Coaches and managers must have a highly effective plan in order to develop young skillful players and a championship team that can contend in competitive leagues. Every coach and manager wants to win games, but to do so requires the proper development of players’ skills and should be or must be a priority. If your objective is to develop players and a highly competitive team, winning more games will eventually follow. This occurs if the player skills taught in training are required-to-be-put-to-use in game play. Following this plan, you will achieve greater success. Players will develop a useful self-confidence in soccer and possibly in other aspects of life. The self-confidence gained by being excellent in the sport such as soccer (under my coaching supervision) has proven itself to be highly beneficial to my children.

Before I go any further, it is necessary for me to offer my disapproval of coaches that are coaching young teams with only the desire to win games. Too many times I have seen coaches contradict themselves by chastising players during competitive matches. This chastising takes place as a player attempts, but errs, to apply (maybe for the first time) some newly learned skill in a competitive game, such as trapping and shielding under pressure The player endeavoring to apply the training received by the coach, loses the ball to the other team, and is scolded. Often, this player is strongly told something silly such as Pass the ball!. Following that, the player is often quickly removed from the game.