Soccer Motivation: Understanding The Philosophy Of Coaching

Soccer motivation is perhaps the most important component of an effective youth soccer coaching.

In order to ensure that your players are motivated enough to win matches for you, there are certain levels of coaching philosophy that is important for you to develop and follow the same religiously.

For example, you should plan everything, keeping in mind the well being of the young players. Let the players know that you care for them. This will generate respect in them for you.

In order to develop a string comfort level with them, you should try to be friendly with the players.

Again, it is also important for you to understand that if you want to earn respect from the players, you should also learn to respect their feelings.

Teach them that soccer is a serious game and in order to succeed as a soccer player, it is mandatory for them to respect each other and play as a team.

In order to inculcate soccer motivation into your young players, you should focus on honesty and good sportsmanship.

Tell them about these attributes in a way that they should take it as mandatory attributes of a passionate soccer player.

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Soccer Motivation - How To Motivate Your Players

Soccer motivation is an important factor when it comes to coaching youth soccer training drills. There are a variety of ways that you can motivate your players and have them performing at optimum levels.

How well you do it also depends on your own attitude and personality and the way you interact with your players.

• How To Motivate Your Players

1. A "well planned" soccer training session is the first motivator. When teaching soccer, you can't make it a routine to have impromptu practice sessions. It must be based on careful planning, so that they address both individual player and group needs.
2. If your players don’t feel excited about what you have planned for them, even talented players can get boring. Here, consider substitute players. It can be tough to keep them happy and motivated. To solve this problem and overcome this, you can organize a weekly game where you attend to them exclusively while your assistant can handle your usual team on the same field.

When it comes to soccer motivation it's important that you keep in mind that if your players feel motivated about practice their performance will increase dramatically.

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Part 2 - Soccer Motivation - How To Motivate Soccer Players

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On soccer coaching, the key is to look at what they did right and say that you want to see them do it again. Instead of saying, “That was a good kick, but when you kick the ball, place your foot here,” try, “Hey, on that last penalty kick you had great follow through and made the shot. Let’s see that again and this time try placing your foot here.”

This is much more effective. Instead of feeling frustrated that they are not getting it right they will feel good about themselves for getting at least part of it right and they will be eager to do it again.

Of course there are times when they will get part of a technique right and not do something else in the proper way. Begin with pointing out the areas in which they performed well and then tell them you want to see it again with another part added in.

This way they will try again from the positive outlook that they can do it and they just need to adjust something. For example, instead of saying, “that was a good try, but when you kick the ball you need to kick through the ball. You are stopping short,” try saying, “Great kick! You foot positioning was bang on.

Now let me see it again and this time kick your foot all the way through the ball and see how much farther it will go.” Whether you are working with kids of adults, they will respond to this sort of encouragement.

When it comes to soccer motivation, it is also important to teach the players to positively reinforce their soccer team-mates and to encourage each other. In this way, players will feel even better about what they have accomplished, especially when they are nearing adolescence and their peers begin to have a greater influence on them than the adults in their lives do.

Motivating soccer players is about helping them feel good enough about themselves and what they are doing that they desire to strive for more. They will want to improve themselves and their game from the positive frame of mind that they are good players who are improving all the time, instead of feeling that they are inadequate and need to improve soccer skills to become good enough.

Follow these soccer coaching tips and I'm sure you'll motivate your players or kids to love the game.

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Soccer Motivation - How To Motivate Soccer Players (Part 1)

I got a lot of emails recently from soccer coaches and parents asking me to write something about soccer motivation and how to motivate their players or kids. The essential key to motivating soccer players is to help them to motivate themselves.

First, you need to set the example. This means that you need to use the "Golden Rule" and speak to them the way that you wish them to speak to you and the way you hope they speak to themselves.

Using positive reinforcement will go a long way to helping players feel good enough about themselves and their soccer game to want to strive for more. How? It is really very simple. Focus on the positive things and do not focus on the negative things.

We live in a rat race society and we tend to compare ourselves to others much of the time. Children go through school constantly being compared to others and then move to their post-secondary education looking to be the best so they can receive scholarships and awards.

Soccer parents and coaches need to know that their kids or players want to please them and they want to do well. They often focus on what they did wrong or what they did not do. In the end they can feel very frustrated, angry, and can even feel like a failure and this attitude can be carried onto the soccer field.

Using positive reinforcement means focusing on the positive or what went right. There is no need to look at what a player did not do properly. You may ask, how do you help a player correct poor soccer techniques or improve their soccer game without looking at what they did improperly. (continues... )

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