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Guy's experience
In 2009, Guy established Pro Football Support (PFS), to work alongside a number of leading professional football club academies, providing sport science and strength and conditioning support.
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During this time, PFS has provided support to 33 of the 44 Category 3 professional football club academies, since the start of EPPP.
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Since 2013, PFS has delivered the Premier League benchmark fitness testing provision with all Category 1 and Premier League Clubs (32 in total) across the U12-U23 age groups.
PFS has provided support to 73 professional football club academies through 32 - Cat 1 & Premier League Clubs, 8 - Cat 2 & 33 Cat 3 academies
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Guy has an enviable track record in supporting his full time and part time staff members in advancing into full time roles at professional football clubs either with their 1st team or academy age groups, 244 staff have been supported over the last 16 years
Guy has also supported 5 staff members to achieve PhD qualifications in professional or academy environments.
international
Over the last 16 years, Guy, through his PFS business, has delivered programmes across the globe.
This includes a significant contract in China with the introduction of football knowledge, sport science and technology, to schools and to aid the development of Chinese football academies. This also includes programme delivery in Belgium, Holland, Spain, Germany and Hungary.
Guy's Qualifications
Uefa a licence 2006
Academy Managers Licence 2006
FA Learning Psychology for soccer level 5 2007
Uefa B licence 2003
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MSc Sport & Exercise science 2006
Achieving a distinction.
bSc Sport & Exercise science 2005
First Class Honours
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2004-2009
Guy started his full time role at Scunthorpe United in 2004.
His roles included Assistant Academy Manager, Head Coach of the U16s, Assistant Coach of the U18s and 1st Team Fitness Coach.
One of Guy's major achievements was enabling Scunthorpe United to be the 2nd academy in the country to be based at a school with a 4G pitch. Scunthorpe United followed Watford FC who were the first, based at Harefield School.
Whilst working at Scunthorpe United, Guy was inspired by visits to AC Milan and Juventus.
Both visits included watching the academy age groups and the first teams train, discussions with the first team players and coaching staff, and a 1:1 session with Cesare Maldini, the Italian manager at the time.
From these experiences, Guy set up an arrangement with Stefano Eranio, for 3 trips over 3 years, to take young English players to Italy to be coached by the AC Milan coaches. Each event saw 14 players take the trip to Italy to have a fantastic coaching experience.
While working full time in football, Guy spent evenings at Leeds Beckett University receiving a distinction in the MSc in Sport & Exercise Science.
Guy's passion has always been to aid the development of academy footballers and achieving this qualification underlined this commitment and supported his objectives.
Guy completed his UEFA "A" Licence in this period.
Achieving a score of 81% for his 11 v 11 coaching drill, this was the highest score in the 2006 UEFA "A" qualification.
This course was a fantastic achievement as only eight out of the thirty six attendants passed the course. This moved Guy’s tactical passion for football even further forward.
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2002-2003
During this period, Guy worked full time at Sheffield Wednesday FC.
The roles that he undertook were U10 Age Group Coach, U16 Assistant Age Group Coach and 1st Team Skill Development Coach.
This was a great opportunity to work on technical and skill development across young age groups and also first team professional players.
During this time, Guy also finished his BSc Sport & Exercise Science qualification at Leeds Beckett University.
Whilst working full time in football, the knowledge gained from the sports science studies, helped him improve his coaching for players.
Guy also completed his UEFA "B" qualification during this time period. This was Guy's first major challenging football qualification.
This built Guy's football coaching confidence and enabled him to provide more detailed tactical coaching sessions across the different age groups.
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1998-2001
This was Guy's first opportunity to work at a top level academy with fantastic facilities.
Here, Guy used his skill development knowledge, obtained through playing and being committed to the Coerver Coaching skill development process.
Guy undertook skill development coaching with the U7 & U8 age groups at Sheffield United. This group included an 8 year old Harry McGuire.
During this timeframe, Guy also managed the Coerver Coaching arrangement in West Yorkshire, creating events for players to develop their technical skills. This was delivered at schools, clubs and academies. Guy delivered numerous personal training sessions, using content created by Alf Galustian (co-founder of Coerver) and former Chelsea great Charlie Cooke.
This also included teaching school PE staff at regional organised events on how to instruct technical football development sessions for their pupils
Guy's coaching career started at Halifax Town with the U13 age group. The role involved coaching two nights per week and undertaking the games on a Sunday morning against all other Northern-based academies.
Guy worked incredibly hard on improving both the training and game facilities for all academy age groups.
This opportunity started Guy's drive to help the development of academy players.
guy's achievements
in numbers
>49
Years of sporting passion, inspired by watching his first professional match at Old Trafford in 1976.
>10,000
Academy players supported
>28
Years of working full time in professional football.
73
Professional Football Academies worked with.
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