• Brian Landry is launching a focused, six-week podcast series examining how technology and analytics are changing player development in American soccer.

A short series with a narrow focus

Missouri, USA, Sep 16, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Brian Landry, a Missouri-based journalist, reporter, and podcast host, is starting a limited-run series inside his regular podcast schedule. Over six weeks, the series will look at one topic only: how technology and analytics are reshaping how young players are trained and evaluated in the United States.

Landry has covered soccer development pathways for years. This series narrows that broad interest into something more specific and time-bound.

“I didn’t want another open-ended conversation about technology in sports,” Landry said. “I wanted six weeks where we actually sit inside the tools and the decisions coaches are making with them.”

Why six weeks, and why now

Landry picked a fixed run instead of an ongoing beat for a practical reason. He wants each episode to build on the last one, rather than standing alone as a general interest segment.

“A single episode on analytics can feel like a demo,” he said. “Six episodes in a row lets you actually follow an idea from a training session to a game decision.”

The series will not try to cover every level of the sport. Landry plans to keep it focused on youth and collegiate development, areas he has reported on before and where he says the use of data is changing fastest.

What the series will cover

Landry outlined four areas the six episodes will move through:

• How coaches use tracking data during practice, not just after games

• What analytics can and cannot tell a coach about a young player’s potential

• How smaller programs without big budgets are adapting the same ideas at lower cost

• What players themselves think about being measured this closely

“That last one matters to me the most,” Landry said. “A lot of coverage of analytics never asks the player how it feels to be on the other end of the data.”

The format stays the same, the scope doesn’t

Landry isn’t changing how he records or produces his podcast for this series. The interviews will run the same length as his regular episodes, with the same mix of coaches, program leaders, and players he usually brings on.

What changes is the discipline around topic selection. For six weeks, guests are chosen specifically because they can speak to the data and technology angle, not because they have a broader story to tell.

“I turned down a few good guests for this run because their story didn’t fit the six weeks,” Landry said. “That was a hard call, but the series only works if it stays narrow.”

Where the idea came from

Landry said the series grew out of repeated conversations he’d had with coaches who kept describing the same tools differently, sometimes in ways that confused what the technology was actually doing.

“I noticed I was getting three different explanations of the same tracking software from three different coaches,” he said. “That told me there was a real story in just explaining what these tools do, plainly, before getting into whether they’re good or bad for the sport.”

He said the series won’t argue for or against the growing use of analytics in youth soccer. Instead, it will try to describe the current state of things clearly enough that listeners can form their own opinion.

“I’m not trying to convince anyone that data is good or bad for development,” Landry said. “I want people to understand what’s actually happening on these fields before they decide what they think about it.”

What happens after six weeks

Landry said he has no plans yet for a second series, and wants to see how the first one lands before committing to more. He said the format could return to cover other narrow topics in the future, such as coaching leadership or the business side of youth clubs, if the six-week structure works.

“If this works the way I hope, it’s a format I’ll use again,” he said. “But I’d rather do one thing well than promise a season two before I’ve finished a season one.”

To read more, visit the website here.

About Brian Landry

Brian Landry is a journalist, reporter, and podcast host based in St. Charles, Missouri. His work covers professional leagues, youth development, collegiate athletics, and the business and culture of soccer in the United States. Through his podcast and reporting, Landry focuses on the people and organizations shaping the sport at every level.

• Arthur Deibler is formalizing a standard for how his Pennsylvania businesses operate: local access and volunteer time come before expansion or outside opportunity.

The policy

Pennsylvania, USA, Sep 16, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Arthur Deibler, founder and CEO based in Hegins, Pennsylvania, has run several ventures across food, hospitality, and fitness, including Prima Pizzeria and Lucky Horse Tavern in Valley View, and Bullpen Fitness Recreation. He is now naming a standing rule he says has guided those businesses from the start: every one of them has to work for the town it sits in before it works for anything else.

“If a decision helps the business but hurts the town, I don’t make it,” Deibler said. “That’s the whole policy. It sounds simple because it is.”

The commitment covers three areas: pricing and hours that fit local schedules, space for community groups inside his properties, and continued volunteer hours at Hebron United Methodist Church in Millersburg.

Why he’s naming it now

Deibler said he has operated this way for years without writing it down. Naming it now is about consistency as the businesses grow.

“When you’re small, everybody knows how you think,” he said. “Once you add locations or staff, people need something to point to. This is that.”

He pointed to Bullpen Fitness Recreation as the clearest example. The facility was built to be more than a gym, with space meant for teams, families, and casual users, not just members chasing a workout. That design choice, he said, only holds if it stays a policy and not a mood.

What changes in practice

Deibler outlined three commitments tied to the policy:

Local scheduling stays fixed. Hours at Prima Pizzeria and Lucky Horse Tavern will continue to work around school and shift schedules in Valley View, rather than shifting to whatever is most efficient for the business.

Community groups get facility access. Bullpen Fitness Recreation will keep space open to local teams and groups, not just paying individual members.

Volunteer hours continue. Deibler will keep volunteering at Hebron United Methodist Church in Millersburg, treating it as part of how the businesses operate, not separate from them.

None of this is new activity. Deibler said the point of announcing it is to make it a standard his businesses are held to, not a habit that can quietly slip.

How he decides when it’s hard

Deibler said the hardest tests come when a local commitment costs money or convenience.

“There are weeks a promotion would do better if I ran it my way instead of around the town’s schedule,” he said. “I still run it around the town.”

He credits his father as the biggest influence on how he thinks about that kind of tradeoff. Growing up in Hegins and playing football in high school, Deibler said he learned early that a team, or a town, only works if people show up for it even when it costs them something.

“Working hard is still how I define success,” he said. “But it only counts if it’s work that actually helps somebody besides me.”

What he’s watching next

Deibler said he’ll know the policy is working if local families keep using the businesses the way they always have, not if the businesses grow the fastest they can.

“I’m not trying to be the biggest thing in the valley,” he said. “I’m trying to still be useful here in ten years.”

He said he plans to keep the same approach as he considers any future ventures: local access first, expansion second.

To read more, visit the website here.

About Arthur Deibler

Arthur Deibler is a founder and CEO based in Hegins, Pennsylvania. He owns Prima Pizzeria and Lucky Horse Tavern in Valley View, Pennsylvania, and Bullpen Fitness Recreation. A graduate of Lebanon Valley College’s class of 2013, Deibler volunteers at Hebron United Methodist Church in Millersburg, Pennsylvania.