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No fuss, no jargon - just everything you need to run your team.","Trac Football. All rights reserved.",{"line1":113,"line2":113,"city":113,"state":113,"postalCode":113,"country":119},"United Kingdom",{"phone":113,"email":113},[122],{"url":123,"label":124,"platform":125},"https://x.com/tracbacapp","Twitter","twitter",[],{"success":4,"data":128},{"id":129,"slug":130,"title":131,"excerpt":132,"content":133,"featured_image":205,"published":4,"published_at":206},"6bda7c30-0a39-461c-876e-17129fd499c3","playbook-where-this-came-from","Where this playbook came from","The five-principle coaching philosophy behind Trac — written by Adam, the bloke who built it. It started with the Springhead Spartans in 2021 and a team of eight-year-olds who needed to actually win sometimes.",{"blocks":134},[135,143,149,153,157,184,188,192,196],{"id":136,"data":137,"type":142},"pwt-hero-001",{"align":138,"headline":139,"subtitle":140,"highlight":141,"useGradient":11},"left","Where this came from","The five-principle coaching philosophy behind Trac. It started with the Springhead Spartans in 2021 and a team of eight-year-olds who needed to actually win sometimes.","The playbook","hero",{"id":144,"data":145,"type":148},"pwt-intro-001",{"content":146,"maxWidth":147},"\u003Cp>Before any of this was an app, it was a Sunday morning problem.\u003C/p>","md","wysiwyg",{"id":150,"data":151,"type":148},"pwt-spartans-001",{"content":152,"maxWidth":147},"\u003Ch2>The Springhead Spartans, 2021\u003C/h2>\u003Cp>My journey started with the Springhead Spartans. Under-8s. Springhead FC had too many kids wanting to play — enough for two teams at that age (5-a-side back then). My lad Joseph was quite new to football, but he was desperate to start playing. He'd been to training a couple of times and loved it. We needed two teams.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I took all the new kids, added a couple more, and that became the Springhead Spartans U8.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I'd played football all my life. Saturdays and Sundays — my youth basically revolved around it. But I hadn't started this young. Eight years old. How on earth were these muppets going to play a game of football?\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I watched them in training. A couple of them were OK, could strike a ball. One could dribble. My lad took a shine to being in goal.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I tried ball-skills sessions, drills, rondos pulled off YouTube. 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