For those of you who dont know who Raymond Verheijen is:

Raymond Verheijen is a Dutch professional football coach who is currently the Assistant Manager to the Welsh national side.
Verheijen has been a member of the coaching staff of the national teams of the Netherlands, Russia and South Korea, attending three World Cups and three European Championships. He has also worked with a number of European club sides, including Barcelona of Spain, Zenit Saint Petersburg of Russia, and English teams Chelsea and Manchester City. He has also been a personal fitness coach to Craig Bellamy.

Verheijen was appointed to the position of Assistant Manager to the Welsh national side in February 2011, and in March 2011 made the news for his use of Twitter.

Primarily a fitness coach, Verheijen has publicly criticsed the training methods of a number of English teams, such as London-based clubs Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as former club Manchester City. Earlier in his career, Verheijen publicly criticised the coaching methods of Dutch team Feyenoord.

In 1998, Verheijen published his Complete Handbook of Conditioning for Soccer.


He is a football conditioning guru and will be at the AIS over the next 4 days with 40 Australian coaches for the FFA sanctioned Football Conditioning Diploma.

He will be using the current ACTAS squad for the purposes of demonstrations, I will be there watching not as a coach but as a parent. Will try and absorb as much as possible from the session this evening and post my observations.

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