{"id":1374,"date":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/reports\/performance-journal-edition-17\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:12:41","slug":"performance-journal-edition-17","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/performance-journal-edition-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Journal: Edition 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Vieira’s Voyage<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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When Patrick Vieira announced his departure from New York City FC to take up the head coaching position at Ligue 1 Nice in his native France, his farewell statement said it all.<\/h4>\n
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By John Portch<\/h6>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning,\u201d he wrote, \u201cCity Football Group [CFG] and its leadership, particularly our Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Brian Marwood, Ferran Soriano and Marty Edelman have believed in me and have helped guide me through the last eight years of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Generally, valedictory statements offer mere platitudes but, as our cover story reveals, Vieira has reason to be grateful to CFG for spotting his coaching potential and offering him opportunities to coach upon his retirement from playing. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel it was for me,\u201d he tells Performance<\/em>. \u201cThere was a new generation coming through and I didn\u2019t feel I would cope with a mentality that I wasn\u2019t used to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slowly but surely Vieira\u2019s mind was changed as CFG gave him the grounding to test the waters in a safe and nurturing environment. Now, as he touches down in the south of France, we reflect on the first legs of a coaching career that gives all athletes, whether they aspire to coaching or are unsure if it\u2019s really for them, food for thought.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the coaching spectrum is the widely admired Lisa Alexander, who has won it all as Head Coach of the Australia netball team. She explains elsewhere in this edition that despite three decades of coaching experience she is far from the finished article: \u201cI make it pretty clear that I don\u2019t know everything and I don\u2019t know what the future may hold either.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theme of personal growth for both athletes and coaches runs through these pages, whether it is general athlete wellbeing at the University of Alabama\u2019s football program or talent development at Southampton FC\u2019s Academy. We also walk a mile in London Marathon winner Daniel Wanjiru\u2019s well-worn sneakers.<\/p>\n

As ever, we hope you unearth a useful nugget or two for your next project.<\/p>\n