Soccer Coaching Tips

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My team got scored on 3 times in about two minutes at start of game. LOL! Then it got worse. LOL! Some of my best players were standing there waiting for the other guy to make a move so they were getting beat bad on a lot of parts of the game. My best goalie was getting his butt handed to him.

We were playing a pretty good team. Probably the best one yet. But we just weren't clicking together as a team and hustling was terrible.
So half time we are down 6 to 0. LOL!

So I gathered the players far away from their parents and talked to them the entire half time allowed about having days like this personally, and in life, on the sports field and off. Told them how you handle adversity in life is what you are made out of. {I've explained the word adversity to them before} I told them they need to erase the first half from your mind. Go out there and have fun. You will have fun by husling for the ball and playing as a team.

Will it worked! The other team didn't score the second half. We scored 5 goals to lose by one.
Most importantly though they discovered something about themselves as players being teammates, when playing like a team, they actually won the game in my mind. And they said they had fun and agreed the best thing was to quit feeling down about the first half and erasing it from their heads
I saw a lot of lights go on in their heads after the game as we talked about how when we passed the ball and hustled as a team we had fun and played well.
This was one of my most successful feelings as a coach.
My players responded and became winners in my mind!