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James Vaughan PhD
@JimiVaughan
UEFA A Coach | PhD Sports Coaching | Lecturer, Waikato Uni | Head Coach EIK | Ex-NZ Futsal | Exploring Culture, Creativity & Coaching
Stockholm, Sweden
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Apr 28, 2025
    Honored to present to FCB’s technical directors & coaches. Their humility, curiosity, & competence was outstanding. Deep conversation and sharp questions, the future is in good hands with this group. Great to see the 1st teams too — women playing, men training. Thanks Pau!
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    May 25, 2022
    1/14 New paper 📑 Skill development, in-game performance (incl. creativity), and psych wellbeing are influenced by social & cultural constraints - Stockholm case study, 18 months at AIK. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Open access - link & PDF here 👆🏻 highlights & acknowledgments below
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Feb 19, 2023
    Henry on K-of the game: Summary - Be aware of your teammates abilities & the opportunities that arise when combined with your abilities (e.g., shared affordances). There is a need to play based on shared affordances (relations) not just game models.
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    James Benge
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    Feb 15, 2023
    This is such great analysis of Haaland
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Nov 2, 2021
    Developing Creativity in Sport - NIH (@nih_sognsvann) presentation summarising my Ph.D. & work with @markstkhlm & colleagues at AIK. An ecological approach 4 team sports that led to great discussions about individual sports too @CalJonesJudo @stu_arm @JvanderB78 refs follow 1/3
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Apr 5, 2021
    Related ecological concepts presented @FCBmasia - in order to optimize skill learning & team coordination while remaining open to creativity players & teams should self-organize around skilled intentions that direct attention to environmental properties & information IN the game.
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    May 11, 2022
    1/11 Creativity as “the art of deception” Bilal shows skilled intentions when unbalancing opponents with subtle fakes & feints that demonstrate a “skillful responsiveness to multiple nesting & nested affordances simultaneously”. Affordances co-created by the positioning of AIK 🙌🏻
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    Mohamed Mohamud
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    May 10, 2022
    Jag har sagt att Bilal är en av Allsvenskans mest underskattade spelare - här försöker jag visa varför. Det jag tycker gör Bilal unik är hans förmåga att hitta in bakom mittfältarna. Hur han manipulerar lag att flytta sig ett par centimeter innan han slår in bollen. Sällsynt.
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Jul 15, 2021
    Love this from @LijndersPep "I get asked questions about pre-season fitness so many times. We are using the pre-season first and foremost to change the eyes and the mind of the players. What do we want and how do we want it?... 1/5
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Oct 14, 2024
    Parted ways with AIK (as @PatrikBrenning reported) after a surreal journey. 8 years of research led to new ways to coach, navigate complexity, and foster creativity (see video). Grateful to my co-creators & open to opportunities with those who value applied research
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Jul 8, 2024
    Bielsa eloquently highlights the same trends as my PhD. Moments of creativity are less frequent as mechanical conformity & corporate compliance take a strangle hold on the once beautiful game. We need change on and off the pitch, pedagogy, organizational structures, leadership
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    LUFC Worldwide ⚪️
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    Jul 6, 2024
    Every football fan should spend 2 minutes watching this video. Bielsa talking about the current state of football. Very poignant as we watch the worst European Championship of our generation
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Feb 25, 2025
    Why we don’t see more creativity in football? What has happened to the beautiful game? Very grateful to collaborate here and extremely thankful to see years of research artfully crafted into this modern masterpiece. youtu.be/CAguK4fLOiM?si… via @YouTube
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Jul 9, 2021
    NEW 📝 Football, Culture, Skill & Coaching -Culture shapes the skills & patterns of play that are valued & learnt IN football -Can we re-shape this👆🏻with session design & verbal instruction that shape skilled intentions? frontiersin.org/article/10.338… @markstkhlm @CarlWoods25 @stu_arm
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Sep 13, 2019
    📝Developing Creativity to Enhance Human Potential in Sport⚽️A Wicked Transdisciplinary Challenge FULL OPEN ACCESS - AIK & FCB R&D collaboration frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… many brilliant minds contributed @PlayerDP @myfastestmile @DHrtin @markstkhlm @uppy01 @aikungfotboll @stu_arm
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    James Vaughan PhD
    @JimiVaughan
    Jul 20, 2023
    Culture eats technique training for breakfast @DHrtin
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    Coach David Baird
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    Jul 19, 2023
    What a video ❤️🤩 street football with community support ❤️🤩
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    James Vaughan PhD
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    Apr 23, 2021
    Skilled intentionality in football: A beautiful example of @andresiniesta8 showing “skillful responsiveness to multiple nesting and nested affordances simultaneously” in El Clásico - Video part of the @BarcaInnoHub webinar last night, made possible by @CoachPaintCH
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