Most coaches start managing a team without any formal training. They buy a couple of drill books to help them structure their sessions, but what coaches don't receive is any development on how to manage youth (13 - 16 age range) soccer players behaviour.

Quite often coaches ask me, "How to keep order in the team both on the competitive field and in training."

This is a specific issue for all of us volunteer junior and youth soccer coaches who aren't associated with a clubs academy system. What differentiates us is that our players are in the team because they want to be there and don't necessarily have the threat of losing their place in the academy which could effect their future career, hanging over them.

So we must manage our players in a different way. We must manage our players behaviour using certain techniques and help them learn certain life skills that will be of immense value to them.

If you manage your players behaviour you can expect:

• More productive practice sessions
• A highly motivated team
• Respect, and
• Great satisfaction

  So how do you manage your teams behaviour?

  Well, when ever you talk with good coaches they will tell you that there team has good discipline. Now when you hear the word discipline it can conjure up a multitude of negative images, but positive discipline has very different connotations.

  Firstly, it begins with good leadership and instruction. Instruction, not only on the training pitch in the form of techniques, skills, tactics and strategies but also in life skills.

  Instruction is then followed up by training, where you provide plenty of opportunities to practice.

  Practice enables opportunities to learn and make mistakes, which is were you can them help your players by correcting their mistakes. However, sometimes coaches assume that their players are better than they are. They expect players to understand their own feelings and emotions and know how to handle them. In my experience, having a squad of highly motivated, competitive players who have raging hormones corsing throught their veins coupled with very short fuses, needs some careful management.

  But, what's the difference between a mistake and misbehaviour? Some coaches don't understand there is a difference and will immediately correct the behaviour, but this doesn't help the player in the long term. In the mistake scenario, players may not be fully able to execute or perform the skill which will provoke a certain response. In the case of misbehaviour, a player does have the ability but willfully misbehaves. Both of these situations need completely difference management.

  This week in Junior Soccer Coach we are going to be publishing a series of articles on "How To Manage & Develop Your Youth Soccer Players." In this series we are going to provide practical steps that every coach can implement with their team, from creating the right team culture through to praise and recognition.

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  For this week, that's it. Good luck in this weekend's games...

  Neil T

  www.JuniorSoccerCoach.com

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