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Article Title: 5 Soccer Coaching Tips That Work Article Description: Are you looking for effective and time-tested soccer coaching tips to take your team to the next level? Does it bother you that your team is not taking the drills seriously, or that your plans are not working? Additional Article Info: Word Count: 580 (not including resource box) Category: Soccer Written By: Andre Botelho Contact Email: [email protected] <----- Article Begins Here -----> 5 Soccer Coaching Tips That Work © Copyright 2009 Expert Secret, Lda (SoccerDrillsTips.com) You will be amazed to see how big these soccer coaching tips can prove to be for your team. Does it bother you that your team is not taking the drills seriously, or that your plans are not working? Here are 5 unbeatable tips that can never go wrong and are guaranteed to enhance your team's performance. 1. Design your procedures meticulously: Ensure that your plans are in tandem with your objectives or they will fail miserably. Before you set out to draft one, sit and have discussions with your players, set your goals and objectives as well as timelines. Only that success is sweet that comes within a time-frame you expected it to. As the days pass by, its importance begins to diminish. There should always be scope for improvements, big or small. You never know what will happen on the field on account of unexpected events. So to ensure continuous success, ensure spontaneity and consistency in your plans. 2. Ensure that the players have great workouts: When the drills are the same day after day, the kids are bound to shy away from practice and you cannot blame them. There are several interesting methods to sustain the interest of the kids. After the training, you can take them out on an excursion, initiate a group discussion (not necessarily on soccer), and encourage them to intermingle with each other and so on. This will help them unwind and feel good about these sessions. 3. Be strict as well as friendly: You can be successful as a coach only when you keep the players within the boundary of rules. Don't underestimate the power of these soccer coaching tips. Ensure that the players have sufficient time to interact with each other and exchange meaningful dialog. This also gives them opportunity to explore themselves. Introduce weekly outings and picnics. 4. Be supportive and tolerant: Encourage your team to try new things and when you do so, also be tolerant of the mistakes that they make in the process. Keep the group under your watchful eye and lend a helping hand when things do not work out the way as expected. However, note that it may prove counter-productive to scold the players for errors. Your success as a coach is measured by how well the kids are able to execute new ideas or recover from failures. That is the yardstick of your performance. 5. Help your players reach their potential: You will know the true potential of your players only from their performances on the track. It is natural that in a team, there are some great players, some average, while others simply poor. The mark of a great coach is that he can turn the poor players into performers using the finest players in the team. The primary objective of any coach must be to keep the flock together so that there is perfect harmony and unison between all the players irrespective of their abilities. Never make irrational judgments that seem partial and one-sided. Youth soccer coaching is a dynamic and difficult job. After all, it is not easy to motivate people to deliver under extreme pressure. Make use of these soccer coaching tips to ensure that your players not only become great players but great sportsmen. The next step? To take what you've just learned, implement it, and join our youth soccer coaching community so you can learn more and dramatically improve your coaching skills. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Andre Botelho is a recognized authority in youth soccer coaching. Learn how to explode your players' skills and make training more fun in record time. Download your free youth soccer coaching guide at http://www.soccerdrillstips.com <----- Article Ends Here -----> ------------------------------------ This group is no longer maintained. It only exists for the archives. Please submit your articles at http://www.pickbrains.com/submit-article instead. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_Content/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_Need_Content/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
