When you put your hand up to become a soccer coach you are taking on a huge responsibility. Along with that responsibility comes accountability. It does not matter at what level we are coaching, the responsibilities and accountabilities are the same.
A number of families involved with the county’s youth soccer community have united to defend a soccer coach who was accused last week of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl while attending a soccer camp.

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If you are involved in coaching youth soccer, there are a couple of things that you should try to focus on the most if you aspire to be successful. Firstly you should have a plan for every soccer training session and secondly you should be focusing on making training sessions as much fun as possible for everyone involved. I don’t just mean the kids. Soccer coaches should also find as much enjoyment as possible when leading the sessions.

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Although it is massively important that the soccer parents attend their children’s soccer games and soccer training in order to offer support and encouragement, it can become very annoying when they start getting overly helpful. This can become very disruptive and contribute to upsetting the well laid out plans that you have worked hard on refining. When a soccer parent witnesses another parent giving instructions to players it is natural for some of them to start doing the same. This can severely disrupt the children’s concentration while driving them crazy in the process.

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Total soccer fitness is the only way to move ahead in the sport, all the skill in the world will not help if your team is unable to run up and down the field for ninety minutes without feeling short of breath. As a soccer coach, I am a very big believer in my players being fit. They need to work extremely hard pre season and then taper off when the season commences. A good soccer fitness program will prepare any player for the stresses and strains that a game can produce and allow them to be able to perform at their very best level.

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Coaching youth soccer and working with kids can be both highly rewarding but extremely challenging. Ever wonder why teachers look so old after about five years of service? As a soccer coach, do you find yourself having to repeat everything maybe once, twice and then frustration sets in and you end up yelling and screaming at them? At that moment – you have probably lost your patience and you have also probably lost them!

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The soccer shin guard is the main piece of protective gear for a soccer player. Unlike some sports, there is minimal protective gear required for a soccer player, however should the soccer shin guard be worn at soccer training or is it only a requirement for soccer games? Why should you have to wear them at practice, no-one gets hurt at training, do they? In this article, I want to address these questions and also provide some tips on buying the right soccer shin guard for your child.

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When coaching youth soccer, it may seem fairly basic to coach players on how to tackle. After all, all you have to tell them is get in there, win the ball and start going forward – right? No, not quite!

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The primary objective of coaching youth soccer is to win the game.  Therefore, it is very important for a team to score goals, but it is also equally important to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals.  This task of preventing the opposing team from scoring falls to the players known as the defenders, or does it?  You may have heard in some games where a striker will call out and blame the defenders for a goal being scored against them or a soccer parent on the sideline blaming the defenders for letting another goal in. However, if you are coaching youth soccer, your defensive soccer tactics requires the involvement of every player as every player on the field has a role to play when it comes to defense.

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