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7 Ways to become a Great Soccer Coach

August 17, 2012 by thomas karapatsos Leave a Comment

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

July 1, 2012 by thomas karapatsos Leave a Comment

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

August 27, 2011 by thomas karapatsos Leave a Comment

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

March 5, 2011 by thomas karapatsos Leave a Comment

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?

July 20, 2010 by thomas karapatsos Leave a Comment

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

June 17, 2010 by thomas karapatsos 2 Comments

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?

May 28, 2010 by thomas karapatsos Leave a Comment

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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