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AYSO National Coaching Program Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players

AYSO National Coaching Program Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players. Coaches: O ur Role in the AYSO Experience. Who are the Coaches ’ “ Customers? ”. Everyone Plays!. “ Customer service is not a department, it’s an attitude ” - Unknown. AYSO Ambassadors.

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AYSO National Coaching Program Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players

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  1. AYSO National Coaching Program Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players

  2. Coaches: Our Role in the AYSO Experience

  3. Who are the Coaches’“Customers?”

  4. Everyone Plays! “Customer service is not a department, it’s an attitude” - Unknown

  5. AYSO Ambassadors

  6. Great Coaching = Great Customer Service • Player Development Matters! • Why We Play the Game the Way We Do • Nurturing New Coaches

  7. Great Soccer Starts with Great Communication • You’re the Source! • Setting the Tone • Communicate, Communicate, Communicate! • Use Your Tools • Shutterfly Team Site • Team Parent • Division Coordinator, Coach Administrator, Board • Region Website

  8. We’re AYSO Ambassadors!

  9. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players Maximizing Coaching Moments… Create an opportunity to evaluate a player’s ability to execute a certain skill or task. How? Use free play to observe the player’s capabilities…

  10. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players Free Play: describes the condition where individuals play with minimal restrictions on time or space. • Players are given general directions on time or space • Players are given general directions on what they should attempt to accomplish and then left on their own • Players should play hard and stop when rest is warranted • Free play allows players to develop natural abilities…

  11. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players Free Play: • Free play avoids wasting time in organizing lines, capturing wandering players, etc • During free play, players avoid others, seek open space, and become more aware of the action around them…

  12. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players Added benefit of using Free Play: A coach’s observational powers will increase as they are forced to isolate action in a group…

  13. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players Teaching and Coaching Techniques There are required STEPS that a coach must follow in order to be an effective teacher (coach)…

  14. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players STEPS in teaching: • State the tactical objective of what you are trying to accomplish • Demonstrate the skill, activity or game • Involve new players - let the players try it • Get all remaining players involved • Analyze level of play and skills being used by players…

  15. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players STEPS in teaching: • Evaluate level of effort, commitment to training. • Are the training groups balanced? • Circulate and correct (use assistant coaches to supervise play and keep the organization going) • Make corrections as needed in a Positive, Instructive and Encouraging (PIE) manner • Communicate individual instructions, using concepts of psychological motivation (remember, they are kids -don’t embarrass them)…

  16. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players When playing games (or using activities), be sure: • Age and skill appropriate • A reason to play (tactical objective) • A person or team who finishes first (competition) • Manageable groups (number of groups) • Restrictions (grids, touch, time) • Consequences • Establishes a match-type situation • Coaching points and corrections • Re-evaluation • Able to transfer training to the game…

  17. Training Sessions provide an environment for teaching solutions to MATCH problems game→ options Use Coaching Moments Make your players think (mental activation) Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players

  18. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players The typical environment for teaching solutions to MATCH problems include using these methods : • Games (activities) used to duplicate match conditions • A game (activities) requires organization of the players to repeatedly execute a specific skill or tactic, or combination thereof • Think static to achieve technical ability and progress to dynamic as quickly as possible (build UP) • Coach must go from the simple to the complex, communicating in a language appropriate to that of the players with which they are working…

  19. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players Summary: If a coach understands how to teach using: Free Play The nine (9) step Teaching Technique Game related activities An environment for Teaching Solutions Coaches, Players and the Game WIN!...

  20. Maximizing Coaching Moments with Young Players Any questions? Thank You!...

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