Coaching Junior Football Teams For Dummies -

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Résumé :

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Conventions Used in This Book 2

What You're Not to Read 2

Foolish Assumptions 3

How This Book Is Organised 3

Part I: Getting Started Coaching Football 3

Part II: Building Your Coaching Skills 4

Part III: Beginning and Intermediate Football 4

Part IV: Advanced Football Strategies 4

Part V: The Finer Details 5

Part VI: The Part of Tens 5

Icons Used in This Book 5

Where to Go from Here 6

Part I: Getting Started Coaching Football 7

Chapter 1: Coaching Children in Football 9

Striking a Balance between Parenting and Coaching 9

Kicking around the decision with your kid 10

Focusing on family-friendly football rules 11

Doing Your Homework 12

Working with - and not against - parents 13

Deciphering rules and mastering terminology 14

On the Pitch 14

Planning training sessions 14

Match day 15

Chapter 2: Getting Organised 17

Developing a Coaching Philosophy 17

Tailoring your coaching to your age group 18

Emphasising teamwork 20

Motivating players 22

Fostering a positive atmosphere 23

Making every kid count 23

Focusing on fun and skill development 24

Modelling good sportsmanship 25

Understanding the League You're Coaching In 26

Knowing your league's rules 27

Playing for fun or first place 28

Chapter 3: Knowing the Football Basics 31

Inside the Lines 31

Taking Up Position 34

Positions on the pitch 34

Placing kids in the appropriate positions 39

Deciphering the Rules of the Game 41

Putting the Ball Back into Play 43

Throw-in 43

Corner kicks 44

Goal kicks 44

Adjusting the Game for the Younger Leagues 45

Smaller pitch size 45

Smaller balls 46

No-goalie games 46

Fewer players 46

Special substitution rules 47

The Men (and Women) in Black: Referees 48

Hand signals 48

Major fouls 50

Types of penalties 51

Minor fouls 52

Offsides 53

Part II: Building Your Coaching Skills 57

Chapter 4: Meet the Parents 59

Introducing Yourself 60

Explaining your coaching philosophy 61

Emphasising good sportsmanship 62

Detailing how you determine playing time 63

'Who's playing goalie?' and other sticky positioning situations 65

Putting Together the Paperwork 66

League paperwork 66

Team packs 67

Assembling Your Parent Posse 68

Choosing assistant coaches 68

Defining supporting roles 69

Going Over Equipment 71

Meeting Players' Special Needs 73

Answering Parents' Questions 73

Chapter 5: Evaluating Your Team 75

The Art of Evaluation 75

Evaluating your players' skills 76

Identifying team strengths and weaknesses 78

Lining 'Em Up 80

Assigning team positions 80

Finding roles for everyone 82

Understanding and Interacting with All the Kids 83

The shy child 83

The uncoordinated child 84

The child with the short attention span 85

The athletically gifted child 86

The child who doesn't want to be there 87

The disruptive child 88

The child with special needs 89

The bully 90

The inexperienced child 91

The ball hog 92

The average child 94

Chapter 6: Running a Great Training Session 97

Coming to Training Prepared 97

Bringing balls and cones 98

Packing your first-aid kit 99

First Training Session: Kicking Off the Season 1...

Biographie:
The National Alliance For Youth Sports has been America's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children for the past 25 years. It serves volunteer coaches, parents with children involved in organized sports, game officials, youth sports administrators, league directors, and the youngsters who participate in organised sport. The Alliance's programmes are used in more than 3,000 communities across the USA by parks and recreation departments, Boys & Girls Clubs, Police Athletic Leagues, YMCAs/YWCAs, and various independent youth service groups, as well as on military installations worldwide. For more information on the Alliance's programmes visit www.nays.org.

Greg Bach is the communications director for the National Alliance For Youth Sports, a position he has held since 1993. Before joining NAYS, he worked as the sports editor of the Huron Daily Tribune in Bad Axe, Michigan, where he captured numerous writing awards from the Associated Press, Michigan Press Association, and the Hearst Corporation. He has a journalism degree from Michigan State University, which he earned in 1989. He's an avid sport fan and has coached a variety of youth sports.

James Heller has been involved in football on and off for over 35 years. As a player, he played from youth-team level through into senior football. He has also helped to coach and manage football teams at several different age levels. In his time associated with 'the beautiful game' he has seen junior football coaching in the UK improve from a situation where 20 children ran around a muddy park aimlessly chasing the ball, watched by two cold goalkeepers, to one where the focus is on mini-soccer, skills improvement, and 'one child, one ball' training sessions.