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Founder, PlayerScout

Grantley Baugh is the founder of PlayerScout, a youth sport development platform helping players, parents and coaches better understand the areas that shape long-term development. His work focuses on player mindset, performance, development environments and helping more young people stay in sport.

Areas of expertise

  • Youth sport development
  • Player mindset and confidence
  • Player development environments
  • Sports marketing and communications
  • Youth sport participation and retention

Experience

Grantley has worked across professional and grassroots sport, including experience with Reading FC and Reading FC Women, and projects involving the Premier League, The FA and leading sports and consumer brands. He founded PlayerScout to give young players and the adults around them practical support beyond sport-specific coaching, covering mindset, physical development, nutrition and the wider development pathway.

Published articles

  • Fish Oil

    Fish Oil

    A very important sports supplement for football players is Fish Oil. Players can consume Fish Oils by taking supplements or eating fish. You may have heard of people supplementing with fish oils to improve joint, brain, heart and eye health. However, football players use this extremely popular supplement to help with inflammation after a tough…

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  • 9 Snacks for Footballers to Fuel Like a Pro (2019)

    This is the biggest list of healthy snacks for footballers on the planet. As you probably know, it’s really hard to find healthy snacks that actually taste good and are easy to prepare.  If this sounds familiar, I’ve got just the thing for you. This is a complete list of healthy snacks for footballers’ recipes.…

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  • The Effects of Alcohol on Football Performance

    The Effects of Alcohol on Football Performance

    Whether you play football for fun or at the highest level, you must understand the impact that alcohol consumption has on your performance. Everything you put in your body has a positive or negative effect on your training and development. A generic rule for any committed player is to steer clear of alcohol. But, we…

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