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Article Title: Coaching High School Soccer: 5 Sure-fire Tips to Increase Confidence Article Description: If you are like me, you probably know that in coaching high school soccer, the journey to becoming a complete player begins by building confidence. As a coach, when you declare that your players are under pressure, you are really identifying in them a lack of confidence to deal with a situation. This is because it is only with confidence that we expect success. Additional Article Info: Word Count: 554 (not including resource box) Category: Soccer Written By: Andre Botelho Contact Email: [email protected] <----- Article Begins Here -----> Coaching High School Soccer: 5 Sure-fire Tips to Increase Confidence © Copyright 2009 Expert Secret, Lda (SoccerDrillsTips.com) Like any other sport, in coaching high school soccer too, confidence is the prerequisite that each players need to discover and instill in him or herself to get successful. Often when you say that the players have to play under pressure in a game, it indicates your players lack of confidence to handle any situation. This is simply because success is the outcome of being confident of achieving it. The players must promise themselves and accept confidence as an attribute to develop. Explain this point in coaching youth soccer by telling them the conduct to two parrots sitting on both shoulders. One is a positive parrot that pushes the player to accept and conquer every challenge coming his way by repeating You can do it. The other is the negative parrot, constantly warning the player You cant do this. Thats why it the player who has to make a choice between which parrot to follow. Once the players have made up their minds, teach them to become liable for their acts. The players may have to make this decision on a daily basis. Develop successful players in your team by helping them build strong inner confidence by focusing on their contribution to success or failure. When it comes to soccer coaching, let it be known that blaming somebody or something else is a symptom of insecurity. As a matter of fact, players should be trained on taking every setback as a lesson to become even more confident and not to feel discouraged. When coaching high school soccer, condition the players to see every lost opportunity as a lesson and they should keep telling themselves Ill get the next one. Thus, confidence for the next strike is remains unaffected because of the distress of the miss. In a team, caliber, mental strength and judgments regarding a players ability to survive the demands of competition, hold the key for its success. Judging mental readiness is often a bit tougher challenge than judging physical readiness in football coaching. To make such judgments easy, there is a need of searching clear messages. The spoken and unspoken messages of the player should be taken into account to ensure his or her ability to succeed in the game. Success gives rise to confidence. When you are completely satisfied with your work that you have done and when you are ready to face a pressure cooker scenario which is anytime possible, you achieve success in soccer. The common stimulus used for motivating the players is If you are not preparing to win, you are preparing to fail. Confidence grows up with experience. The reservations, mistakes, losses and denunciation should be taken up calmly by the players so that their underpinning of experience can be built. It is the feeling that he or she has the knowledge, has been there before, and knows what to look forward to. Dont take it for granted. Building of confidence is an everyday task in coaching high school soccer, so players ought to reflect on positive and main steps for their realization. There is lot more for you to discover and for that subscribe to our youth soccer coaching community that as tons of articles, videos, and newsletters that keep you updated with the latest and the best on soccer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [email protected] [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/
