Tag Archives: kids soccer advice
Coaching Kids Soccer: Are You Interested Or Do You Believe?
So you’ve decided to coach kids soccer, congratulations. Coaching kids soccer is not rocket science, so they tell us, but it can be the most frustrating experience leaving you with little to no hair.
Let me ask you; is your coaching regime textbook? Do you follow those training manuals or even copy some of the drills [...]
Soccer Success: Are You Thirsty?
Chelsea has just taken out the English Premiership and broken Manchester United strangle hold on the league. Excuse me while I breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate as a faithful Liverpool supporter. Wait for it, Liverpool is still the greatest team in English History, you beauty.
Sorry, needed to release that.
Since all the talk is [...]
Love Based Soccer, Back By Popular Neglect
Young players usually ask themselves (unconsciously) 3 basic questions when they listen to the coach/parent.
Who cares?
So What?
What’s in it for me?
The best way to combat this lack of interest in some players is to let them know your human.
That’s right, human!
Love-Based Soccer Is Changing The Odds
All soccer experts who say pain is the greatest motivator have forgotten the power of love.
People will scale mountains with luggage on their backs, swim upstream in a creek full of crocodiles, go into a hurricane and battle against armies and unbeatable odds to fulfil the emotion in us to love and be loved. [...]
Kids Soccer: Punished By Rewards
Some of the scientific discoveries made over the years have been so simple, yet so powerful. Having studied chemistry, physics and biology at University level (preens) one of the pioneers in science for me was Isaac Newton.
“An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest, unless acted [...]