By Decentric - 4 May 2015 1:13 PM
Fantastic read, Krones.=d>
The message from the article, is that high quality level coaching needs to be spread as widely as possible. That is well beyond NTC pathways.
So many supposed elite players, give up early their careers.
As a coach I'm one of the least likely to adulate talented payers. I've received players who have been built up as demigods and have been afforded preferential treatment by some previous coaches. They find it difficult to contend with my style, where I always have something they need to work on to improve. It is doing players a disservice for them to think of themselves as stars within a team.
The new coaching methodology in Australia has so many facets of criteria to appraise players, there is room for improvement in most areas.
When one looks at:
Technique (First Touch, Striking The Ball, 1v1 Attacking and Defensive Skills and Running with The Ball).
Insight (game sense).
Communication.
Football conditioning.
There are always areas for players to improve.
Prima donnas don't like to hear this, because they have often had an exalted status of their ability, because their previous evaluations have been too narrow.
I've had some of the technically weaker players, and less talented athletes, devoid of self confidence, who have had infinitely superior game sense to some of their star teammates.
Praising their game sense and asking them to instruct others on the pitch has not gone down well with some of their teammates who consider themselves better players, but who've had relatively low football intelligence.
This has also been the case coaching mixed gender teams, with females often having better game sense than males, although inferior athletes and technicians.
With the diversity of football criteria, one can usually find aspects of players' games to praise, particularly the many players who lack confidence.
The most important facets of football are that players enjoy playing and continue to play, not quit.
I still haven't seen the whole Galaxy exercise in sessions in the video, but will revisit it eventually.
Edited by Decentric: 4/5/2015 01:17:01 PM
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