Soccer Coaching: Discover The Philosophy

Let me show you a neat way to remember a few vital soccer coaching factors that are instrumental in ascertaining your team’s philosophy and fulfilling it. We can apply this philosophy to our youth team very easily as it is easier than we can imagine.

The 6 essential factors which are required for an effective youth coaching philosophy are; parents, coaches, excitement, selection, time, and success windows.

Communicating with Parents regularly: Parental influence is the key factor for soccer training which is essential in the mental and physical growth of your players, particularly on the day of the match. The pamphlet of "parental responsibilities" provided at the beginning of the term is not adequate. Regular meetings should be arranged with the parents to highlight the key points again and discuss issues.

Developing soccer coaches: Training of soccer coaches should be an integral part of your philosophy instead of targeting the players. Try and see if you can make one of your kid’s parents to become a soccer coach? They would be the best candidates, not required in the beginning, but might be an option for the future.

Selection: The greatest reason for players with great soccer skills to lose interest is non-selection. Studies reveal, that the players think that they would not get selected for a good team so they opt for a bad team. Thus a logical system which provides the players equal game time should be used.

Time: The session should be started on time and the parents should also be told to be on time. When you define the start times and finish times clearly, it helps you deliver the session effectively.

Excitement: Is it imperative that every soccer coaching session has to be enjoyable? Yes, try to make every session enjoyable for the kids but also understand that it may not be possible every time. As such, adopt excitement as an alte
ate.

At the time of training the kids, it is valid that coaches face problems with ideas on how to make training interesting. Hence, the biggest challenge is to be so good with your thinking that you can come up with several great ideas to make drills fun for kids.

In soccer drills, keep increasing the level of difficulty for the player's to grow. A method of doing this is to start a game, introduce a problem, and then find a solution of it in a drill.

Success windows: Make success windows a part of a season for every training session. This necessitates for 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.

As an example, time frame of minimum four and maximum eight weeks. This can be achieved for both the team and individual members.

Do yourself a favor and have a soccer coaching philosophy like this become a part of the development phase of your kid's training once the basics have been covered. For more information, join our youth coaching community which has a collection of relevant material and resources on youth soccer.