Coaching 'Tip' - 05/14/12 02:57 PM
Practice does not make perfect -- practice makes permanent.
(Thus if you practice poorly, you will play poorly.)
The game is the best teacher -- the job of the coach is to present the game in a way that stimulates the players engagement and rewards the skills and cognitive development needed for a robust player.
I think ¨Never be a child´s last coach!¨ is one we should all take to heart. If I have a player leave the game because they love something else more, I am okay with that. What I hope they take away from the game is engagement, responsibility, and authority for their own game, own learning, own experience. Thus, if a player leaves soccer for horse jumping or fashion design, they apply the life skills: discipline, responsibility, and hopefully fun, from soccer and apply into other areas of their life, and they become their own coach.
(Thus if you practice poorly, you will play poorly.)
The game is the best teacher -- the job of the coach is to present the game in a way that stimulates the players engagement and rewards the skills and cognitive development needed for a robust player.
I think ¨Never be a child´s last coach!¨ is one we should all take to heart. If I have a player leave the game because they love something else more, I am okay with that. What I hope they take away from the game is engagement, responsibility, and authority for their own game, own learning, own experience. Thus, if a player leaves soccer for horse jumping or fashion design, they apply the life skills: discipline, responsibility, and hopefully fun, from soccer and apply into other areas of their life, and they become their own coach.