One of the things you want to learn when you start to train youth football is that failure is not just a reality, it's one of the best teachers around. As a youth football coach, if you create an environment where your players are scared to fail, they won't learn how to truly succeed. You're also attempting to teach a game that needs players to be in a position to think, and to respond to different eventualities on the field as they occur. When you coach youth football you are working with young players that are still trying to work out what works,and what doesn't work for them. Football players can control one thing – their own play. People spend their efforts making an attempt to frustrate negative outcomes. So one group looks to maximise gains, while the other group looks to reduce losses. Football coaches can identify this bias in individual players and use it to satisfy their players ‘ potential. After they learn the game, many groups expect the keeper to be in a position to direct other players where to place themselves on the field.
When the opposition is attacking, it's the keeper that directs the defenders, informing them who they should cover, and indicating open players that might pose a threat. Your goalkeeper should be a player that will keep an eye fixed on the ball without being distracted by all the action that's happening round the ball. They require fast reactions so that they can catch the ball when it comes their way, or at the least punch it away from the goal. Children play football because it’s fun. You are not attempting to win the Cup are you? Provide sessions that are fun to promise that your players attend all of the sessions. Your players can't improve or develop if their not attending coaching, are they able to? Education / Development As a coach and idol, it’s your responsibility to teach these youngsters the fundamentals of the game. Infrequently that may be overwhelmed by running drills that teach aggressiveness. Abilities like passing, shooting, dribbling and tackling should be taught at a young age.
Some players need to be shown that they can compete, and that is OK to push opponents off the ball, when it is done right. It is about learning the best way to tone the very assertive player down, while simultaneously getting the very shy player to turn it up. But that's what learning to coach youth football is fundamentally about.