Jon Fearn is Head Physiotherapist at Reading Football Club.
Fearn qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1991 from , Paddington. His area of expertise is sports medicine, having worked in football, rugby union, American football and sports injury clinics. Fearn has a particular interest in spinal and pelvic problems in sport.
In 1997, he gained a Master's degree in Physiotherapy from University College London and spent four years working at West Ham United before moving to Reading as Head Physiotherapist in 2001.
Fearn also runs his own private physiotherapy clinic, onephysiotherapy, based at Madejski Stadium and Cannons Health & Fitness Club in GreenPark Business Park.
Fearn qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1991 from , Paddington. His area of expertise is sports medicine, having worked in football, rugby union, American football and sports injury clinics. Fearn has a particular interest in spinal and pelvic problems in sport.
In 1997, he gained a Master's degree in Physiotherapy from University College London and spent four years working at West Ham United before moving to Reading as Head Physiotherapist in 2001.
Fearn also runs his own private physiotherapy clinic, onephysiotherapy, based at Madejski Stadium and Cannons Health & Fitness Club in GreenPark Business Park.
Kunle Odetoyinbo MSc BSc CN Med. is a sports scientist and fitness coach working for Reading FC in the English Premier League.
Life and career
Early life
Odetoyinbo graduated at Loughborough University with a in sport science. During his time at Loughborough he went to the Olympic Games at Atlanta in 1996 to study different coaching techniques from a number of sports. He went on to work as a Senior lecturer in Human Physiology & Sports Science and as a consultant with various professional athletes. Odetoyinbo was also a semi professional footballer and a highly ranked table tennis player who played in the national league.
Sports Scientist
Odetoyinbo first came to popular attention as fitness coach at Tottenham Hotspur in 1994. After a brief spell in consultation with FIFA and the Jordanian Football Association he moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2004 who were at the time managed by former Tottenham manager Glenn Hoddle. He was said to be the "most significant signing Tottenham Hotspur made for several years."
In early August 2007 Odetoyinbo left Wolves to take up a position at Reading FC as head of sports science. In explaining his role at Reading he says that "we need to get the very best out of each individual and squeeze every last drop of performance from them - as much as the league have different tiers within it, they are all elite footballers and everybody wants to find that extra per cent somewhere. Every player in the Premier League is good at what they do. It's just that some are better than others. At that sort of level, you have to be ahead of the game in as many areas as you possibly can."
Specialisation
*Exercise Physiologist
*Sport Scientist
*Sport Physiologist
*Strength & Conditioning Coach
Life and career
Early life
Odetoyinbo graduated at Loughborough University with a in sport science. During his time at Loughborough he went to the Olympic Games at Atlanta in 1996 to study different coaching techniques from a number of sports. He went on to work as a Senior lecturer in Human Physiology & Sports Science and as a consultant with various professional athletes. Odetoyinbo was also a semi professional footballer and a highly ranked table tennis player who played in the national league.
Sports Scientist
Odetoyinbo first came to popular attention as fitness coach at Tottenham Hotspur in 1994. After a brief spell in consultation with FIFA and the Jordanian Football Association he moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2004 who were at the time managed by former Tottenham manager Glenn Hoddle. He was said to be the "most significant signing Tottenham Hotspur made for several years."
In early August 2007 Odetoyinbo left Wolves to take up a position at Reading FC as head of sports science. In explaining his role at Reading he says that "we need to get the very best out of each individual and squeeze every last drop of performance from them - as much as the league have different tiers within it, they are all elite footballers and everybody wants to find that extra per cent somewhere. Every player in the Premier League is good at what they do. It's just that some are better than others. At that sort of level, you have to be ahead of the game in as many areas as you possibly can."
Specialisation
*Exercise Physiologist
*Sport Scientist
*Sport Physiologist
*Strength & Conditioning Coach
Richard John Kerry (28 July 1915 - 29 July 2000) was an American airman, attorney, diplomat, and author. He was the father of Senator and 2004 Presidential candidate John Kerry.
Life and career
Kerry was born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised as a Roman Catholic, attended the Phillips Academy as a youth, and then graduated from Yale University in 1937. He received a degree from Harvard Law School in 1940, and then volunteered as a test pilot for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, flying DC-3's and B-29's stateside in Alabama. After a bout with tuberculosis, he was mustered out of the military.
Career
In his adult career, he was assistant district attorney for the southeastern district of Massachusetts. In 1949, Kerry moved to Washington, D.C., to work in the office of the General Counsel for the Navy Department. In 1951, Kerry joined the U.S. Department of State where he served in the Bureau of United Nations Affairs and the Office of Legal Advisor. He was a legal advisor to the U.S. High Commissioner of Germany, James B. Conant, as well as U.S. Attorney for Berlin.
In 1956, he joined the Foreign Service and was assigned as executive assistant to U.S. Senator Walter F. George, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He taught at the NATO Defense College in Paris in 1958 before being named Chief of the Political Section of the American Embassy in Oslo, Norway for four years.
Kerry was the author of Star Spangled Mirror, published in 1990. According to the book description at Amazon.com: the book "captures the dilemma of America's continuing reliance on an enduring fallacy of foreign policy-the assumption that other people ought to share our view of world order. Dr. Richard Kerry argues that from the time of Woodrow Wilson's aim to organize the world order in accordance with assumptions of democratic universalism, this vision of the world has remained central to U.S. foreign policy. "The Star-Spangled Mirror" will be considered an important addition to the history of American foreign policy and as required reading for current and future policy makers."
Family
Parentage
Kerry's father, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn), was born in the town of Horní Benešov, in what is now Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, and grew up in Mödling (a small town near Vienna, Austria). He immigrated to the U.S. arriving at Ellis Island with his wife Ida (née Loewe, who was born in Budapest, Hungary) and son Erich on May 18, 1905. In Illinois, Mildred was born (c. 1910) and in Massachusetts, Richard was born (c. 1916). Frederick committed suicide on November 23, 1921, by gunshot to the head at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Richard, his second son, was only six at the time.
The Kerry-Kohns were Jewish, but the family concealed its background upon immigrating to the United States, and raised the Kerry children as Catholics. Two of Ida's siblings, Otto Loewe and Jenni Loewe, died in the Nazi concentration camps (Theresienstadt and Treblinka, respectively), after being deported from Vienna in 1942.
Marriage
Kerry met his wife, Rosemary Forbes, in 1937 while taking a course in sculpture in the French coastal town of Saint-Briac. The couple married in Montgomery, Alabama in January 1941. In 1976, they crossed the Atlantic Ocean together from Marblehead, Massachusetts, to Ireland aboard a 35 foot sloop named Warbonnet.
Children
Richard Kerry was the father of 4 children:
* Margery A. "Peggy" Kerry (Kaler), b. 11 November 1941
::Peggy has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and was active in the peace movement during the Vietnam War, and introduced her brother to Vietnam Veterans Against the War. She now works for the State Department at the United States Mission to the United Nations as an NGO liaison.
* John Forbes Kerry, b. 11 December 1943
* Diana Kerry, b. 16 April 1947
::Diana is a drama teacher in Australia, and organized Americans Overseas for Kerry
* Cameron F. Kerry, b. 6 September 1950 (converted to Judaism)
::Cameron is a Boston lawyer.
Life and career
Kerry was born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised as a Roman Catholic, attended the Phillips Academy as a youth, and then graduated from Yale University in 1937. He received a degree from Harvard Law School in 1940, and then volunteered as a test pilot for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, flying DC-3's and B-29's stateside in Alabama. After a bout with tuberculosis, he was mustered out of the military.
Career
In his adult career, he was assistant district attorney for the southeastern district of Massachusetts. In 1949, Kerry moved to Washington, D.C., to work in the office of the General Counsel for the Navy Department. In 1951, Kerry joined the U.S. Department of State where he served in the Bureau of United Nations Affairs and the Office of Legal Advisor. He was a legal advisor to the U.S. High Commissioner of Germany, James B. Conant, as well as U.S. Attorney for Berlin.
In 1956, he joined the Foreign Service and was assigned as executive assistant to U.S. Senator Walter F. George, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He taught at the NATO Defense College in Paris in 1958 before being named Chief of the Political Section of the American Embassy in Oslo, Norway for four years.
Kerry was the author of Star Spangled Mirror, published in 1990. According to the book description at Amazon.com: the book "captures the dilemma of America's continuing reliance on an enduring fallacy of foreign policy-the assumption that other people ought to share our view of world order. Dr. Richard Kerry argues that from the time of Woodrow Wilson's aim to organize the world order in accordance with assumptions of democratic universalism, this vision of the world has remained central to U.S. foreign policy. "The Star-Spangled Mirror" will be considered an important addition to the history of American foreign policy and as required reading for current and future policy makers."
Family
Parentage
Kerry's father, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn), was born in the town of Horní Benešov, in what is now Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, and grew up in Mödling (a small town near Vienna, Austria). He immigrated to the U.S. arriving at Ellis Island with his wife Ida (née Loewe, who was born in Budapest, Hungary) and son Erich on May 18, 1905. In Illinois, Mildred was born (c. 1910) and in Massachusetts, Richard was born (c. 1916). Frederick committed suicide on November 23, 1921, by gunshot to the head at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Richard, his second son, was only six at the time.
The Kerry-Kohns were Jewish, but the family concealed its background upon immigrating to the United States, and raised the Kerry children as Catholics. Two of Ida's siblings, Otto Loewe and Jenni Loewe, died in the Nazi concentration camps (Theresienstadt and Treblinka, respectively), after being deported from Vienna in 1942.
Marriage
Kerry met his wife, Rosemary Forbes, in 1937 while taking a course in sculpture in the French coastal town of Saint-Briac. The couple married in Montgomery, Alabama in January 1941. In 1976, they crossed the Atlantic Ocean together from Marblehead, Massachusetts, to Ireland aboard a 35 foot sloop named Warbonnet.
Children
Richard Kerry was the father of 4 children:
* Margery A. "Peggy" Kerry (Kaler), b. 11 November 1941
::Peggy has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and was active in the peace movement during the Vietnam War, and introduced her brother to Vietnam Veterans Against the War. She now works for the State Department at the United States Mission to the United Nations as an NGO liaison.
* John Forbes Kerry, b. 11 December 1943
* Diana Kerry, b. 16 April 1947
::Diana is a drama teacher in Australia, and organized Americans Overseas for Kerry
* Cameron F. Kerry, b. 6 September 1950 (converted to Judaism)
::Cameron is a Boston lawyer.
players are different in their own way. All players have a particular 'style' in which they play in that is an asset to their team in some way. Some playing styles can only be used in some positions. eg: a target man can only be a forward because a player who plays with that style is not effective anywhere else. Here are the main styles.
Dribblers who use the art of dribbling to evade players in order to score a goal or open up space for a teammate. Dribblers are usually midfielders or forwards. Some well known dribblers are:
*Lionel Messi of Barcelona
*Robinho of Real Madrid
*Franck Ribery of Bayern Munich
Box to Box midfielders are players who have good stamina and can work all match long from 'Box to Box'. These players usually have good all-round ability in both attack and defence. Some well known Box to Box midfielders are:
*Frank Lampard of Chelsea
*Steven Gerrard of Liverpool
*Tim Cahill of Everton
A Goal Poacher is a forward that is well known for his scoring ability and movement inside the penalty box. He takes advantage of any space he is given or any mistake the defender makes. Some well known Goal poachers are:
*Hernán Crespo of Inter
*David Trézéguet of Juventus
Wing Backs are left or right sided defenders that push forward down the flanks to create an extra attacking option.
*Roberto Carlos of Fenerbahçe
*Ashley Cole of Chelsea
*Daniel Alves of Sevilla
A Target Man is a forward that is usually strong and able to hold up the ball. This allows him to shield the ball from a defender, and lay it off to a teammate in a better position for a shot, or shoot himself. Some well known Target Men are:
*Peter Crouch of Liverpool
*Mark Viduka of Newcastle United
A Playmaker is usually a midfielder who is the brains of the team. In some teams there is more than one. Playmakers are very creative as they must always think of a way to create a goal scoring opportunity, whether it be through passing to a teammate or shooting themself. Some well known playmakers are:
*Deco of Barcelona
*Andrea Pirlo of Milan
*Mikel Arteta of Everton
A Stopper is a defender that, as the name suggests, stops whoever they are marking. Stoppers need to possess strength, be hard in a tackle and mark their opponent tightly. Some well known stoppers are:
*John Terry of Chelsea
*Rio Ferdinand of Manchester United
A Sweeper is a central defender that acts as a safeguard to a defence. Sitting just behind the other central defender, the sweeper generally does not mark anyone and is there to stop any attacker who passes his marker. Sweepers should be comfortable on the ball and adept at all other defensive skills. Some well known sweepers are:
*Rafael Marquez of Barcelona
*Vincent Kompany of Hamburg
Counter Attackers are forwards that 'counter attack' when their team is on the back foot. Counter attackers can quickly turn a game through their pace, ball control and finishing. Some well known counter attackers are:
*Andriy Shevchenko of Chelsea
*Samuel Eto'o of Barcelona
Dribblers who use the art of dribbling to evade players in order to score a goal or open up space for a teammate. Dribblers are usually midfielders or forwards. Some well known dribblers are:
*Lionel Messi of Barcelona
*Robinho of Real Madrid
*Franck Ribery of Bayern Munich
Box to Box midfielders are players who have good stamina and can work all match long from 'Box to Box'. These players usually have good all-round ability in both attack and defence. Some well known Box to Box midfielders are:
*Frank Lampard of Chelsea
*Steven Gerrard of Liverpool
*Tim Cahill of Everton
A Goal Poacher is a forward that is well known for his scoring ability and movement inside the penalty box. He takes advantage of any space he is given or any mistake the defender makes. Some well known Goal poachers are:
*Hernán Crespo of Inter
*David Trézéguet of Juventus
Wing Backs are left or right sided defenders that push forward down the flanks to create an extra attacking option.
*Roberto Carlos of Fenerbahçe
*Ashley Cole of Chelsea
*Daniel Alves of Sevilla
A Target Man is a forward that is usually strong and able to hold up the ball. This allows him to shield the ball from a defender, and lay it off to a teammate in a better position for a shot, or shoot himself. Some well known Target Men are:
*Peter Crouch of Liverpool
*Mark Viduka of Newcastle United
A Playmaker is usually a midfielder who is the brains of the team. In some teams there is more than one. Playmakers are very creative as they must always think of a way to create a goal scoring opportunity, whether it be through passing to a teammate or shooting themself. Some well known playmakers are:
*Deco of Barcelona
*Andrea Pirlo of Milan
*Mikel Arteta of Everton
A Stopper is a defender that, as the name suggests, stops whoever they are marking. Stoppers need to possess strength, be hard in a tackle and mark their opponent tightly. Some well known stoppers are:
*John Terry of Chelsea
*Rio Ferdinand of Manchester United
A Sweeper is a central defender that acts as a safeguard to a defence. Sitting just behind the other central defender, the sweeper generally does not mark anyone and is there to stop any attacker who passes his marker. Sweepers should be comfortable on the ball and adept at all other defensive skills. Some well known sweepers are:
*Rafael Marquez of Barcelona
*Vincent Kompany of Hamburg
Counter Attackers are forwards that 'counter attack' when their team is on the back foot. Counter attackers can quickly turn a game through their pace, ball control and finishing. Some well known counter attackers are:
*Andriy Shevchenko of Chelsea
*Samuel Eto'o of Barcelona