Sports Soccer Coaching and Trainings
There are many different styles and methods of coaching. Good coaches will mold their coaching style to fit the personality of their team. While it is important to set a style and method that is comfortable for you, it is equally important to consider the comfort level of your team. This is imperative if you coach children. While children must be encouraged to win, there are many more important aspects of the soccer game that should be considered with this particular age group. This includes working together as a team, and learning to have fun while participating in sporting events. Here, you will learn how to coach a fun soccer training session. Coaching any youth sport is extremely important.
Keep Players Moving
The first thing that you can do to coach a fun soccer training session is to ensure that you make it fun. With children as your team, it is important to create games and activities that all the team members can participate in. Try to avoid engaging in drills and similar things that mean that the children must stand in line and wait their turn. This is a great time waster when it comes to the development of your players, and can make the soccer training session extremely boring for the children.
Make a Well Plan
The second thing that you should do in order to coach a fun soccer training session is to be completely prepared. Come up with a list of exciting games and drills that the children can participate in. Make sure that these activities develop the overall skill and technique of each player. It is important for the soccer training session to be interactive and challenging for the child. If you are prepared, and know exactly what you want to focus on, the team is sure to have a wonderful time and learn many new things.
Prepare Your Team Practice
The third thing that you should do in order to ensure that you are making your soccer training fun and exciting for your players is to arrive before everyone else and set up the training area. This will allow you and your team to immediately start training once everyone has arrived. This avoids having to get the children to help set up activities and become bored before they even start. You may wish to encourage early arrival by explaining to members that the last two people to arrive will need to pick up the cones and the balls used during the training session. This makes prompt arrival a fun and challenging game, and will encourage those that arrive last to get there a little earlier next time. Furthermore, this will be a great help to you after an exhausting training session!
The optimal soccer warm up involves:
It is nothing but complex movements and dynamic stretching. You should always have a warm up session prior to any soccer training. While you are training to increase the overall effectiveness of your skill and technique in soccer, it is important to warm up the muscles throughout the body to ensure that you reduce the chance for injury. Soccer training is physically tolling on the body and you greatly increase your risk of injury if you fail to prepare the body prior to your workout. Possible injuries include muscle sprains, muscle strains and tears. I will share with you the overall importance of a warm up prior to soccer training in this article.
Muscle Movements:
Muscles that have not been properly warmed up are often extremely tight. The tighter that a muscle is, the more chance it has of being damaged under tension. During soccer training, you introduce your body to a wide range of tense movements. Some of these movements include turning in a quick fashion, twisting in often unnatural ways, as well as simple and complicated stretching. These types of movements can result in numerous injuries. Some examples of these injuries include muscle sprains, strains throughout the various muscles, and even tears in the delicate tissue of the muscles.
The Optimal soccer warm up will create "warmness" throughout the muscles. These warm tissues are able to be more reactive than their cold counterparts. This reduces the amount of tension that the muscles naturally contain. Engaging in a our warm up prior to soccer training is a form of relief for the muscles. Furthermore, if muscles are relaxed, your soccer game benefits. The way that it benefits is that it increases the overall speed at which you are able to perform, the power at which you move, as well as the ability to maintain a higher level control of your techniques.
Optimal soccer warm ups include forward lunge and reach, back lunge and reach, side long and diagonal lunges. These are all very good because they warm up the large leg muscles and make you stretch through your hips and core. You should also include 90-90s, scorpion stretches and sumo squats. Once you've gone through this circuit you should do some light ball work to fully get the brain and body engaged.
Some of the ball work that you might do to get started includes rotating the soccer ball with your foot in a circular motion. This is a great way to loosen up those muscles in the legs, ankles, and feet. You may wish to stretch out your arms by holding the ball over your head and moving it in different positions, such as side to side and front to back. Using the soccer ball in conjunction with your soccer training warm up sessions can be a very effective and exciting method.
Warm Up:
Prior to the start of your soccer training, you need to engage in warm up activities such as these. Without proper warm ups there is too much risk of injury. But with proper warm ups optimal performance can be achieved.
While many coaches may not consider "having fun" a key component of a soccer training session with children, it is important to understand that this IS the most important component. If you have a team full of happy players, their performance will be better. The team will be more successful as a whole if they are having fun and are not overwhelmed with negativity during soccer training sessions.
The Pitch
The playing area ('pitch') must be rectangular and be between 90m (100yds) and 120m (130yds) long and between 45m (50yds) and 90m (100yds) wide. The end lines are called goal lines and the side lines are called touch lines.
The Ball
The ball must be spherical with a circumference of between 68cm (27in) and 70cm (28in) and a weight between 410gm (14oz) and 450gm (16oz).
Teams / Players
A match ('game') consists of 2 teams, each with no more than 11 players - including a goalkeeper ('goalie') - and no less than 7 players.
Player's Kit
Basic kit consists of a shirt, shorts, socks, shin guards and boots/shoes. Goalkeepers must wear colors different from other players - including their own side - and match officials.
Match Officials
Each match is controlled by a referee supported by 2 assistant referees. He stops the game by means of a whistle for any infringement. He also acts as timekeeper. The assistant referees indicate by flag when the ball is out of play. They also flag when they see infringements that the referee may not have seen.
Game Duration
A game consists of 2 halves of 45 minutes each, with an interval (half-time) of a maximum of 15 minutes. The referee may add on additional time at the end of each half to compensate for time lost through injuries, substitutions and players' deliberate 'time-wasting.'
Starting the Game
A coin is tossed to decide which team gets to choose which goal to attack. The losing team gets to take the kick-off to start the game. The teams change ends for the second half. A kick-off is also used after a goal is scored.
Ball Out of Play
A ball is out of play ('out') when the whole ball has crossed the goal line or touch line.
Goals
A goal has been scored when the whole ball has crossed the goal-line between the goal-posts. The team scoring the most goals wins. If both teams score the same number of goals - or neither team scores - the game is drawn.
Offside Rule
A player is penalized for offside if at the instant the ball was played by a team mate, the player was actively involved in the play and did not have 2 opposing players between him/her and the opposition's goal line. The player is not in an offside position if he/she is in his/her own half, or, is level with the second last opponent, or, receives the ball from a goal kick, corner kick or throw-in. An indirect free kick is awarded for offside.
Free Kicks and Penalty Kicks
There are 'direct' and 'indirect' free kicks. These are just some of the offences for which a direct free kick is awarded:- hitting, kicking; tripping; pushing; deliberate hand ball; etc. Similarly for an indirect free kick we have:- dangerous play; impeding an opponent ('obstruction'); a goalie holding the ball for more than 6 seconds; a goalie handling the ball after it has been passed to him by a team mate, etc.
At the subsequent free kick, all opposition players must be a minimum of 9.15m (10yds) from where the ball is placed. A penalty kick is awarded for any infringement which takes place inside the penalty area for which a direct free kick would normally have been awarded if it had occurred outside the area.
Goal Kicks
Awarded to the defending team when the whole of the ball crosses the defending team's goal line - not between the goal posts because that is a goal - after having been last touched by an attacking player.
Corner Kicks
Awarded to the attacking team when the whole of the ball crosses the defending team's goal line - not between the goal posts because that is a goal - after having been last touched by a defending player.
Throw-Ins
Awarded to a team when the whole ball crosses a touch line after having been touched by a member of the opposing team.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
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