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Article Title: The Truth About Soccer Coaching Philosophy Article Description: 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. This philosophy can be applied to your youth team with relative ease as it is easier than you think. Additional Article Info: Word Count: 498 (not including resource box) Category: Soccer Written By: Andre Botelho Contact Email: [email protected] <----- Article Begins Here -----> The Truth About Soccer Coaching Philosophy © Copyright 2009 Expert Secret, Lda (SoccerDrillsTips.com) What follows is a simplistic way of bearing in mind the essential soccer coaching factors ate determine the team philosophy and moving along with it. Using this philosophy for your youth team can be very practical; and simpler than you may think. These are 6 elements; parents, coaches, excitement, selection, time, and success windows that are needed for a successful youth coaching philosophy. Regular communication with Parents: When it comes to soccer training, parental influence is the key influence in the mental and physical well being of your players, especially on the day of the match. A brochure of the "parental responsibilities" at the beginning of the season is not enough. Meetings with the parents should be set to discuss the concerns and reminding them the important points. New soccer coaches: An important part of the philosophy is that you should not only concentrate on development of the players, but also the coaches. The kids parents can also be considered for soccer coaching. They would be most suitable and a great option for the future. Selection: The greatest reason for players with great soccer skills to lose interest is non-selection. According to the research, players go in bad teams saying that they are fearful of not getting selected in a good team. Therefore, use a logical selection system which gives all players equal game time. Time: The session should be started on time and the parents should also be told to be on time. The start and finish times that are clearly defined make for an effective session. Excitement: Is it necessary that every soccer coaching session should be fun? You must definitely try to make each session a delight for the kids but then, its not possible all the time. Therefore, go for a positive attitude as an alternative. While training the kids, it is natural for every coach to run out of ideas on how to make practice drills exciting and enjoyable. Therefore, the biggest obstacle that coaches face is to be creative enough to bring about new drills every now and then. In soccer drills, it makes sense to keep escalating the difficulty aspect so that kids get skilled. 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. Do good and adopt 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
