Soccer Coaching:5 Ways To Preach Soccer Philosophy
August 30th, 2010 Posted in Boating
Here’s a really simple way to remember some of the key Soccer coaching factors that are required in determining your team philosophy and run with it. We can apply this philosophy to our youth team very easily as it is easier than we can imagine.
There are 6 factors; parents, coaches, excitement, selection, time and success windows which are required for an effective youth coaching philosophy.
Communicating with Parents regularly: Parental influence is the key factor for soccer training which is essential in the mental and physical growth of your players, particularly on the day of the match. It’s not enough just to provide the parents with the brochure, “parental responsibilities” at the beginning of the term. Arrange for regular meetings with them so that the key points can be repeated and concerns shared.
Upcoming soccer coaches: Your philosophy should emphasize the importance of development of the coaches along with the players. Assess and see if you can turn one of your kid’s parents into a soccer coach? They would be the best candidates, not required in the beginning, but might be an option for the future.
Selection: Players with great soccer skills drop out mainly due to non-selection. According to studies, players say they would rather get selected for a bad team than not getting selected for a good team. Thus a logical system which provides the players equal game time should be used.
Time: Be particular in starting the session on time and also the timely arrival of the parents. Clearly established start times and finish times allow you to plan and deliver the session effectively.
Excitement: Is it necessary that every soccer coaching session should be fun? Yes, try to make every session enjoyable for the kids but also understand that it may not be possible every time. So adopt “excitement” as a substitute for this.
When training the kids, it is certain that the coach will have problems with ideas on how to make practice drills interesting. Hence, the biggest challenge is to be so good with your thinking that you can come up with several great ideas to make drills fun for kids.
In soccer drills, it is a good idea to keep increasing the level of difficulty every time. One way of doing this is to start with a game, identify a problem and then eliminate it by performing a related soccer drill.
Success windows: Make success windows a part of a season for every training session. This needs you to determine a lower limit and an upper limit of time with a view to measure the level of success that needs to be achieved.
For example; time frame of minimum four and maximum eight weeks. This can be achieved for both the team members and the individual members.
Favor yourself and have a soccer coaching philosophy like this become a part of the development phase of your kid’s training once the basics have been covered. If you would like more such knowledge and resources, subscribe to our youth soccer coaching community.
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