Inside Sport

Coaching one's own kids and respecting coaches


https://forum.insidesport.com.au/Topic2358265.aspx

By Decentric - 8 May 2016 11:08 PM

I've seen some awful behaviour from coaches' kids on the pitch, particularly elite programmes as players reach their teens.

In the juniors, most parents are just happy for anyone to coach the team rather than themselves. Often someone with any interest in football finds themselves coaching juniors.

As they age and some kids want to start clowning around at training, I won't hesitate to give them marching orders/suspensions for one scrap of disrespect.

My belief is that most coaches are volunteers. Hence, anyone disrespecting a coach who has undergone coach education in their own time and gives up their time to coach kids on a weekly basis, should be appreciated by them - and parents.

I was once teaching at one school, where I had no active role in their associated football club. I had some time to kill and watched about 10 teams train one night.

I was appalled at the disrespect shown by many kids to their coaches. The next day I held a meeting for all football players in the school and read them the riot act about respecting their coaches.

What sorts of experiences have others had?
By General Ashnak - 19 May 2016 10:32 PM

Decentric wrote:
General Ashnak wrote:
I believe that, we had a family move their son to a different club because we didn't select him to trial for the chance to trial for selection to the State U12 development squad (which basically just engaged in some extra training over the summer holidays). It was a blessing in disguise though as he was a horrendous ball hog who didn't listen at training and believed that athleticism would be a substitute for skill.


Good to see you back, GA.:)

It is a challenge coaching kids who have talent, but think they know it all.

I try to treat all kids equally and fairly. Ball hogs came up at my first coaching course in the old days before the changed curriculum. The TD, David Abela at the time, said he loved them , because they had talent. He joked send them to him!

Some coaches used a video to show kids what they don't want. I've pulled kids up who are hogging at training in the Game Training phase of play when we are supposed to stop play and discuss player actions and options.

When teammates point out better options first, before the coach suggests a better option when play is stopped and the coach asks the player, then teammates suggest what could have been preferable options, the message soon becomes apparent.


Cheers D :)

I'm coaching U10s at the moment so we're not as stressed about the tactical side of the game as we are about them utilising the skills we are teaching them at the correct moment. Learning to read the flow of play and their team mates more than how to create the situations. Next season we'll work on that :)