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SOCCER TIP FOR KIDS!!
When you woke up this morning did you know what you were going to do today? Of course you did because you were thinking ahead! If you can think ahead on the soccer pitch it will help you massively!! Keep thinking 'What shall I do when I get the ball?' Who is free? Who is in space? If you know what you are going to do BEFORE you get the ball you will never get caught!! Check out more tips from my book adifferentkindofsoccer at www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com
Why do you coach soccer?
In exactly the same way I’ve asked the players - I'm asking all coaches out there the same question. Why do you coach soccer? It’s incredibly important for you to understand why you stand out on the field each day. Think about why you started doing it and, if you've moved away from that for whatever reason, get back to it! It's why you started! www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com
Coaches seeing soccer games as a threat!
‘Coaches have reached a point where they come to see each game as a threat’
This is a very interesting quote that really makes you think what is it all about?!!
Coaches viewing games as a threat!!
I totally understand it as I’ve seen it with my own eyes and pro soccer can be a really tough and cruel sport - everything is done under the spotlight - making it very difficult when things aren’t going well.
But just think about it - viewing the games as something to dread and fear when that is the very reason, the only reason you are there!!!
DON’T let that happen to you - remember WHY you love to play or coach soccer and ultimately - and you have to trust me on this - it is only a game, even after all the power it has to influence people - it is still just a game!
On my site
www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com
find out more about how you can remember why you play and learn how to understand yourself and the game better so you can get maximum enjoyment!
The BEST advice
When I was young one of my coaches said to me ‘When you get the ball give it to somebody in the same colour shirt’ - now - after playing soccer and travelling around the world - that seems to me like just about the best advice I ever had and could ever give to a young soccer player who wants to improve their game!!
So simple isn’t it? Go and do it!!
www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com
The BEST advice
When I was young one of my coaches said to me 'When you get the ball give it to somebody in the same colour shirt' - now, after playing soccer and travelling around the world that seems to me like just about the best advice I ever had and could ever give to a young soccer player who wants to improve their game!! So simple isn't it? Go and do it!! www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com
It's totally automatic!
Every day the man collects the garbage off the streets - picks up the garbage and puts it in his bag - bend, grab, open, in, bend grab, open, in, bend grab, open in. He does it automatically, smoothly and without thinking. Learn about the four stages of learning in my book 'adifferentkindofsoccer' which you can pick up at www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com and learn how YOU can bring the same kind of smooth, effortless and automatic technique to your soccer game!
Paths don't care!
This morning I tripped over a step on the path and looked down at the path in anger and do you know what the path did? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! It just stayed exactly where it was while I jumped up and down cursing about my trip! The path will not take the blame for my trip will it? It will just sit there and carry on being a path - so I can stand there all day blaming something that does not and cannot care or I can take responsibly for my actions, look more carefully where I am going and be in control of my own destiny. Read more about how YOU can take responsibly in your soccer team and in your life in my book which you can pick up at www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com
The ball is round
The ball bounces sometimes this way, sometimes that way, it rolls, it spins, fast, slow, you just never know what will happen next! That’s why soccer is a great game - we NEVER know what’s going to happen next. How can YOU get an edge on your opponent and anticipate what will happen next? Take a look on; http://www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com/ to see how you can start thinking quicker and getting ahead in the game!
Enjoy the journey
Sitting on a train I looked around and realised that every single person on the train is going to the same place - think about that.
Some may get off here, some may get off there but, in the end, we will all go to the same place - wherever that place is and what’s it like - we are ALL going there.
So, if we know this don’t you think while we are on this journey we should just enjoy it?
Soccer is a game that brings out the pure joy in people playing and watching it!
Let’s remember this when we are playing and watching the game - on this journey lets enjoy the things that make us happy, after all we are all going to the same place aren’t we?
at: www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com 
You can learn how YOU can get maximum enjoyment of the game by understanding the game and yourself better!
That’s got to be worth a look hasn’t it?!
The other day I was playing soccer with my son, just passing the ball to each other, right foot, left foot, right for, left foot, after about ten minutes we noticed that his left foot passing was really improving!!
Amazing! After only 10 minutes he was getting better and better!
I said to him…
The wall made my boys the players they are today!
That’s great to hear!
The Magic of the Ball
What has magical powers and can make 30,000 cheer, scream and shout all without saying a word? How can you make 30,000 people look at you as if by magic? I was at an English Premier League game yesterday and the ball boy went to collect the ball. At that moment 30,000 people were looking directly at him! Because he had in his hands the thing that we all look at when we go to a game - the BALL! Without the ball there is no game is there? So doesn't it make sense for you as a player to make sure that you can control this ball as best you can? Doesn't it make sense for you as a coach to make sure all of your players can control this ball as they can? The ball is the thing that makes you go to training and turn up for a match so make sure that YOU can master this magical thing! Ask a player to run 20 yards and he will complain , ask him to run 20 yards to get the ball and he will do it until he drops! Read more about this on my site - www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com and in my book 'adifferentkindofsoccer' in the chapter 'The Magic of the Ball'
Walls never get tired!
The other day I was playing soccer with my son, just passing the ball to each other, right foot, left foot, right for, left foot, after about ten minutes we noticed that his left foot passing was really improving!! Amazing! After only 10 minutes he was getting better and better! I said to him that even if I'm not there then he can still do the same practice. 'How?' he said. 'Well, you see that wall there son, that will never move, never get tired and will always pass the ball the ball to you, it's the perfect training partner!! You can learn all of the movements of the ball, the spins, the speed, just by kicking the ball against the wall, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot, it's really that simple!' I talk a lot about this on my site and in my book at www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com So the next time your dad gets tired, give him a rest and find your nearest wall, it will teach you a lot!
The children are the Teachers
It amazes me each time I watch a junior soccer game how much I learn from watching them. The concentration, the effort, the skill and energy with which they play the game is heart warming. Youth soccer coaches have to realise the delicate precious diamonds they are working with and the key word is ‘with’. Too often I see coaches seemingly working ‘against’ their own players when trying to achieve the same goals. This sounds crazy but its true! You see it in many walks of life - the Boss wants the job done so he thinks the best way is to scare, frighten, threaten, embarrass the employer into doing the job! Let me tell you it usually does NOT work! The Boss may get that particular job finished but along the line he ‘loses ’ the employee in the longer term. Coaches and Bosses need to always look at the long term and remember why they are there. They are there to get the BEST they possibly can out of the people ‘under’ them. In any walk of life the Boss and his employees, the Coach and his players are looking to achieve the same result, so they have to work together! In my book which you can buy at www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com you can learn more - both coaches and players - about how to understand each other, that’s got to be a good thing hasn’t it? After all you are all working towards the same thing aren’t you? Soccer coaches have to look at the faces of your young players and see the innocence with which they play the game and look to YOU for support and guidance. If you can give them real support and guidance especially when things are tough you will make not only a better soccer player but also a friend for life! These kids will treasure and cherish the memory of a coach who stood by them in difficult times on the soccer pitch but also a difficult time in there lives, a turbulent, troublesome time when they were really trying to find themselves. In this time they remember that ‘Coach’ was there to help them through and they will be forever grateful. Isn’t that a better reward than just 3 points?
Everybody is important
Just watched a group of road workers pile into McDonalds to catch their breakfast before the very strict 10.30am deadline. Have you ever thought how important these guys are? If they don't turn up and do their job the country would stop! You don't notice them until they for do the jobs and are not there. I bet if you think about your team there is a player who everybody takes for granted but you would miss if they weren't there. EVERY member of the team is important, just like the guys fixing the roads - without them we wouldn't in trouble. Read more about the 'Connections' in your soccer team in my book which you can pick up at www.adifferentkindofsoccer.com
Practice and persistence!
I was getting on a train today and I got talking to the man who gets on the train to clean it in between trips,
'how come you can do it so quick I asked?'
Well I've been doing it for years so it's become automatic now, I know where everything is and what to do, I don't even think about it anymore.'
It got me thinking that it's a bit like a soccer player - after years of practice and persistence his control becomes automatic so he is free to concentrate on other things. This only happened through years of training and practice.
Just like the man who cleans up on the trains the key to making things automatic is very simple - practice and persistence!Â
Read more about this in my book 'adifferentkindofsoccer' which you can buy at adifferentkindofsoccer.comÂ
It's important to communicate with your coach!
Do you feel like you and your coach finding it hard to communicate? It's so frustrating when you think you are doing all you can but your coach is not responding to your efforts isn't it?! After all, you are both trying to achieve the same thing - win games and enjoy the game aren't you? How can you reach him? How can you get through to him what you are feeling? You have to remember that your coach is a human being with feelings and problems just like you, I know that's hard to believe me, trust me! :)) He has to try and please a group of 20-25 people and this is a tough job, can YOU imagine trying to squeeze 25 very selfish cats through a small hole in a fence. That's a funny image isn't it?! This is a little bit like a coaches job! Very, very difficult. Every one of those cats, I mean players, think THEY are the most important one and that their problems are the most important. Let's be honest you are only interested in how to make things better for you aren't you? It's ok, you can admit it to me, I won't tell anyone. The coach, however, has to try to make sure that everyone of their players are working to their maximum in every training session and every game while at the end of every week disappointing a lot of them by leaving out for the game, it's not easy is it? It's a very, very tough job. Anyway back to you, you are the only one we are bothered about it isn't ? :) So, how do you make sure you can communicate better with coach? Well, remembering that he is human, has his own problems (and is trying to squeeze the cats through the gate, remember?) then you will need to pick the right time to speak to him. It would make no sense to speak to him when you can see he is in a bad mood or just lost a game would it? Timing - soccer, like life is about timing, you have to pick the right time to approach him, pick a time when you can see he might be open to some dialogue, If you think it's a group problem, then maybe it's an idea for a few of you to approach him and tell him what you are feeling. Tell him honestly that you are doing your best but you feel it's just not working and you'd like to speak to him to understand what you can do to make things right. If they are a good coach they will always listen to their players because, as Sven Goran Eriksson the world famous soccer coach said to me 'Mark, if Im coaching a team it makes sense for me to talk to the players and ask them what they are feeling, what they like and what they don't like, after all THEY are playing not me. Common sense from one of the best coaches in the world, should work with your coach shouldn't it?? Let me know how you get on!!
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