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Are You a Coach In Name, or In Action?

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When you set-up a game for mindless fun, you are an organiser.
When you set-up a game to challenge a skill, you are a coach.

When you respond to mistakes emotionally, you are a supporter.
When you respond to mistakes intellectually, you are a coach.

When you send eleven children to win a game, you are a manager.
When you send eleven children to learn the game, you are a coach.

Coaching is a thought process followed by informed actions.

Motivation matters.

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About Pavl Williams

Pavl Williams is a professional soccer coach and author specialising in grassroots and youth development. He is Editor of Better Football and The Coaching Manual and has been an expert contributor to FourFourTwo Performance, Sky Sports, BBC and NSCAA coaching features.

  • Steve

    Pavl, I like this “Are you a Coach” piece (never too sure if this type of thing is a poem or prose !)

    • http://www.betterfootball.net Pavl Williams

      Thanks! Hopefully gets ‘coaches’ thinking!

  • Alberto

    “When you respond to mistakes emotionally, you are a supporter.

    When you respond to mistakes intellectually, you are a coach. ”

    Nice quotes.
    how about “The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.” from John Madden.

    You’ve got a cool website, Thank’s to you i do learn very much about Football coaching.


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