APP Flashcards
What is the Academy vision?
To play our role in establishing BCFC as a top 10 PL club.
Consistently develop and produce our home-grown individual players to play first team football.
Develop well rounded elite individuals that can grow and succeed in life, by providing player-centred and individualised support on and off pitch
What is the Academy Mission?
Produce the highest quality players capable for a top 10 PL team
Core Strategies: What are the 6 key areas of the programme that provide our direction?
- Player Development and Competition
- Talent Management and Pathways
- Emerging Talent
- Performance Support
- Welfare, Safeguarding and Education
- Leadership, Management, Operations and Administration
What are the 6 Academy key objectives?
- Who we are
- Competitive game time
- The Birmingham Player
- Competitive advantage
- Education & welfare
- High performance environment
KO: Who we are
A culture and identity where all individuals can achieve world-class standards, standards that are transferrable to a top 10 PL team and at international level.
KO: Competitive game time
Increase the percentage of professional minutes played each season for Academy graduates, with a minimum of 20% of the first team squad being made up of Academy players
KO: The Birmingham player
Increased asset value, year on year, of Academy graduate players in the professional game.
KO: Competitive advantage
Prepared to train and play to create the most robust athletic professional players.
KO: Education and welfare
Equip and empower individuals to have the knowledge, understanding and mindset to demonstrate the required qualities to be elite on a Premier League and International stage.
KO: High performance environment
Graded as “very good” in every aspect of EPPP as a Category 1 Academy.
PP: OBJ - who we are. CSF?
Deliver a LTAD programme that supports the physical progression of our players to compete at a top 10 PL club level.
PP: OBJ - competitive game time. CSF?
- Individualise each player’s physical journey (physical curriculum) through monitoring, design and implementation to
create the platform for players to physically perform at a top 10 PL club level. - Review and analyse match performance metrics.
- Introduce a performance reliability measurement system.
- To monitor training and match minutes for all players transitioned into first team and loans programme.
PP: OBJ - Birmingham player time. CSF?
- Adopt Academy values that create the culture and work ethic for high performance standards.
- Physical profiling of each player and how this fits the BCFC model and development of players to meet this demand (ILGs).
- Introduce a coach physical assessment plan on the impact of football.
PP: OBJ - Competitive advantage. CSF?
- Highest testing scores on physical benchmarking in all age groups.
- Create and implement a robustness of player scoring scale.
- Introduce a physical skill development model.
- Introduce recovery and wellness markers for individual player support to include hydration and nutrition.
- Increase match and training availability, whilst decreasing the re-injury rate.
- Reduce injury incidence with growth and maturation and body composition through age-specific tracking.
- Implement an illness prevention plan
PP: OBJ - Education & Welfare. CSF?
- An Academy wide education plan to increasing knowledge for players, staff, parents and host families.
- Introduce Academy research and development projects to include Category 1 study visits.
- Reflective analysis to review the delivery of the physical performance department.
PP: OBJ - High performance environment. CSF?
- Creating a competitive culture through practice and adoption of Academy values for staff and players and driving high standards
and accountability. - Multidisciplinary team (MDT) working relationships, communication and knowledge sharing across the Academy and 1st team.
- Creating areas of high performance by maximising all available staff, equipment and facilities.
What are the 5 dysfunctions of a team?
1- absence of trust
2- Fear of conflict
3- lack of commitment
4- avoidance of accountability
5- inattention to results
What are the main safeguarding academy policies?
- Employee safeguarding handbook
- Low level concern
- Complaints policy whistleblowing
- Policy photography and digital
- Imagery youth produced sexual
- Imagery anti-bullying
What goes under the ‘welfare umbrella’?
- ODOC - one day one conversation
- Blues for all
- Support the blues
- Safety first
What are the 4 BCFC first team principles?
- Intensity
- Connection
- Together
- Attack
