What are the benefits of Player-led Coaching?

The question this week comes from Liam, via the PDP Innovation Space:

“I’m working with players around the age of 14. What are your thoughts on having a group of 2-3 players replace the coach and lead one training session per week?

 

Additional video & reading

PDP Article: The Player

Interview: Ian Crook - Western Sydney Wanderers Academy Director

Your Turn: Ask PDP Anything

Each week, we will choose a key question from our community for discussion.  In order to build a broad range of answers which will be valuable for our community, we need you to get involved.

Here’s what you can do:

Ask questions. Tweet them to PDP at @playerdp, or ask them on the PDP Facebook page