The former Grimsby FC legendary right back, one of the only 17 players in the history of English football to play more than 600 Football League matches for a single club, John McDermott, is having the enjoyable retirement life as a coach of Grimsby Institute. He spend most of his life in football especially in Grimsby.
In an interview, you can see the Grimsby legend shared his happiness of working for football to us – developing the youth player of Grimsby Institute. What’s more, he discusses his opinion about the football development all over the world from an angle of a youth coach.
Developing player – a fantastic job as a next step of the football life
“When you are coaching, sometimes you got frustrating because it is obviously you can’t play. And you rely on the player to do the job what you want to be done.”
John McDermott tried to start his coaching career just after his retirement in 2007. He was the assistant manager of Harrogate Town, the director of football at Cleethropes Town, and the manager of Alfreton Town since 2017.
“We have rewarding as well. We can get our team to be successful and the individual player can be successful. That’s the bonus. It is great when you win the title, win the league as long as the player getting better. that’s the bonus for us.”
In his career of coaching Grimsby Institute, about 15-20 players of the academy went to Grimsby Town FC to play professional football. To make the youngster dreams come true is also one of the driving forces of John to coach.
Europe and Asia – The concentration to football of the student makes the biggest different
“The training is good for the students. They on different courses. A few in sports, a few in media. As long as they are on the academic course, they give them a little bit trades or something to fall backs on in case of they don’t make the professional football. But it’s great if we can if we give them that dream.”
About the college entrance examination of China, John believed it could have a better way.
“I think it give the students a race. Sometimes it cleared their mind. If you sat in a classroom all day. Sometimes you can get stock in that. The concentration levels dropped. I think you can get a little bit exercise as well. It obviously keeps you fit and good for concentration.”
“When you are in the football, you get the nutrition and the diet. It is not just about running around and doing the basic football. You got all of the physical add along with it.”
“I think if football can add into the course, China is going to get better.”
As we see the chart, most of the countries with a large registered football population can get results and improve the performance of the national team.
It is obvious that China had the most football player of the world. But the registered player is much less even just a half of England. As John McDermott said, player in China are likely to concentrate more on their coursework than in football. They just “play” football. But if we take the player into the system. When they have more time to training instead of staying at the room, they had more chance to develop themselves and even most of them did not get into professional football. If there is some players of the school coming into the team of their city or town like what John McDermott do in Grimsby Institute, it is not only a kind of making their dreams come true but also adding the possible of creating another “Messi” and “Ronaldo”.
Young players developement are always the key to a club even a national team. John McDermott‘s persistence his player career makes him an example for every young player, and his efforts in the coaching career will show more and more results over time.
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