels more confident. Okay, and you come here and you be able to shoot and you shoot like three shots on top corner. They leave the training line confident, the ego higher, and they go to the game. Okay, and they go to the game and think, oh, I do this in the FT, I'm able to do it, I'm capable of doing this, so let's do it. Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1:I just want to touch on what Ego said as well, and I think it's perfect. You know, I think sometimes coaches don't realize the importance of small, tiny details. You know he spoke about the skill. Why can't the player do a skill? It's actually not the skill, it's the preparation before doing the particular skill. Something went wrong before that, not at the particular skill, and I spoke this at a recent coaching course as well.
Speaker 1:We were doing a passing drill. But when you're doing a passing drill, you can't talk only about a passing. You got to talk about the weight of the pass, where the ball is coming from, everything else that has got to do with the passing. It's not only the passing, you got to coach the other stuff around it. So I think coaches new coaches coming up you got to realize this as well. The details is so, so important and you know people watching and listening to this.
Speaker 1:We are not going to have only one episode with Igor in this IFT Asia special, because we're going to talk a lot more about certain things that's going to happen, different aspects of the coaching at IFT Asia as well. So this is not the only episode Before we go, igor. I just want to touch on this thing right. So in a typical week, for example, you take a player right. How can you see the difference in terms of the quality of the player or the improvement? How much can you see after you know? How long would you take to see probably a little bit of improvement?
Speaker 2:That depends a little bit of the player too. You have players that learn the things faster than the other. The speed of the learning is different. I think, like one training per week is a compliment to the training of the team.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, I think it's very important if you something is stuck in your throat, no problem.
Speaker 2:I think it's very important that the kids have a compliment during the week. Okay, why? Because, imagine we work on the skills on the dribble, on the control of the ball, and then they come and I say and I ask how was the dribble on the game, how you feel you were comfortable doing the skill or not? And they share with me oh, coach, I feel more confident. I don't feel so. We're gonna start working on other things when they are comfortable doing everything. So different ways of learning, different speeds, different time.
Speaker 2:And I think that sometimes the parents come here and they say like, hey, coach, my son cannot like skill two players. And then, in front of the goalkeeper, like, choose a side and shoot, okay, nice, okay, how old is your son? Seven years old. And I say, oh, seven years old, and he can control the ball perfectly. Oh, sometimes he struggle to control the ball and he can make good passes. Sometimes he miss. Okay, let's work first to control pass, let's let him feel comfortable like having this, and then let's take to another level. Okay, step by step, don't want to to be like a bigger step that you can do it.
Speaker 2:So I think that that is the real. Like speed, it depends on the player, depends how comfortable he feels to doing because our job is important. If they can apply on the game, imagine the player can come to our training and he do a perfectly skill against the cone Right. But then in the game you ask to player and the father he can do it. Our training and he do a perfectly skill against the cone right. But then in the game you ask to player and the father he can do it. No coach, he struggles and he is afraid so our job is not done.
Speaker 2:Our job is to ok. We have to make sure that you gonna do the skill in the game, yeah, so we have to find ways, yeah, to make it. So it depends, right, very much of the player.
Speaker 1:I like what you just said. You need to transfer what you do, the skills, whatever skills you do in a training session and then do it in a game, because all that spinning and turning and your Anthony turns I don't think it has a, you know in the game. You don't do that in a game, you know in a proper game right.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you have to separate freestyle of football.
Speaker 1:Okay, in a proper game sometimes you have to separate freestyle of football, okay. Yeah, igor, before we go, let's talk about the programs that you are doing at the moment. At the moment, what classes are you doing, and the venue as well maybe we can spread the word out and the different sessions that you have a very important thing.
Speaker 2:We are trying to bring another coach, so the demand is big, so beautiful. Yes, we are, we are full, yes, every day. The other day it was funny because a player like the mom thinks that he's having a lot of activity, okay, okay. And then he, the mom, say to us okay, I'm having a break because my kid is a lot of training, tennis and everything, a lot of things. And then the kid starts crying. You know how difficult it is to have a slot with Coach Igor. I cannot miss that, I cannot lose that. And then he come back.
Speaker 2:Right, right, right Because with the conversation with the parents and I think that is we can take out some exercise. But the EFT training is very important for the coordination, for what he's learning, the confidence and everything. So another coach is coming because of the demand is huge. We are now in Calan cage. Okay, okay, from two to eight.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:We have individual slots. We have group slots for different ages where we can like. When I speak with the parents. I know that it's not easy to find the time- yes, of course, when.
Speaker 2:I speak with the parents. I know that it's not easy to find the time or more things to come, but my advice is one individual training and one group training. Why I explain? Because individual we work okay with the player, but it's difficult for us to control how they're going to put in the game or the training of the clubs because we are not there. We don't have that voice on your ear like saying go, go, go, do it faster, what you need to change and everything. And in the group session, because it's a group and it's the same age, we can work on 1v1, on passing drills, on dynamics of exercise. So my advice is every time that, if you can, one individual slot and one individual group slot so you can work and have the best of the two worlds. We are in the process to find another pitch, okay, just now, but for the moment we are in the cage in Calais so we can reach IFTia via the website, obviously yeah, we have the website.
Speaker 2:Uh, in the instagram. Okay, we have to the the page, my page, like igor coelho coach. Okay, you can like, send a message and you we share the link of the bookings. Regarding to what you asked me, we're gonna have a camp now in the holidays in March. It's gonna be morning sessions and then we are preparing the June camp because we want to be a big thing here, like we already are, like three years ago. We're having all time the sign-ups full, more than six coaches here. Let's try to bring more coaches to open more slots and every time we have holidays, we do camps clinics everything that we can do to improve and help the Singapore football to grow up.
Speaker 1:I think you know to parents watching this as well. You know, yeah, it's a good way to just link up in terms of trying to get slots, but before that, I think, go and try out the camps if you don't have. And you know, because, trust me, I think top quality coaches the training sessions as well. And we talked and Igor spoke about all the drills that you can find on the YouTube. Yeah, probably, you could probably experience the same drills in the camp. But it's not about the drills, my friend, it's just about the way things are being done, the quality. It's top notch. Please go and try the camps if you want to really see what it's like with the coaches as well, and what they do with the players, whether they can improve as well, because I think it's great, top-notch. And I have to say, my son went about, I think, three years ago, I think about three years ago, and he found it very useful. So please try that out.
Speaker 1:Now, igor, I think we are. You know, in the next few episodes as well, we're going to talk more about what IFT Asia can provide and try to improve. You know the players, especially in Singapore, and the club players as well. I think this message goes out to the club players as well, who are playing for your clubs. I think you guys need that extra bit. If you think you need that extra bit, you know, just go and look for IFT Asia, because I truly believe that it's going to help you individually and then you take it back to your clubs and you know you, you're going to improve definitely we.
Speaker 2:We have a lot of players that come to with a goal like I want to to go this trial and get in, okay, and we work on that and luckily, with the work that we are doing and the player are doing, they are getting success and when they go to trial they get in. So for us it's like a win, a win situation when the player and the happy of the smile of the player that comes and say, coach, I can do this skill in the game, coach, I do this like the first touch and I shot a good shot, so that is our winning Can provide that experience to the player, that confidence, that quality on the improvement of the game of the player is wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1:Igor, thanks for coming down. I am really looking forward to the next few episodes as well. But you know it has been a wonderful chat. You know. I think we echo the same message about football, about coaching as well, the quality of coaches.
Speaker 1:I think there's more to talk about that's why we are here, yeah absolutely, and we can speak about football, by the way, for another two, three hours and not get bored right. So till the next episode, don't forget, click on the follow button, subscribe to us Spotify, apple Podcasts, youtube and everywhere. And don't forget IFT Asia. Go and look them up, just Google it, instagram. They're out everywhere as well, and if you want to have a coaching session with Coach Igor here, by all means. So till the next episode, we will see you again. Cheers. We'll see you next time.