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Coaching High School Soccer: Discover Confidence In Players
In coaching high school soccer, the first and the foremost quality that the players need to have or develop is confidence if they wish to become complete players. Often when you say that the players have to play under pressure in a game, it indicates your player’s lack of confidence to handle any situation. This is because it is only with confidence that we expect success.
Confidence is a choice and your players have to first choose to become confident. When coaching youth soccer, illustrate this point by telling them the behaviors of two parrots sitting on either shoulder.
One of them is the positive parrot, always urging the player to face up to the challenge saying “You can do it.” The other parrot has the tendency to de-motivate the players saying “You can’t do this.” Without a doubt, it’s the player who has to choose which parrot to take note of.
Also teach them to take full responsibility of the consequences that follow their choice. This decision could also be an everyday task. Develop brilliant players in your team by constantly reminding them of their participation in past successes to boost their confidence levels.
Train the players of the fact that in soccer coaching that putting the blame on something or someone else is a mark of insecurity. Rather they should take responsibility and consider setbacks as a part of the learning curve, not a failure that could shake confidence.
Similarly in coaching high school soccer, the most important self-conversation for any player missing an opportunity to score is the phrase “I’ll get the next one.”
Thus, confidence for the next strike is remains unaffected because of the distress of the miss.
A team is said to be successful if you have the ability to make quick judgments regarding a player’s ability to survive in competition. In football coaching, there is always a close call between judging physical and mental readiness, but in the end, physical readiness wins the battle.
To make such judgments easy, there is a need of searching clear messages. The spoken and unspoken messages of the player should be taken into account to ensure his or her ability to succeed in the game.
Confidence is the fruit of success. And success in soccer is more likely when you know you have done everything you could to get ready for situations that might build pressure. In order to make the players emotionally power-packed, a phrase “If you are not preparing to win, you are preparing to fail”, is frequently used.
Experience is essential to build confidence. To build a strong base of the much needed experience, the players must be trained to cope up with their mistakes, defeats and criticism and fears, calmly. The feeling of he or she having the knowledge, a little more know – how due to experience and thus, the thought process of planning the next step, prevails.
Never doubt it. While coaching high school soccer, building confidence is worked out on an everyday basis so, the players should echo upon the certain key steps to determine what works for them.
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