[FIRST NAME GOES HERE],
It’s the 100th edition of our On The Grass newsletter, and it coincides with another major milestone we’re very proud of.
To celebrate, we want to share a special offer to say thank you for your support, so keep reading…
Player Development Project turns ten years old!
Today, we share with you some of our best archive content (in the links below) and reflect on the evolution of PDP over the last decade.
And we’ll offer our newsletter subscribers a special deal…read more below!
After an early beginning as an app, we quickly pivoted to become an iPad magazine in 2015, partnering with Cruyff Football (a very exciting moment in the first year or two of our existence!).
This took us on a trip to Barcelona to meet with Todd Beane (a long-time contributor and player development expert). However, fairly quickly after our new partnership, digital magazines ceased to exist… so we shifted again to our online learning platform with a membership model.
As we evolved, we were fortunate to interview dozens of professional players and coaches, including Johan Cruyff, Wesley Sniejder, Harry Kewell, Eusebio and Piet Keizer. We also connected with and interviewed some of the best player development coaches and researchers from the UK, Europe and USA.
There were conference presentations in Norway, Amsterdam and Geneva, and our Lead Researcher, James Vaughan continued to push the boundaries of player development, publishing several papers and obtaining his PhD along the way.
We have continued to evolve, delivering personalised mentoring to members, spending over four years podcasting, delivering over 20 free webinars through the Covid pandemic, developing a library of Q&A videos, long-form guides and creating live sessions on the grass for coaches to watch.
In 2021 we began designing online courses and now have a collection of three courses built over 2 years with world-class coaching experts.
Beyond this, we’ve developed our own coaching community driven by Lee Hodge (thank you, Lee!), and in 2024, we created our AI-powered session planning app, Coach Frank.
Our goal has always been simple – to improve the experience of players. We do this by providing world-class coaching content via a global network of experts to our community that influences behaviour on the grass.
There have been some huge challenges for us along the way, but we’re proud to be here ten years later with arguably the world’s biggest coaching content library on our site.
Thank you for all your ongoing support, we’re so grateful for all those who have been part of our team over the last ten years as well as the network of experts who have been willing to share their expertise, experience and time all in the name of helping coaches ensure that players have the most positive experience possible.
Most importantly, thank you to our readers, members and subscribers. Thank you for allowing us to continue to create content that helps coaches get better.
To celebrate, we’re offering 50% off all PDP Coaching Courses for the next 3 days*
Click the links below to explore our courses, and use the coupon code 10YEARS on the checkout page for 50% off, with lifetime access.
⚽ #1 Introduction to Soccer Coaching
⚽ #2 Foundations of Session Design
⚽ #3 Physical Performance Through Soccer
⚽ #4 Coaching Mastery Bundle (Includes all three courses, already discounted by 30%!)
*Offer ends Friday, July 4th.
