Motivation to Play Soccer


by John Salmon - Date: 2008-08-02 - Word Count: 624 Share This!

The coaching soccer, the key motivation of soccer players is to help them motivated.

First, you must lead by example. This means that you need to use the golden rule and talk about how you want to talk to you and how you hope they speak for themselves.

Using positive reinforcement will be a long way to help the players feel good enough about themselves and their soccer game to want to try more. How? It is really very simple. Focus on the positive things and not focus on negative things.

We live in a mad rush society and we tend to compare ourselves to other most of the time. The children go to school constantly compared to the other and then their post-secondary education who seek to be the best so they can receive scholarships and prizes.

They want to please their parents and they want to do. They often focus on what they did wrong or what did not. In the end, they may feel very frustrated, angry, and may even feel like a failure and this attitude can be transported on the soccer field.

The use of positive reinforcement with an emphasis on the positive or what happened. It is not necessary to look at what a player did not properly. May You ask, how can we help a player correct poor technique or improve their soccer game without looking at what they did wrong.

The coaching soccer, the important thing is to watch what they did right and say you want to see them do it again. Instead of saying, "It was a good kick, but when you hit the ball, put your foot here," try, "Hey, the latter penalty you had a lot of monitoring and did the coup. Let's see that again and this time, try to put your foot here. "

This is much more effective. Instead of feeling frustrated by not doing so right, they feel good about themselves for at least part of it right and they will be willing to do so again.

Of course there are times when they will get part of a technique right and not do something else in common sense. Start by emphasizing areas where they obtained good results and then tell them that you want to see again with another part added in.

In this way, they will try again the positive outlook they can do so and they just need to adjust something. For example, instead of saying, "which was a good try, but when you hit the ball, you need to kick through the ball. You're stopping short," try to say, "Great coup foot! You foot positioning was bang.

Now, let me see again and this time, your kick on foot through the ball and see how much further it will go. "Whether you are working with children from adults, they will respond to this kind of encouragement.

It is also important to teach players to positively strengthen their soccer team-mates and encourage each other. In this way, players feel even better about what they have accomplished, especially when they are in the process of adolescence and their peers are starting to have a greater influence on them as adults in their lives.

Motivating soccer players is to help them feel good enough about themselves and what they are doing their desire to strive for more. They will not fail to improve themselves and their game of the positive state of mind that they are good players who are improving all the time, instead feel they are insufficient and must improve their game to become good enough.

Follow these tips on coaching soccer and I am sure you motivate your players or children to love the game.


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