High Performance Soccer Coaching for elite coaches and teams

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High Performance Soccer Coaching

Planning a coaching staff meeting is vitally important to the success of the team.
Treat it as a meeting, even if the other coaches are friends and family.
Look at it a professional endevour that needs your utmost attention.
Formalize where the support is and their areas of responsibility.
Draw up a simple yearly plan for the those responsible for the player.
Then draw up a "YPI", (Yearly Planning Instrument).
This is part of the High Performance Soccer Coaching plan.

Implementation;

The Basic Coaching Program will give you a great idea of the issues involved in planning a
successful season.
Each of the areas needs on going attention to detail.

Periodization needs to be embedded into the YPI.
So study this section and reap the benefits.

Consider the following ideas:

Competitions

Create a daily routine focussed around a nutrition plan.
Plan extra time for warm up whereby mental focus is the key ingredient.

Try a collective stretching routine so that the players are taking care of each other
thereby taking care of themselves.
Thus creates a model for total team participation.

Involve the team by picking a "Captain", that is someone who everybody looks up to
and gains strength and inspiration from. This doesn't always have to be the best player.
This is that person with the gift of imparting the aspirations and ideas of the team.

Go over strategies and tactics with the coaching staff on an ongoing basis.
Have an open door to information from all around you. Things change quickly towards the
end of competitons and fresh information might be the key to when and how to
further your team's objectives.
This might be a simple as the other teams in the competition losing a "star" player through
injury or some other mishap.
However don't try something completely new, like a different system of defense or an
attacking pattern.
Your team will only get confused, unless they have been coached by different coaches
and are willing and able to face change and additional challenges.

Stay positive and supportive towards all of those around you.
Yes competitions are important but not the end of the world and are often the beginning of
another phase.

Going for the GOLD is a great motivator, but coming in second is a great place to be out of a
large competition.
The fact is that most players, team, coaches and even clubs don't even get a chance to
compete for the podium or medals.
This is also an excellent time to create new opportunities for learning for the coaching staff,
the team, and all those involved with the program.

Tournaments;

Parent involvement and team dynamics, the social aspect of inclusion will only benefit you
because everybody will tend to buy into the over all plan.
Leave people out and they feel like they can only critisize when something goes wrong.

Nutritional plan;

Creating a very specific nutritional plan for a tournament week-end accomplishes two things.
Firstly it provides the guidance for the players to get the best nutrition that will sustain them
over the duration of the competition.
When the competition is over they are rewarded by being able to be free to choose what
they want.

The second is a form of community social control.
This means that everybody is buying into another aspect of the focus of the team,
and what better way to do it than through food.
Now eveybody is involved and their collective responsibility is being placed forth and tested.

People like a challenge and like being responsible for the progress of the team.
Although it is all being done for the athlete the others involved in and around the team can
also learn what good nutrition is and how it effects their day to day lives.

It gives the team another aspect to focus on besides the score line and the wins and loses
balance sheet in a positive way.

These nutritional plans need to be age specific and gender sensitive.
Games and tournaments have been won and lost of the energy levels of teams.
Nutrition is a large part of the level of fitness.

Try this great resource for the best of the nutritional plans.

Remember to keep yourself in great shape so that you can also perform at the higher levels.

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