What are your principles of coaching?
Hi Everyone, welcome to another edition of the Coach Insight newsletter. The world cups starts this weekend (or has started if you’re reading this after Sunday). Usually always an exciting time for players and coaches, from players recreating the goals and skills seen in the game to the excitement of watching the country you support advance further and further. Usually for me, the world cup doesn’t coincide with training but now those of younger age groups can use this as an opportunity to bring the World Cup into their training sessions.
Right, so this week we have coaching principles, session co-creation, traits of top young players, free content, and more!
Top Ten Of The Week
Your coaching and behaviour should be led by principles and here we have Andrew Moses distilling 13 principles he’s learned from top-level coaches. Which ones are the same as yours, would you adopt any, and are there any you think are missing?
You may or may not have heard of E-sports but it’s a massive industry that draws in football-sized stadium live audiences, let alone the millions that view online. E-sports teams are now tapping into all the elements that professional sports use to gain advantages for their athletes. Here Dan Abrahams goes through the 5 biopsychosocial pillars he used with one team to give them the best chance of winning their tournament. Which they did!
Lots of work in professional and academy environments on co-creating with their players. Tom Hartley outlined how they approached this method of coaching at Arsenal Women.
Have a look at this infographic Ray Power posted from Liverpool FC’s academy. Whilst this isn’t something to directly give to players, it’s a good process for a coach to see how their principles will play out in different scenarios and then inform your training sessions.
Another Ray Power article but this time outlining the psychological traits of europe’s elite young players. We may not have players of that level technically or tactically but there’s nothing to stop us from helping develop the psychological skill set that will help them in all areas of life. pick your top 10 and think about how you can help develop them in your players.
This is an interesting article from Pavball. Asking the question of realism within our sessions. Some of the examples used were a player who can play on both sides, defending more than one goal, and massive overloads. I understand his point, we do need to make sure our sessions are as close to the real game as possible but I think this is more about plug-and-play copying sessions. if you’re using constraints or other elements to bring out behaviours or help our players recognise patterns then I don’t see it being too much of an issue, especially, if you’re going back to a game at the end of your sessions. Read and see what you think. https://www.pavfunballacademy.co.uk/2020/04/20/unrealistic-practices-common-thing-or-exception-to-the-rule-impact-on-players-learning/
Free content alert! Session ideas from David Baird.
Scoreboard Soccer Games ⚽️🏃 Creative Games 👇 scoreboardsoccer.com/dl/scoreboard/… Technical Games👇 scoreboardsoccer.com/dl/scoreboard/… Physical Games 👇 scoreboardsoccer.com/dl/scoreboard/… Educational Games 👇 scoreboardsoccer.com/dl/scoreboard/… Webinar 📺👇 scoreboardsoccer.com/dl/webinars/s/…Lots of talk of principles this week, sorry! Philip O’Callaghan here giving us 5 principles of skill acquisition (the thing we’re all involved in helping our player achieve).
Mark Jenkins with 5 tips to create better training sessions. which of the 5 do you agree with and are there any missing?
Another handy template but this time from The Sporting Resource. A player review template that can be used to have some 1 on 1 feedback with your players and parents/carers. This can be a great way to not only show where you think they are in their development but get their and their parent’s/carers feedback too. Used in the right way with the right EQ you’ll see some amazing results.
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