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Understanding why children play soccer is important so that you can the most out of your sessions and games.
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Why Do Kids Play Soccer and Your Role As Coach / Manager?
Neil Travers
Football is the worlds most popular game. The feelings can be intense support
for your team as can be the lows, and at the end of the day there will always be
next season.
Children are very creative and are not constrained by the preconvcieved ideas
that adults carry with them.
Football is a simple game, its about goals. From a childs eyes the team is
either on the attack trying to score goals or defending, trying to prevent
goals.
There are many reasons why children participate in football, here are just
some:
- Its fun
- Its exciting
- I'm good at it
- I want to be with my mates
- My parents want my to play or
- I want to get away from my brother(s) & sister(s)
However
playing football also brings with it a host of benefits for children that
include:
- Working as part of a team
- Development of social skills and sense of belonging
- Learning how to co-operate and compete
- Learning to express their emotion and imagination through new experiences
- Taking responsibility for their actions
- Dealing with success and failure
The role of junior soccer coach
has very important part to play in the development of kids and their soccer
skills. You should guide young children as they grow from childhood into
adulthood. As a result the coach has a number of hats to wear through this
period. Mostly as being an instructor to transfer soccer skills to eager
children, but there are other roles such as:
- Teacher
- Leader
- First Aider
- Agony Aunt
A large proportion of junior coaches are parents, whose
children just want to play football. They become a member of a local club and
before the parent knows it they have become involved in the training sessions.
The experience that parents have differs greatly from being able to play or
having played competitively to those who have no more experience than once
playing for their school. It shouldn't really matter what experience or
credentials a junior soccer coach has other than a few basic qualities (although
a good knowledge of the game is an advantage!). There are certain
characteristics that enable a coach to become well accepted by the children and
the parents, the following list identifies some:
- Pleasant appearance, smart dress and good physique
- Healthy lifestyle
- Good organizational skills, promptness, training sessions, good knowledge of
techniques
- Good communication skills. Especially relevant with younger children
- Patience and tolerance, always has time for children and parents
- Highly motivated, wanting to run fun enjoyable sessions that transfer good
learning to the children
- Despite being a voluntary activity it can be a stressful role so a good
sense of humour is essential
- Good social skills, self control and calmness are essential especially when
conflict arises
- Drive for constant improvement, not only in the development of the team but
to develop ones self in new coach exercises, methods and formats
- Being able to watch, listen, evaluate and make decisions to correct or adapt
then the ability to review and admit own faults
- Open and honest, demonstrates flexibility to change and suggestions from
players and assistants
- Fairness with the players and parents, and actively demonstrates a genuine
interest in the development of all in the team
If you can work on
these skills to be an effective coach you will be remembered for years.....let me
leave you with two questions for you to ponder....
- Who was the worst and the best teacher / coach you had as a child? and
- Why did your arrive at your answers?
Let's try to inspire the
youth of today, and promote safety, player development, fair play and
sportsmanship!
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