Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Alex Twitchen and Ben Oakley. It was first published in July 2019.

The Open University would like to acknowledge and thank the following people for their help and generous assistance with the writing of this course: Ed Cope (The Football Association), Steve McQuaid (ActionProvoked), Andy Bradshaw (UK Coaching), Jay Roper (UK Sport), staff and students at the University of Chichester, and Stuart Armstrong, Lucy Moore and Sion Kitson (Sport England).

Images

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Audio-visual

Video 3: courtesy of: Mark S Bennett MBE; PDScoach.com

Audio 1: Alan Keane and Stuart Armstrong; The Talent Equation

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