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In the final Modern Soccer Coach podcast of 2025, we step back from tactics and trends and ask a bigger question:
What will the game look like in 2026 and beyond?
Rather than reviewing downloads or highlights, this episode focuses on three ideas from 2025 that point directly toward the future of soccer coaching and player development.
Across the year on Modern Soccer Coach, conversations consistently returned to the same themes: clarity over complexity, individuality over rigid structure, and environments over outcomes.
In this episode, we explore:
• How modern game models may be limiting individual development
• Why more content does not always create better coaches
• The growing importance of methodology and clarity
• How youth environments shape the future of the professional game
This episode is for coaches who want to think beyond the next session and reflect on where the game is actually heading.
Thank you for listening throughout 2025.
We hope you stay with us in 2026.
- Gary Curneen
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In the final Modern Soccer Coach podcast of 2025, we step back from tactics and trends and ask a bigger question:
What will the game look like in 2026 and beyond?
Rather than reviewing downloads or highlights, this episode focuses on three ideas from 2025 that point directly toward the future of soccer coaching and player development.
Across the year on Modern Soccer Coach, conversations consistently returned to the same themes: clarity over complexity, individuality over rigid structure, and environments over outcomes.
In this episode, we explore:
• How modern game models may be limiting individual development
• Why more content does not always create better coaches
• The growing importance of methodology and clarity
• How youth environments shape the future of the professional game
This episode is for coaches who want to think beyond the next session and reflect on where the game is actually heading.
Thank you for listening throughout 2025.
We hope you stay with us in 2026.
- Gary Curneen
Trails Not Rails! Inside Vasco da Gama Methodology with Gabriel Bussinger
Modern Soccer Coach Podcast
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3 months ago
Trails Not Rails! Inside Vasco da Gama Methodology with Gabriel Bussinger
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Gary is joined by Gabriel Bussinger (Vasco da Gama) to explore their unique approach to elite player development.
Gabriel explains the following:
✨ What it means to be player-centered vs. game-centered
✨ Balancing chaos and organization in development
✨ Why methodology should grow from practice to theory—not the other way around
Standout quotes:
👉 “Rails confine talent. Trails give direction but leave freedom for creativity.”
👉 “Coaching is not the man inside the office. Coaching is walking with players, talking with them at breakfast, learning their culture, and caring for them as people.”
👉 “A Vasco player is technical, but above all, he is brave. He plays not only for the game, but for his family, his community, and to overcome the challenges of favela life.”
Modern Soccer Coach Podcast
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https://modernsoccercoach.mimentorportal.com/subscriptions
In the final Modern Soccer Coach podcast of 2025, we step back from tactics and trends and ask a bigger question:
What will the game look like in 2026 and beyond?
Rather than reviewing downloads or highlights, this episode focuses on three ideas from 2025 that point directly toward the future of soccer coaching and player development.
Across the year on Modern Soccer Coach, conversations consistently returned to the same themes: clarity over complexity, individuality over rigid structure, and environments over outcomes.
In this episode, we explore:
• How modern game models may be limiting individual development
• Why more content does not always create better coaches
• The growing importance of methodology and clarity
• How youth environments shape the future of the professional game
This episode is for coaches who want to think beyond the next session and reflect on where the game is actually heading.
Thank you for listening throughout 2025.
We hope you stay with us in 2026.
- Gary Curneen
