Objective

 

 

 

 

The objective of this website is to share some of my experience playing and coaching this beautiful game.

 

My philosophy of coaching is to develop players as human beings through the game of soccer.

 

Soccer is a team sport  and i believe it is importante for players to understand and learn the skills necessary to play the game on a high performance. The game has to have a high degree of trust, accountability and interdependence, create synergy with strong sense of mutual commitment, communication, coordination, mutual support, effort and cohesion.

 

Here I am going to share my experiences and belifs of some important topics to be studied, developed, learned and practiced.

 

I believe it is importante to learn the leadership types and skills, learn how to be a leader on the soccer field so they can be a leader also on their school, comunity and life.

 

• Have and know a purpose of life

• Learn about SELF (strengh and weakness)

• What motivates one to play?

• To have an objective, a dream, a goal to strive and be achievied

• Control of the mind and emotions (thoughts and feelings)

• To Believe

• Self-steem

• Quick mind change (mistake, failure, error, frustation, disappointment)

• TO BE A CHAMPION! People need to act, talk, think, wear, practice, and play as a champion

• Learn and practice how to work as a team

• Work on technical skills, fitness, tactical skills and physicologic, emotional and mental, which are the three most important skills to be learned

 

On the field, there are some important concepts to be learned:

• I have the ball life is good

• I am the boss “not the ball”

• Lose-fight to get it back

• Learn spacing

• Control over the body and the mind (coordination and rhythm)

• Psychomotor (physical)

• Cognitive (learning)

• Psychosocial (emotional) become sensitive to other children’s needs and values, learn to handle exclusion and dominance, manage their emotions and learn self-control, as well as share power, space and ideas with others. At all levels of development, play provides opportunities for children to feel comfortable and in control of their feelings by allowing the expression of emotions in acceptable ways. Soccer provides children with the opportunity to negotiate and resolve conflict

 

Off the field:

• Rest and recovery

• Nutrition

• Adequate time to warm-up before games and after traveling a long distance

• Consideration extreme environmental conditions

• Peak at championship time

• Organized, structered soccer practice

• Safe and appropriate training area

 

I have studied and created my own motivation model. My motivation model is a combination of some theories(Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs) plus my own beliefs. I believe some of people's lower needs need to be satisfied before the higher needs are satisfied. I believe that it is so important for an individual to know and understand their own values and centre of truth. Athletes need to learn more about themselves, have a purpose in life, grow spiritually, understand and know how to control the mind and emotion in order to have the best performance they can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE COMPETENCIES:

Balancing the competencies

• Technical

• Tactical

• Physical

• Mental and Emotional

The emotional competency is the capability to control the different emotional feelings athletes have, their own motivation and dealing with the up and down moments they face everyday.

The athlete’s performance is related to their emotional and mental competency, which I believe is the most important competency.

I believe the whole sports world recognizes the value of the technical, tactical, and physical training, but the biggest challenge that athletes have comes from the emotional and mental competency, which have a big impact on the other ones.

Balance these different competencies can help athletes to perform closer to their highest level and closer to perfection.

 

The importance of having, creating or discovering a purpose in life.

I believe there are four stages to do that:

• Dream and Vision

• Passion

• To Believe

• To Do

It is important to know the diference between a dream and a vision.

Athletes can dream for a long time, maybe for their entire lives, but if they never do anything to make this dream a reality the chances are that it will never happen.

The vision then is the plan to make a dream a reality.

All these four stages are part of a mental training, which goes along with the tactical, physical and technical training. The first mental training is the dream and the vision. If athletes do not have their own dream, something they believe is worth achieving; there is probably a chance that they are in somebody else’s dream.