What a coach must transmit to his players

What a coach must transmit to his players. I thought about it after this start of the season and many others who preceded. This topic came to mind through the exchanges from the site and the observations on the ground. It is a bit the question of the role of the coach: what should his priority players pass? What should predominate in its function? It is advice to new coaches and this can serve as a confirmation reminder.

What a coach must transmit to his players

It is clear that everyone has their own way of doing on the field and everyone has their own way of being. The same goes for the players, the same goes for the coaches. Everyone has a different sensitivity depending on the game. The coaches have their desires and game principles. Yet this is a question that often returns to us by e-mail or during discussions with some coaches: what should I transmit to my players in priority?

This is a question that I have been asked for some time. At the beginning I obviously thought of the principles of play, the system, the analysis: knowledge of football and football skills. It is logical to train that you have to know your sport, your football. I thought I had to answer any questions, know what to say and what to do with your players. And then the years of training that exceed my point of view have changed

The most important point is enthusiasm!

This is what the coach must transmit.

Let’s make a difficult sport in many ways. It is already played in the foot with a spherical object on a disagreement (with the exception of those that evolve on synthetic) most of us evolve into an amateur environment. They therefore have a group of players who come to train after work or lessons and often at night. Football is played outdoors and sometimes in the rain and cold.

Exciting isn’t it?

You believe that if the coach manages the session without smiling, without communicative joy, without pleasure in transmission; Will the balance of enthusiasm accompany the right side? Do you think that if the coach does not offer motivating content in which the players face problems with problems, with the balloon the players will be very enthusiastic?

You have the answer.

We still see too often the coaches who play to be a coach and have forgotten (or have never had it) the meaning of what they do: football. It’s a game!

It is inconceivable to see a coach on the edge of the field that never smiles, static, hands in the pockets and that spends his time screaming from the touch to the solutions to the players … always negatively … or well that it is soft, not very lively (this is not a caricature …)

The coach is there to offer content that arouses envy. The content includes exercises rigorously but also everything around. Verbal communication by what he says but also not verbal from his attitude by what he transmits through his body language.

Use the reasons

The coach must motivate the players. Coming to training is not enough. The players come for more than that! You are also there to motivate them to stimulate them.

Not all players have the same mode of main motivation and it is important to know them and see which ones are dominant in your players.

There is the profile of the players who are in a collective. What matters for them is to make itself useful to the team. Rather, they will make their partner shine and they will be very high. On the other hand, they are strongly involved in group life and have a great interest in cohesion in the right relationship with others. These players are a bit like the cement of your group. They will be an important support to transmit the general enthusiasm

Then there are the players, who must be stimulated by solving the problem. The routine is not made for them. Offer several times the same exercise clearly I will not like it and you will frustrate them. Same thing with grooved content. They want to progress constantly and learn new things. For these players there you have to think about your sessions and exercises as problems to be solved with changes in situations.

Finally, the third profile concerns the most separate players who want to stand out in one way or another. They will want to make the difference personally: mark a goal, take a ball from a skylight, be successful in a challenge. Be presented.

Some players will be able to strongly pay a single profile when others will draw a lot from one profile, a little in another. One thing is sure you have to take it into consideration when you think your sessions and football exercises. You have to ask yourself which profiles of the players will prospery in this or that exercise. So, in the animation of your session, you can request corresponding players to involve them even more. You can also be more vigilant so that some do not resume.

I believe that many coaches should remember this formula before each of the training sessions that must think and animate.

The only good question that exists:

• Would I be happy with this session if I had been a player?

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