Coach by Example If you want your players to adopt a system, philosophy, technique or even a certain type of behaviour you must also live them daily. Your players will pick them up from you unconsciously by modeling you. Tell Stories and reason Continue Reading
Kids Soccer: The Praise to Criticism Ratio
Kids Soccer has changed over the years. Not only have the zombie parents infected the game with their virus, but also the coaches and I use the term loosely for some, need to have a reality check. Coaches who over-correct, stop play, pick apart Continue Reading
10 Soccer Tips to Develop Team Work
Before the gang at home gets together to participate in any form of activity we huddle around closely and put our hands in the middle and yell, “Team Punishment”. The gang consists of me, a young child at the tender age of 37, a 7 year old, 5 year Continue Reading
20 Coaching Tips to Succeed with Young Soccer Players
Parents should look out for the following and more importantly coaches must, 1-Encourage players to have strong minded attitudes which involve a “never say die” attitude and the infamous teeth clench. 2-Structure the players training programmes Continue Reading
Soccer Coaches, What Are You Selling?
Perfect does not exist. Being perfect is not sustainable and who is perfect anyway? In the last post we discussed “fail and fail often.” The message was to learn from what’s working. In a nutshell, modify and adjust sessions according to what’s Continue Reading
Hypnosis, Questions and Love Based Soccer
Imagine you could hypnotise your players and make them obey your every command. Wouldn’t coaching be easy? Well stare into the page and listen. As you start reading this post you find yourself relaxed and peaceful. As you sit there on your Continue Reading
Are You Playing Love Based Soccer?
While watching a video on YouTube I couldn’t help admire a young kid playing his electric guitar. He has definitely plucked those strings more than once. What followed after the video was a little advertisement selling, you guessed it, how to play Continue Reading
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