Timestamps:

00:00 - Welcome Lee Fletcher!

01:44 - Lee on growing up in Oldham and how he fell in love with Oldham Athletic

07:20 - How Lee went from a salesman & personal banker to a football coach

08:16 - You don’t have to be in the professional changing rooms to understand football, and you can find very good footballers at semi-pro level

11:23 - Lee moves to Madrid and starts at FC Britanico de Madrid

13:26 - The differences between coaching and playing football. When you play, it’s in 2D, when you coach, it’s in 3D

16:39 - Clubs in the Greater Manchester area

18:02 - Lee on his experience working at Manchester United and Manchester City Soccer Schools in 2015 and 2016. “Don’t be the first one to go to bed”, and the difference between United and City.

22:25 - The diet of coaching

25:02 - How Lee and his friend Graeme spotted a gap in the market in Madrid and started Albion Football Language Academy, and how that led to working at Real Madrid

25:37 - Real Madrid’s academy set-up

27:26 - Coaching the Real Madrid youngsters in English

30:47 - Lee’s thoughts on the differences between Spanish and English football

34:40 - Coaching at IE University in Madrid

38:55 - Lee’s spell at Alcobendas, and periodisation in coaching

44:17 - Lee on his role as Head of Content at The Coaching Manual

49:01 - Lee’s on his role at Manchester United as an Academy Emerging Talent Coach

54:00 - The pyramid of football - the foundations, the principles, and the technical framework

56:45 - Strategy - philosophy, game model, methodology

1:01:23 - What’s next for Lee?

1:08:31 - Outro

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