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Coaching Tip #1: Bring A Positive Coaching
Attitude to Practices.
Many parents and coaches come from
stressful work situations directly to practice.
It is only human for some of that stress to
creep into attitudes on the field. Here's a
great way to combat this.
Look in the mirror of your car and say...
"Today is a great day for soccer - we're going
to have fun today!"
Say it three times - OUT LOUD!
I know it sounds goofy but it is guaranteed
to put a smile on your face, and once you start
smiling you will have stress beat. Then go on
out there and have some fun! Praise a lot, smile
a lot encourage everyone to be supportive.
"Paraphrased from Charlie Cooke at
www.playgreatsoccer.com"
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Coaching Tip
#2: Expectations
This is what I have posted
in my car and read before each practice to set
my head straight prior to starting:
"I have high expectations of you. I
expect you to succeed."
The bottom line is this - threats,
sarcasm, being cynical, and shouting may cause
the goose to lay one more golden egg, but it
might be the last.
Provided by Marty Clark – Huntsville Soccer Club
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Coaching Tip
#3: Life outside soccer
Never forget that soccer
may be the only thing going right in a player’s
life that day – don’t mess that up. Soccer can
be a refuge for players whose home life is a
mess, whose boyfriend just broke up with them,
who made a failing grade on a test that day,
etc.
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Coaching Tip
#4: Soccer is not a matter of life or death.
"If you're going to make
every game a matter of life or death, you're
going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be
dead a lot." NC Basketball Coach Dean Smith.
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Top 10 Worst Mistakes Trainers Make
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Failing to prepare everything
needed (facility and equip) ahead of time.
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Starting late, OR WORSE …
running overtime.
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Talking too much.
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Forgetting breaks.
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Not laughing at yourself when
the unexpected happens.
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Giving unclear directions.
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Not smiling.
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Not involving the players.
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Not reading the team
chemistry (changes all the time!), and
therefore, not knowing when to change
strategies or pace.
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The all-time worst mistake -
not being real. Passion is everything.
Provided by
Mac Matthews - Auburn HS (Alabama) Girls Soccer
Coach who adapted it from a list at the website:
http://www.funteambuilding.com/top10.html
Mac made only minor changes to his list so it
reads more specifically for coaches.
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Cheering For Someone Else's Kid
When I'm
wearing my parent hat on the sideline, there's
no sweeter music to my ears than hearing some
other parent cheering for/complimenting my own
son. This made me think of an idea to try with
the team I coach....
Before the match, have each parent draw a
player's name out of a hat. For that match, each
parent is to focus on especially cheering for
whichever player whose name they drew (of
course, they should cheer for all the players
also). I just thought this might be a good team
building exercise for the parents and would
generate more of the proper type of noise from
the sideline.
I also think that, as a player, it means a bit
more when someone else's parent is
wholeheartedly cheering for you. Mom and dad
will cheer for you even when you are struggling,
but when someone ELSE cheers for you, it just
pushes different buttons.
This was
posted on the
And-Again Coaching Forum by the poster "AttackingMid"
on 3/25/04
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