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Coaching drills and information
If you would like to send us any of your favourite drills or coaching ideas please e-mail them to us. This page is a notice board for you as coaches to communicate with fellow coaches across the world. If you are searching for coaching work, if as a club you are seeking to employ a qualified coach or maybe you want to start your own team and don't know how to go about it. Write to us and we will try and help with some useful advice.

Drill of the month
TOPIC: Send us your favourite drillor coaching session to be included each month.

Yours questions answered

Q: How do I deal with soccer parents ?
A: This is always an issue that presents itself the world over in youth soccer. Whether it is a parent who constantly badgers the manager for their child to play, giving coaching advice from the side line, screaming at the referee. The only way to try and make some progress is to get all the parents of the team together before the season starts and outline as the manager what your intentions are with regard to playing a certain way, who best fits the team shape and making it clear from the start whether your team is going to adopt a highly competitive approach, therefore only the strong players will represent the team at the beginning of each game with the weakest players on the reserve bench. It is never an easy job being the manager no matter at what level. You only have to see the turnover in the sacking of managers at professional level to see that unrest when a team does not deliver is down to how the manager runs the team and what his policies are in problem solving.

Q: I would like to arrange a trial for my son, how do I go about it?
A: Parents expectations of children and their potential are somewhat different from a clubs and their scouts. In the first instance it is best to talk with your child's manager or coach before approaching any club. It is only etiquette to always talk with him first before sending a letter off to your local club. The manager or coach will have spotted who has potential and will often help the parent with contacts and arranging a convenient day to have a scout watch the player concerned. How many children across the world play soccer and are successful in obtaining a contract to pass through an Academy is very small. It is very stressful if a young player goes through the selection process only to be turned down due to the competitive nature selection. The rebuff could really knock their confidence, therefore think very carefully before approaching a scout. Perhaps your child does not want to play professionally, he or she really enjoys the game at youth level and will go on to play up to an amateur level and no more.