We welcomed coaches from around the world to Liverpool last week for the LFC IA Coach Convention.

The convention focusses on coach education, with experts from across LFC hosting sessions and presenting to staff from our youth development programmes around the world. In total, 30 coaches from LFC International Academies were able to attend the event in-person and were treated to a packed schedule of content.

The event was opened on Wednesday by LFC First Team Assistant Manager, Pepijn Lijnders, who spoke at length about his career journey as a coach, working alongside Jürgen Klopp and the progress of LFC’s young players in to the first team.

Later in the day, coaches also had presentations from Head of Safeguarding John Pout and additional technical coaching content from LFC staff before ending the day with a tour of Anfield and an evening event with former players John Aldridge and Jason McAteer.

On Thursday, focus shifted to the AXA Training Centre where attendees were given a tour of the impressive facility before sitting down for a nutritional insight, sampling some of the foods the players eat to prepare for training and matches. LFC First Team Psychologist, Lee Richardson, presented to the group in the afternoon before the coaches observed some Academy training sessions in the evening.

It was back to Anfield on Friday for a presentation from LFC Womens Managing Director, Russ Fraser, before the group headed over to The Campus to observe the team preparing for their crucial league game against Durham on Sunday. LFCW Manager, Matt Beard, also took part in a Q&A session pitch side immediately following his team session.

With coaches then attending the LFC Legends game on Saturday before supporting LFC Women at Prenton Park on Sunday, it was a week that delivered an enormous amount of value and one which they won’t forget for a long time.