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S3 E2 - Josh Tilley
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On Todays Episode we have Josh Tilley. Josh is a UEFA B & FA Youth award licensed football coach. Josh lived and worked in 4 different countries to date plus experience working for 4 different UK professional clubs and coached in a variety of other countries. Enjoy!
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Transcript
00:00:10
Craig Birtwistle
Thank you.
Introduction: Meet Josh Tilley
00:00:17
Craig Birtwistle
Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Session Share, the coach's podcast. My name is Craig Bertussell and I'm delighted today to have Josh Tilley with us. Josh is a UEFA B coach and has the FA Coach Award license for football coaching.
00:00:32
Craig Birtwistle
He's lived and worked in four different countries to date, plus experiences working with four different UK professional clubs and coaches in in variety of many countries.
00:00:42
Craig Birtwistle
Plenty of grassroots experience from his own teams. Josh, that's an impressive resume right there and really looking forward to how you grew within the game, experiencing so many different countries and cultures.
00:00:56
Craig Birtwistle
So how you doing today, Josh? You're
00:00:58
Josh Tilley
I'm good, thank you. Appreciate you having me on.
00:01:00
Craig Birtwistle
welcome. Really looking forward to it. So Josh, tell us how it all started.
Early Coaching Journey
00:01:05
Craig Birtwistle
What's what's your background in football?
00:01:07
Josh Tilley
um So I started fairly young. um I was 15 at the time, still playing grassroots football myself. and um My brother, who was five at the time, just started doing like a little Saturday session at the grassroots club that I was playing for.
00:01:23
Josh Tilley
and So one of the coaches that used to coach me at primary school um just asked me to come along and help out on a Saturday morning. and They then put me through my level one, which back then was like a week's course.
00:01:35
Craig Birtwistle
Bye.
00:01:38
Josh Tilley
I think now you can do it online. But um yeah, so went and done the level one and was just helping out on a Saturday morning, really. There was about 35 to six-year-olds. There was four coaches.
00:01:50
Josh Tilley
um And then I was kind of just there to help collect collect the cones and help the kids go and get their their water and things like that, really, but just to get a little feel for it. um And then, yeah, kind of left it for a little bit, um was just focusing on playing myself. I then went to college for two years.
00:02:07
Josh Tilley
And whilst at college, me and a couple of my mates were doing some lunchtime and after school sessions. um Again, just getting a little feel for it and kind of the partnership that the college had with the primary schools, we were just kind of helping out.
00:02:21
Josh Tilley
um But yeah, again, at the time, my focus was still playing.
00:02:23
Craig Birtwistle
Thank you.
00:02:25
Josh Tilley
So um the college was like a play in an academy. So I was training and playing ah three or four times a week. And I didn't know if I wanted to go and try and play in America or i was just joined a a men's team then at the time as well. So my focus was still on playing. But um then, yeah, about 2017, I left college.
00:02:45
Josh Tilley
um went and actually started to be a trainee winder fitter. And then one of my mates at college basically agreed to run a under-15 team at Harlow Town.
00:02:57
Josh Tilley
um And he asked me if I wanted to go in and basically assist with him. um So I thought, yeah, why not? And then after three games, ah he said that his uni commitments were were kind of too much, so he was going to leave.
00:03:10
Josh Tilley
And then again, it it kind of fell on me. Either I leave with him or I take the team on myself. um so i kind of look at that moment as a defining moment in my kind of journey so far because i think if i said no um i don't know what i'd be doing but ah yeah i agreed to do it um And a bit of a unique situation, really. I was only 17 myself, nearly 18, and I'm coaching under 15s. So literally like two or three years only younger than me.
00:03:38
Josh Tilley
ah So, yeah, when I look back at it, it was a definitely, I look back now and think some cringe moments because I'm kind of coaching off, ah just what I thought through my playing career, really. That was it. But um yeah, I had a couple of couple of seasons, under-15s and under-16s with Harlow Town.
00:03:38
Craig Birtwistle
Mm-hmm.
International Coaching Experience
00:03:59
Josh Tilley
um And then just someone approached me on LinkedIn about going coach in America. um so um Kind of went through the process of that, had a couple of like chats online and then agreed to do it. So moved out to America 2019 for UK international soccer.
00:04:17
Josh Tilley
um And I was there for three months. So ah coaching with them and then done a little bit for AYSO United, which is quite a well-known club in in the States. um So, yeah, coaching there for three months.
00:04:29
Josh Tilley
um At the time, I was only 19. So i think looking back, i I think I was still a little bit too young, and immature to really fulfil the opportunity and and really embrace it. So I decided to come back to the UK and um And through, I just completed my level two before I went out to America. So someone I met on on my level two had kind of contact with West Ham.
00:04:56
Josh Tilley
and So he managed to get me in and kind of started in a secondary school doing some sort of one-to-one mentoring work and PE support stuff.
00:05:09
Josh Tilley
And then I was coaching basically every evening the week for them on different development centres and advanced centres, um as you do. and Also went back to Harlow at the time with my same team. So um they were under 18s then as well. So was kind of straight back into the UK Monday to Sunday, full on just doing as much as I can. um Yeah, I'd done a couple of years at at West Ham.
00:05:32
Josh Tilley
um My role kind of changed slightly. in the second year. So I wasn't working in the secondary school anymore. I went into primary schools and was doing a lot of the Premier League primary stars um coaching work that a lot of the clubs run.
00:05:46
Josh Tilley
and And then also rather than coaching on the development centres, I got my own team with West Ham. So I had the under 11s performance academy. um But annoyingly, it was COVID and time then. So I only had, think, five or six games of them across the season.
00:06:03
Josh Tilley
And And then, yeah, um kind of West Ham, the distance that I was travelling from where I was based, it's kind of going from Hertfordshire into London, then down all the way to Basildon and Essex, then back home, I was doing over 100 miles a day and and it just became ah too much, really. So I went to Watford, which was a lot closer to home um and, again, was just doing some kind of schoolwork for them. Yeah.
00:06:30
Josh Tilley
And then, yeah, that that was good, really good experiences and stuff, but um decided to leave and then I went to Norwich. and That was kind of the next big jump for me, ah think, in my career because I took on a more of a coordinator role.
00:06:43
Josh Tilley
So, yeah.
00:06:45
Craig Birtwistle
Thank you.
00:06:45
Josh Tilley
I was kind of head coach on a college program um at school based in Biggleswade. And then we had two development centers in Harlow and Ware that I was the coordinator for. So kind of dealing with all the ah the parents' emails, dealing with the coaches, trying to get coaches to coach on on the centers and then and run through how how we wanted it to it to look and things like that.
00:07:10
Josh Tilley
We managed to grow it to a third centre in the end. so and And then, yeah, done that for a year and a half, which really, um gave me some new skills ah other than just coaching on the pitch, kind of put me in a bit more of a leadership role, um which i so I really enjoyed and and took a lot from it.
00:07:29
Josh Tilley
um And then, yeah, my when I left America early, i kind of always had the the itch to try and go abroad again because I really wanted to see, one, if it was for me or it actually wasn't, or and two, just kind of test myself once i was a little bit older.
00:07:45
Josh Tilley
um It's really random how it came about. um i was just in my office one day and just indeed just sent out um an email saying like there was a role come up with Juventus Academy in Kuwait and in Saudi Arabia.
00:07:59
Josh Tilley
and So I applied for both, um had an interview with both. um And at the time, i didn't i was actually very happy in my job at Norwich. I wasn't actually actively looking to go anywhere.
00:08:09
Josh Tilley
Didn't actually know if I wanted to go abroad, but just thought I'd apply, have the chats and stuff.
Opportunities in Asia
00:08:14
Josh Tilley
um And then, yeah, next minute I know I got a call one day and they just said that they would like to to take me on.
00:08:21
Josh Tilley
and And then, yeah, just jumped at the opportunity, thought why not? um Again, didn't really didn't really think too much into it until I guess I'm bored in the flight to go out there.
00:08:31
Craig Birtwistle
Hmm.
00:08:31
Josh Tilley
um And then, yeah, had... Had 10 months out there last season, which was in turn probably one of the best decisions I've ever made for like my personal and self, but then also my career.
00:08:44
Josh Tilley
um And then, yeah, at the end of the season, um kind of had ah had a few interviews with Spurs, where I am now, and then got offered a new job to come out to Hong Kong and and then work for Spurs all across Asia, basically, which I'm currently doing at the moment.
00:09:04
Craig Birtwistle
That's absolutely fantastic. What I was really impressed with there was just how much you've emerged yourself in the game. And I've always said that from myself, like I live in America myself and I've been coaching here for since 2005 now, believe it or not, in this country.
00:09:21
Craig Birtwistle
And I find that when I was in England, I was coaching, I was coaching at high level. but I was part time still. So it was only a few days a week. And then I came to America and I was like coaching every single night. And I truly believe that's how I got better just by emerging myself in the game. Would you agree with that with yourself, Josh?
00:09:40
Josh Tilley
Yeah, 100%. I think that it's a conversation that a lot of coaches have. And that's the problem, I think, with the UK, because um a lot of the full-time roles back in England are obviously academy roles with higher age groups. And obviously you need your A licence and however many years experience. And it then falls on kind of me growing up, a lot of the the school stuff and sessions that I'd done.
00:10:05
Josh Tilley
um to kind of fill my full-time job um a lot of people don't necessarily want to do or they don't want to go into schools because people kind of see that it's not glamorous um and the amount that you have to kind of work as well like like i ah said when i was at west ham i'm probably i'm in a school um nine o'clock in the morning doing nine till three at at school and then you've got to drive somewhere to do a development center uh in the evening and depending on where it is and stuff you're driving between these times and that so you're doing
00:10:26
Craig Birtwistle
Thank you.
00:10:35
Josh Tilley
a really long day every day, um kind of just to make your yourself and your name reputation um get hold of really at a club. But um I think it's ah it's a definitely a problem that a lot of coaches face with the UK.
00:10:52
Josh Tilley
um And kind of the same for me now, the position I'm in at the moment, um trying to move on to do my next badge to get on my UEFA or my Advanced Youth Award.
00:11:03
Josh Tilley
trying to find the right opportunity that will allow me to get on one of them and courses ah within the UK is becoming quite difficult.
00:11:11
Craig Birtwistle
Wow. And the next question I was thinking about with everything that you've said, you've had the fortune of being able to travel the world, coaching a game that you
Challenges of Coaching Abroad
00:11:23
Craig Birtwistle
love. And you've been able to from what I heard was you've coached in England, you've coached in Saudi Arabia, you've coached in America, you're now coaching in Hong Kong.
00:11:32
Craig Birtwistle
How have you dealt with um one language barriers and two ah culture barriers? Like, for example, where we grew up in England, for example, it you're emerged in it all the time, 24 seven.
00:11:46
Craig Birtwistle
If you like the sport, you're always involved in it. um Whereas like in America, for example, I coach some players that probably don't even think about it until they arrive at the field. Do know what mean?
00:11:56
Josh Tilley
yeah
00:11:57
Craig Birtwistle
So how have you dealt with those sort of situations?
00:12:01
Josh Tilley
That was definitely something that I found when I went to America in 2019.
00:12:04
Craig Birtwistle
Thank you.
00:12:04
Josh Tilley
And I mean, since then, it's grown even more, like obviously the high profile names that go into the MLS and stuff like that. um I actually found the work that I'd done with the AYSO United um was down in Santa Clarita on a Friday night. The players were really engaged.
00:12:21
Josh Tilley
I worked with a lot of female players between under 12s and under fifteen And obviously the American women's team was really strong and always has been. So the they were really buzzing for it. But I found a lot of the work that was doing day to day in the evenings with UK international soccer was kind of what you said. um Kids just turning up, I guess, because their parents wanted to take them and stuff.
00:12:41
Josh Tilley
And being a young coach myself at the time, probably found that quite difficult because you're trying to have to motivate kids that maybe don't want to be there, and especially younger kids as well. You're working on behavioural management.
00:12:42
Craig Birtwistle
right.
00:12:54
Josh Tilley
and things like that. um Still being quite young at the time, I think. At the time, I didn't realise it, but it stood me in good stead for like my career down the line. And then, yeah, like you said, Q8 last year um was unbelievable, really, because it was a totally different culture.
00:13:11
Josh Tilley
Never experienced anything like it before. um I was really lucky in the sense that Majority of the kids spoke English, so a lot of them go to international schools or had to um a good understanding of English, so I was lucky um in that sense. There wass a few players that I coached that didn't really speak English and then you'd kind of use the players to help translate for you and stuff like that.
00:13:34
Josh Tilley
um but the actual different culture and the the environment and was really, really like good for me to kind of just immerse myself in it, and being in a completely different environment and just really like buzz off it and enjoy it. Like i love my time there. So um that was good. And then the current role I'm in now is probably,
00:13:54
Josh Tilley
um the most challenging it's been with language barrier like you said because it's the first time in my career i've been working with translators um so wherever i've been maybe in china or um korea or places like that we normally have a translator with us but Obviously, the translator that's with us is normally someone that's got the best English, but doesn't mean necessarily that they're in immersed in football.
00:14:20
Josh Tilley
So they sometimes don't really understand the football terminology or the words that maybe myself might use.
00:14:23
Craig Birtwistle
you
00:14:26
Josh Tilley
So that becomes an extra challenge because...
00:14:28
Craig Birtwistle
well like that
00:14:29
Josh Tilley
what I'm saying, I don't necessarily know what's then being repeated back to the players. Um, and my first week in this job, um, when I left England, I went straight to China, um, and literally was just chucked straight into it. and And that week really, um, taught me a lot. And bearing in mind, I'm going out there, already had nine years coaching experience by then, just on my UEFA B, felt really positive for myself. And that first week just put me back down a few pegs and gave me a reality of, um,
00:14:58
Josh Tilley
even the basic things like simplifying my sessions and my word in a lot more. um Just to to to try and get the best at the sessions and and make it flow because again, yeah, working with the translators for the first time was, ah yeah, definitely a new one.
00:15:14
Craig Birtwistle
I bet it made your ah demonstrations really on point as well, didn't it?
00:15:17
Josh Tilley
Yeah, that's it. It was, um People, look I've been reading a lot of stuff on LinkedIn lately saying how important it is for coaches to still and keep up with their own technical stuff as well, because obviously a lot of players um learn better by actually looking and seeing it.
00:15:34
Josh Tilley
So being able to demonstrate it to a a good standard is is just as important sometimes.
00:15:36
Craig Birtwistle
amendment
00:15:39
Josh Tilley
So yeah, 100% the demos and the really basic demos. kind of wording was really important. um Because there was a video that I'd done in Cambodia. We'd done a session there and it got posted on Facebook by loads of people and got loads of shares and stuff. And when I watch watched it back, I was looking at it and i was like, I sound really basic. It sounds like if someone was watching that, that knew what they were talking about with football coaching, they' would probably think like, he doesn't have a clue what he's saying. But in my head, I know I'm having to try and say the most
00:16:11
Craig Birtwistle
Thank
00:16:11
Josh Tilley
basic words to a translator that's really got no interest in football. um They're just kind of doing their job to help me as best as possible. So um it's been really good experience to try and um deal with that as well.
00:16:25
Craig Birtwistle
Well, for me as well, it's a case of so many coaches just overcomplicate the game as well because they think that's what coaching is. They make their terminologies too difficult to understand.
00:16:37
Craig Birtwistle
they kind of I liken it to a gym instructor via a personal trainer. A personal trainer doesn't want you to learn without them there. you know what I mean?
00:16:45
Josh Tilley
Yeah. like
00:16:45
Craig Birtwistle
Whereas like a gym instructor is basically going to give you the opportunity to learn so you can go do yourself. And that's what I feel a good coach is The fact that we we paint the scenario, we show them how to deal with the scenario and so on.
00:17:01
Craig Birtwistle
And I think the difference between a trainer and a coach is a coach is able to pass that information on in a... information that can be received by that player. So if you're talking about a ah child that doesn't know English too well, I think you really have to simplify it.
00:17:18
Craig Birtwistle
And I'll be honest, like even in America, the amount of times I've coached a kid and I've lost a kid because I've said the wrong words, I've said bib instead of pinny, I've said boot instead of cleat, I've said football instead of soccer.
00:17:29
Josh Tilley
Yeah.
00:17:31
Craig Birtwistle
yeah The moment you say that, they kind of like switch off with the younger ones. Like, oh, this this I can't understand this guy and so on. So this is a this is a great conversation, Josh.
00:17:39
Josh Tilley
Yeah.
00:17:41
Craig Birtwistle
We're just going to have a short break and we'll be right back.
00:18:25
Craig Birtwistle
Welcome back to Session Share. I'm here talking with Josh Tilly and we've been talking about Josh's experience of being able to travel the globe and basically coach so many players in different ways.
00:18:38
Craig Birtwistle
Josh, I'm sure a lot of people are listening to this and and are very interested to see how you went about this, how they could potentially do it. What advice would you give someone that's like getting into the game and wants to use this as an opportunity to like broaden their horizons?
Advice for Aspiring Coaches
00:18:55
Josh Tilley
Um, I'll definitely, I've had a few messages, ah especially over the last couple of years about abroad opportunities. Um, and I definitely think for me personally, as I mentioned before, it's been one of the best things that I've done to leave the UK and coach abroad, not just for my coaching career, but for me as a person to like grow up, um, and to kind of learn and involve yourself in, in different situations, out your comfort zone, in different environments. So, um,
00:19:24
Josh Tilley
For me, when I look back at like, a or if I was giving advice to to maybe coaches just starting out now, um one would be just to go and volunteer as much as you can within grassroots and just get a used to Because I think a lot of people now probably leave school leave uni and just think they're going to go into jobs straight away with a load of money and stuff like that.
00:19:42
Josh Tilley
um And as everyone knows, with coaching, doesn't really work like that. you know um A lot of the time, like for me, when I look back at it, America was... the first time I was getting paid in 2019, but I'd already done two years or three years before that coaching for voluntary.
00:19:57
Craig Birtwistle
wow
00:19:59
Josh Tilley
And I was still voluntary coaching for a couple of years after that when I came back to the UK. um So You don't know who you're going to meet. You don't know the connections that you're going to make.
00:20:09
Josh Tilley
People are obviously might be a step or two ahead of you in your career, but if you do a good job for them or you build a good trust and connection with them, they might then be able to take you further along their journey with them or open up gaps for you um in different places.
00:20:23
Josh Tilley
um And then also things like LinkedIn, um that's where I found the America role. um Just literally flicking through LinkedIn. There's so much um jobs and sharing things like that, that people post.
00:20:37
Josh Tilley
um Just send people messages and um reach out. I still do it now. um and just try and have conversations with people. Not everyone will always reply and stuff like that, but you just kind of have to deal with setbacks and um sometimes people are too busy or not interested and you kind of just have to keep going really.
00:20:56
Craig Birtwistle
Yeah, one of the biggest things, and i agree, especially with LinkedIn and X and stuff like that. I found that like I wish I knew this when I was in my 20s as opposed to in my 40s, for example, that um networking is key in this job, that you really need to get out there. You need to lean on as many people as possible, find the right people to give you advice, find the right people to shadow, as you said.
00:21:22
Craig Birtwistle
it's It's a real key area that i think gets neglected. You could be the best coach in the world, but if you don't have those connections, you're not going to rise up within the game. You're just going to stay at a certain level.
00:21:33
Craig Birtwistle
So I do agree the networking is a massive key um to getting forward.
00:21:40
Josh Tilley
Yeah, it's something I'm still trying to work on myself, to be honest. I'm not, um yeah, it's something that I'm still actively trying to do and that network a lot more than I do, really, to be honest.
00:21:51
Craig Birtwistle
And I think it's one of those things that like you never, it as long as you're still willing to grow and develop as a coach, I think the times when coaches get stagnant and think this is enough is kind of, that's the end of the road.
00:22:04
Craig Birtwistle
In my opinion, I've always been, and that's why I brought Obsession Share. That's why I brought the podcast. I'm always looking ways to grow, whether it's a book or whatever. So getting out there, making those connections can really help a coach develop both, not only create opportunities, but also to look at things from a different angle.
Lessons from International Coaching
00:22:25
Craig Birtwistle
And that's one of the major things I'm sure you've taken away with going to so many different countries and working with so many different coaches. I'm sure it's shaped your knowledge of the game and shaped your approach to the game. Is that right?
00:22:39
Josh Tilley
hundred percent 100%, yeah. And for me, I found in the UK, I was isolated quite a lot. I was normally working in places on my own. um Or you're doing sessions on a development centre, you're not getting to watch anyone else.
00:22:52
Josh Tilley
Whereas, especially last year in Kuwait,
00:22:53
Craig Birtwistle
Thank you.
00:22:55
Josh Tilley
working within a team of coaches some nights I got to work as an assistant back working as an assistant with people so I'm seeing how other people deliver or I'm being able to take a step back and just watch coaches um do their sessions and if you're working in a full-time environment which sometimes is easier abroad you're you're with these coaches day in day out so you're having so many different conversations it definitely and yeah opened it up all again for me and kind of just carried on my learning and
00:23:25
Craig Birtwistle
Fantastic. How has that shaped your philosophy, if you will? Like I know we've always been to these coaching environments where they say like it should be on a post-it note. It should fit on a post-it note where it's kind of like more buzzwords. I'm not exactly sure I agree with that philosophy because I think my way of coaching at the age of 43 was very different to my the way of coaching at 18.
00:23:50
Craig Birtwistle
for example, and I do feel like it has changed organically as as I've coached. So how has it affected you with working so many different cultures, environments, and so on?
00:24:04
Josh Tilley
um I think for a start when I was younger and I was kind of trying to make my name in coaching and kind of um build a career, i um was very kind of to the point and trying to just say like, this is how it's done and coaching kind of with authority rather than I kind of think to prove to myself that I was right rather than as I've grown and got a little bit older, and I've kind of matured enough to realise I don't know everything.
00:24:22
Craig Birtwistle
Thank you.
00:24:29
Josh Tilley
i'm going to get stuff wrong sometimes. I'm going to make mistakes. Not every single session is going to be great. and And ah I think when when i was younger and probably a lot of younger coaches, you probably feel a little bit embarrassed or think like you can't do that or you can't make mistakes.
00:24:42
Josh Tilley
So, yeah, One of the things that has changed me over the last couple of years is just in my, but probably my mindset mainly is just to continue learning. Like I'm nowhere, even where I am now and everything that I've done so far in my head, I'm nowhere near the finished product of where I believe I can get to, what my potential is and also what my career and my dreams are, which is why I got
Focus on Player Development
00:25:05
Josh Tilley
into coaching. So probably mindset is number one.
00:25:08
Josh Tilley
um And then, yeah, when we've like philosophy and stuff, one of my, um, The head coach in Q8 last year, he kind of said that sometimes my sessions focused a lot on the intensity.
00:25:23
Josh Tilley
So I would use my voice in the sense of like driving the intensity of the session over actually coaching the technical output of what I wanted the players to do.
00:25:31
Craig Birtwistle
Thank you.
00:25:33
Josh Tilley
so And it kind of hit home a little bit, whereas like I think I would leave a session and think, oh, that was a great session because it was buzzing, the ball was popping and stuff like that. And then when I reflect on it, I was like, how much technical did I actually coach?
00:25:48
Josh Tilley
How did the players actually take on lots of stuff for improvement? Did I just think it was a good session because I was speaking loads and the session was flowing? um So now sometimes... um it's okay to have a slower looking session or sometimes maybe it might be even a little bit more quiet, but you're actually, when you actually step in and coach, it's productive and you're actually working the player's technical ability, trying and improve them as a group, obviously, but then as individuals.
00:26:15
Josh Tilley
um I think that's definitely changed for me the last couple of years, the um the importance of actually coaching the individual player rather than the intensity and just the whole group.
00:26:26
Josh Tilley
Because the way I look at it now is, if each player in the team is improving, naturally the whole team will improve anyway. um So I think over the last couple of years, that's that's definitely hit home um and kind of at the main front of my my thinking and when I'm planning sessions now.
00:26:45
Craig Birtwistle
Interesting. interesting there's a lot of factors that come into that, though. It's a case of it's not that the session you were doing was wrong. It's it maybe it was not the right time of doing it. And that's what you're now analysed. Right. Because if it's like earlier on in the week, maybe the intensity can be up for periodisation. If it's a case of you're working with younger kids, maybe we need to dial back.
00:27:08
Craig Birtwistle
and look at more of that technique. Maybe they're in their coaching journey, in their player journey, I should say, that maybe we need to lessen the intensity to make sure the technique gets better or we increase the intensity to make sure the challenge gets more greater.
00:27:24
Craig Birtwistle
ah So that's a really good advice from your mentor there, if you will, in ah Kuwait. So that's really, really, really good stuff. um so Josh, this has been a fantastic call. um i really do appreciate it. Last question I want to leave you with was one that I always ask all my guests because we get to know the person as well as the coaching behind.
00:27:46
Craig Birtwistle
So what do you think your favorite moment is in sports? It could be as a coach, ah a p player, a fan, whatever you want.
00:27:54
Josh Tilley
Um, that's a good question that, uh, I'd probably say my favorite, uh, moment as a kid growing up would have been, um I'm a Chelsea fan. So Chelsea winning the champions league in 2012, uh, for the first time, always, um, kind of resonates with me, um, as was just that feeling as a kid.
00:28:16
Josh Tilley
Um, if I looked it more personally, um, I'd probably say last year in um, um
00:28:22
Craig Birtwistle
Yeah.
00:28:24
Josh Tilley
Alongside the Juventus coaching that I was doing, we were doing a uni team. um and last year were lucky enough to win the double. um And that was kind of my first a taste of success as being a coach rather than as a player.
00:28:39
Josh Tilley
um And just kind of the buzz that they gave me um and kind of seeing the way my mentor and Craig prepared for the kind of semi-final and the final and being within that team and then obviously seeing the like the cut the so-called game plan actually play out in front of you.
00:28:58
Josh Tilley
in a cup final and then obviously see what it meant to to the players at the end of it. um Yeah, that would probably always stick out for me.
00:29:06
Craig Birtwistle
Fantastic. Everything was great except for the fact that you're a Chelsea fan, but well we'll leave that for another day. So ah thank you so much, Josh, for your time. I've had a lot of fun and ah think our viewers will find this very beneficial.
00:29:22
Craig Birtwistle
So Josh, speaking about our viewers, um if they want to get in touch with you on socials, where can they find you?
Connect with Josh
00:29:29
Josh Tilley
So on Twitter or X as it's called now, Josh Tilly 26 is my handle. You can follow me on that. um Instagram, JT's Coaching and then also LinkedIn, Josh Tilly.
00:29:41
Josh Tilley
um Any of them, feel free to to reach out and I'll have a chat with anyone.
00:29:46
Craig Birtwistle
Fantastic. And as I say, it's all about building those connections. So I do recommend following Josh. I've had good experiences of following it on X myself and seeing a lot of good advice on there. and What I'll do as well is I'll put your information in the podcast description so our viewers can find it.
00:30:05
Craig Birtwistle
Well, that's all about the time we have for this episode of Session Share, the Coaches Podcast. Thank you again to Josh Tilley for joining us. Be sure to get in touch across all our socials to offer your opinion on everything we've discussed.
00:30:18
Craig Birtwistle
You can find the social media platforms we use in the podcast description as well as Josh and myself's information. This has been Session Share the Coaches podcast. Thank you for listening and thank you for coaching the beautiful game.