"A lot of the stuff came from NFL in America when I played at Tampa Bay Rowdies, I went up looking at the NFL lads who were training pre-season, seeing the staff and everything. It had a massive effect on me. By the time I got to manage it was about experimenting and I did that at all the clubs in the lower divisions to get where I got. I used to test out something that was different."
"At the time I was under Sam [at Everton between 2017 and 2018] I was older and I knew I wanted to go into coaching. So I was more observing [Allardyce] as well and obviously as a manager you're looking at everything. But I was more observing and taking in what he was doing and how he was working."
Sam Allardyce adopted methods from American football during a playing spell with the Tampa Bay Rowdies, studying NFL preseason training and staff practices. He experimented with innovations across lower-division clubs before implementing them during his successful Bolton tenure from 1999 to 2007. He introduced sports science, data analysis, tailored nutrition plans and recovery protocols earlier than many peers in English football. Those changes shaped staff roles and training approaches and left a lasting impression on players and coaches. Wayne Rooney observed Allardyce closely at Everton in 2017–18 and credited his methods as influential when moving into coaching.
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