Grassroots coaching is vital for the future success of the national side, says England coach Gary Neville.

"If we can get more quality, higher quality, a better quantity of coaching in this country, we will produce better footballers - that is a fact," Neville told BBC Radio 5 live. Sport .

And on the subject of grassroots coaches he said: "They are everything."

The Football Association's new 100m national football centre will be officially opened on Tuesday.

The 330-acre St George's site near Burton upon Trent will be a training base for England teams and a centre of excellence dedicated to increasing the number of quality coaches and managers.

The FA is also implementing changes in youth football that include smaller pitches and goals and has created new "youth modules" to aid youngsters' development.

Former Manchester United defender Neville said: "The information passed to six to 14-year-olds is absolutely critical."

The 37-year-old, who joined Roy Hodgson's backroom team in the summer, added: "I was so lucky I was given the right information. I had good coaches, my parents put the right principles into me."

While playing for Manchester United, he won all of the domestic trophies at least once and was part of the Champions League side that beat Bayern Munich in 1999.

Neville won 85 caps for England in his 13-year international career and represented his country at Euro 96, Euro 2000, Euro 2004, World Cup 98 and World Cup 2006.

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A survey recently conducted online by professional coaching network Life Coach Directory, has revealed that the most common reason for a client to seek health coaching is for weight loss.*

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Overcoming unhealthy eating habits that have manifested over a lifetime is sadly not a simple case of eating less and exercising more. Half the battle is finding the motivation to begin, and the other half is keeping the progress going.

During the past decade the fad diet concept exploded, with many individuals seeing them as the answer to their weight woes. Think cabbage soup, fasting, low-carb and low-calorie fad diets such as these pledge to make you lose weight fast but in the main dont produce sustainable results.

We should know by now that if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and any diet that promises a quick and effortless route to losing weight should set alarm bells ringing. There is no magic pill, and there is certainly no easy way.

Fad diets are often extreme, sometimes demanding avoiding entire food groups or surviving on only liquids. Whilst these radical rules might be fine for short bursts of time, they cannot be maintained on a long-term basis and could even lead to illness.

So if dieting is not the answer to long-term weight loss, what is?

Weight loss and a healthy lifestyle should always be a learning experience, and you she be able to walk away feeling confident and motivated that you can continue and sustain your progress independently. Weight loss isnt simply about changing what you eat; it is about changing your approach and attitude towards food.

It is for this reason that many individuals seek health coaching.

Health coaches aim to help individuals find the motivation needed to stick to their diet, even after the initial drive begins to fizzle out. It is not about trying fad diets or exploring the emotional relationship we have with food it is about introducing structure and attainable goals to motivate and prevent old habits from raising their heads.

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Russia boss Fabio Capello has admitted that he's finding it difficult to adapt to his new surroundings, but is determined to overcome any obstacles as he tries to guide the national team to World Cup 2014.

The former England coach replaced Dick Advocaat at the helm after a disappointing Euro 2012 campaign, but he has so far struggled to settle.

"Everything is written in Cyrillic, and it's difficult to read and to learn the Cyrillic alphabet," Capello stated to UEFA.com. "I always need a translator, and it makes it a bit more difficult to say what I want to say. Sometimes the right expression, the right word, helps you a lot. So I would say it's really difficult.

He added, "But as with all difficult challenges, I like to take them on.

"I have just arrived and I am living in a hotel. Moscow is a beautiful city. Russia is a nation full of development. You see many nice things. For example all the stadiums are built for the World Cup, the infrastructure, so it's really a nation worth living in."

Russia is currently preparing for the World Cup 2014 qualifiers against Portugal and Azerbaijan.

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Jamie Carragher has a job for life at Liverpool.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has assured the former England defender there will be a place for him at the club to pursue his coaching ambitions when he does stop playing.

Carragher is no longer an automatic choice for the club he joined at the age of 13, but Rodgers said: "Jamie still has a lot to offer this club - and he is in such great physical and mental condition that he could carry on playing here for a few more years.

"Of course, the time comes for even the greatest players to sit down and think about what they want to do once they have stopped playing.

"Jamie is a great student of the game. He can go down whatever route he wants and I am sure the club will sort that out for him when the time comes.

"Whether it is coaching, scouting, or recruitment is up to Jamie. But whatever it is there will be a role here for him because he is an iconic figure at Liverpool."

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LAS VEGAS, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Brad Sugars, the Founder and Chairman of ActionCOACH, the world's number one business coaching company, will present a free business coaching career opportunity event in Las Vegas at the Green Valley Ranch Resort & Casino on Thursday, October 18th, 2012.

The live presentation will be offered at two different times: from 8AM to 11AM and from 4PM to 7PM.

There is no cost to register or attend this event. However, due to the current demand for business opportunity events, interested candidates must select their time and register online at: http://businesscoachingopp.eventbrite.com

"Over the last 19 years we've led the business coaching industry, but right now, with the economy the way it is, we need more Business Coaches," Sugars said.

ActionCOACH is headquartered in Las Vegas, and Sugars will present the opportunity here before he hits the road and holds similar events all over the country.

"Today, there are more business owners and CEOs needing coaching than ever before and we want to present this opportunity to local candidates here in Las Vegas," he said.

"Our clients get great results meaning we make them money.In fact, research shows we make them an extra $10.80 in bottom line profit for every dollar they spend with us, and that means they stay so for us to grow and take on more clients, we need more coaches. I'm looking for the 'best of best' to join our growing team of Business Coaches in Las Vegas."

Sugars and his company, ActionCOACH, have won several major international business awards and he is also the author of 15 books on business.

Sugars is looking for business savvy and results-driven individuals who can follow a systemized path to success in the Las Vegas valley.

According to Sugars, the top Business Coaches tend to be:

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The statue of Jody Conradt unveiled Friday inside the Erwin Center honors the countless women who have achieved success during her 36 years at the University of Texas, the legendary basketball coach told the crowd gathered for the dedication ceremony.

Conradt won 900 games and the 1986 NCAA championship as the Texas womens coach, her tenure stretching from 1976 to 2007. She coached 28 players who went on to play professionally, and four who competed at the Olympics. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998.

The 71-year-old Conradt has received many honors, but this was one different. She watched with curious eyes Friday afternoon as a seven-foot, 600-pound bronze statue of the Texas icon was unveiled before friends and family on the arenas concourse.

The statue, created by New Jersey-based artist Brian Hanlon, shows Conradt flashing the Hook em Horns hand signal.

About 600 people, including former Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt, crowded into the Lone Star Room at the Erwin Center for the hour-long ceremony. Conradt joined the late congresswoman and civil rights champion Barbara Jordan as the only women to be honored with statues on the UT campus.

This statue represents many things, and it comes on the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which was significant for all women, not just women in sports, Conradt said. This law has given tremendous opportunities you never could have imagined before. I hope every young woman will feel a sense of pride that this university values their commitment and talent. Its one of the most dramatic statements a university can make.

Title IX, signed in law by President Nixon in 1972, paved the way for Conradt and women to prosper in a field previously dominated by men. One of the first milestones came when the university created the department of womens athletics in 1975.

Conradt made the crowd roar with laughter when she spoke about a headline in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram announcing her hiring at Texas: Woman hired at man-sized salary.

And that was all of $17,000, Conradt said.

Also in 1975, Texas hired a driven Donna Lopiano as the departments first athletics director. Conradt described her longtime friend and associate as the pushiest Yankee ever to come to the university, an unlikely person to come to a conservative place.

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It could not have been a better start to life as an A-League coach for John Aloisi.

Outfoxing the A-League's best credentialled coach with a perfectly employed battle plan, and upsetting the competition's biggest club and crosstown rivals in front of a huge crowd.

Aloisi's Melbourne Heart left Etihad Stadium on Friday night with three well-deserved points - the 2-1 win over Melbourne Victory the club's first opening round win in their three-season history - and a swagger in their step.

Few had considered Heart and their rookie coach as serious finals hopes.

They'll be reconsidering after Aloisi's clear tactical nous was executed to the letter by his players, some of whom are clearly revitalised under the former Socceroo.

Aloisi said the Heart had heavily rehearsed a high pressing game, hoping to stifle Victory coach Ange Postecoglou's noted passing style.

"The players were getting sick of it at training. Players like to touch the ball and feel the ball, but we had to make sure we did it properly," Aloisi said.

"It was important we won our first game, because the last two years we've started slowly. We needed to get off to winning ways.

"Then the players get confidence from a win, and a good performance. We played well, but we know we can still improve a lot more."

Attacker David Williams, who had a less than impressive first season at Heart, was dangerous throughout with six shots on goal including scoring the opener on 14 minutes.

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Holistic Learning Centers makes available free life coaching products every month as incentive for as many people as possible to spread the word about their global educational campaign to achieve the critical mass necessary to Save TheHumans

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In order to spread the word about the existence of and power behind critical mass, HLC offers a different, free life coaching product for 48 hours, from midnight on the first of each month until midnight on the second in exchange for help spreading the word.

HLC has coined this exchange the Inner Net of One Abundance Exchange. To get the free products one must agree to forward the Save TheHumans eBook to as many people as possible and like HLCs Life Coaching school on Facebook in order to remain in community on the internet so that the critical mass on the inner net can begin to take root.

The Save TheHumans pledge is: I commit to respond with ability to help remove suffering from the world. I grok that the first step to removing suffering from the world is to successful remove my own suffering first, because I can only give away what is inside of me.

HLC extends this offer to all Independent life coaches as well as to all those willing to take action to be part of the global solution.

Sabrina Rose Holistic Learning Center 888-452-0878 x 107 Email Information

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Established, Los Angeles-Based Career and Life Coach, Daisy Swan, Provides Readers with Inspirational Stories and Practical Tools for Career Transition

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In the book, Daisy Swan reveals the path to success as she provides practical advice and shares stories of career coaching clients of all ages, in varied industries and lines of work. These clients representing the four LifeStages (http://www.daisyswan.com/career-coaching/life-stage-overview/) Daisy has identified as Beginning, Roadblock, Authenticity, and Wisdom have all successfully transitioned into satisfying new work situations that the reader can also find.

I know all about the hurdles to finding or creating a life of fulfilling work, says Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC, founder of Los Angeles-based career and life coaching firm, Daisy Swan & Associates. We work with clients who are in tricky situations those looking to make a career transition, or those who are facing unemployment or are underemployed. In all cases, everyone wants to figure out how best to manage this time of change. My work with clients demystifies the process of knowing and finding their purposewhat they want. Clients want work that really fits with who they are work that gives them a life, not just a living. We all work best when our work authentically resonates with us.

Making Work Work: Secrets from a Career Coach's Office has already garnered praise from a number of Daisy Swans esteemed colleagues. Randall Williams, former Director of the Career Center at the University of California Riverside, and former Director of the Graduate School of Management Career Center, University of California Irvine, says, this book is filled with interesting real life examples, excellent career planning resources, and targeted exercises designed to help guide you toward that ideal job! The advice is simple yet at the same time very profound.

Keith Vaughn, Interim Executive Director of the Career Resource Center, and Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions at The Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, adds, Swan offers straight-forward advice with just the right amount of compassion from an experienced career coachthis is a useful guide to help you make a successful transition from where you are to the place you want to be.

Making Work Work: Secrets from a Career Coach's Office provides the reader with support and motivation through thought-provoking exercises, suggestions of simple actions to take, and valuable resources. As Daisy notes, Ive talked with so many people who tell me they just dont have a clue how to even begin to make a career change. I wrote this book for them. This process can lead to a sometimes surprising, but decidedly enriching life that includes work that works for the individual. This book is an inside peek at the process that I undertake with my private coaching clients, in a unique format that empowers the reader to grab the reins of their own career, to make a transition if they want, and to find what it is that will satisfy them most.

Daisy continues, Weve all heard the statistics that vary depending on the source about how the average American changes jobs anywhere from seven to ten times in their prime working years. Never have these numbers rung truer than in todays economy and job market. This book is meant as an added tool for those millions of job-changers out there, who are seeking professional guidance and support in their life and career transition.

Daisy Swan, career strategist, coach and counselor, has worked with hundreds of clients over the past 20 years. Known for her forbearing yet straightforward approach, Daisy guides her clients to clarify their career direction, and supports them as they find and take the necessary steps to realize their professional and personal goals.

Daisy has been a career professional in private practice for 15 years, serving a broad population of senior executives, attorneys, sales and IT professionals, writers, producers, actors and new grads. Daisy has extensive interviewing and recruiting experience and is knowledgeable about a wide variety of business sectors, nationwide.

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The other day I looked at the dates of my early postings. I was late some weeks, posting after eight or nine days, then Id catch up by posting every five days. By my one-year anniversary, I had my act together and began posting every Monday without fail. Sometimes Id post at 11:35 pm, but I always made it. Last year I established a concrete deadline where I post by 3:00 every Monday afternoon. Currently, Im ahead of schedule, writing and then posting articles to appear at a later date.

Ive come a long way.

Accomplishing worthwhile goals isnt easy. Along the way to achieving what you seek, there may be complications. One can get easily discouraged and wonder why they decided to pursue the track they chose to follow in the first place. However, if you take the time to both celebrate accomplishments along the way to your ultimate goal, and honor yourself by giving yourself a chance to enjoy other aspects of your life, it helps to make the process not appear insurmountable. - from an article by Career Coach Tony Calabrese on Selfgrowth.com

One-year anniversaries dont mean much to me. One year could be a fluke, but not seven. A seven-year commitment doesnt happen by accident. Finding a home for myself within a niche gives me a sense of security as a writer. To know Ive committed for seven years, poured time, energy and attention into it. Without a doubt, I know I can and will continue on.

While Im celebrating seven years of officially writing the life coaching column, I know this work didnt just come out of nowhere. Ive been writing about self-acceptance and success since I was a 16 year old lying on my bed scribbling in a diary almost two and a half decades ago. But I was not conscious of what I was doing. In the words of Ansen Dibell, I spent the last seven years bringing my unconscious craft under greater conscious control.

Recognizing that 20 years have passed since a graduation or that you have been married for 10 years or that you have been working for a company for 20 years allows you to think through all that you have accomplished in that time. It is also an opportunity to take stock and think about what you would like to do differently in the future. - from an article by Art Markman on psychologytoday.com.

Im proud of this achievement and Im basking as Martin Seligman urges us to do in Authentic Happiness. This seven-year anniversary was not given to me, I earned it. Spending hours on end searching for books. Interviewing experts and examining my own life for hidden lessons. Writing and writing and writing. Fighting with articles that just wouldnt work. Abandoning some, only to revive them later.

Its been a journey.

Another thing I discovered through this practice was that my fears of stopping to celebrate would result in settling or lack of motivation to move forward were unfounded. Quite the opposite resulted. I got to enjoy the NOW, feel a heck of a lot better about myself, and build a track record for future successI could trust in and rely on myself. from Paula Gregorowiczs blog on Blogher.com

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