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Empower Your Players
Teach your players to
communicate on the field, don't constantly yell instructions from the
sidelines. Encourage your players to do the communicating, allowing them
to develop valuable thinking and communication skills. Another reason the
players need to do the communication themselves is to keep the parents and
coaches from feeling like they need yell. If players are quiet on the
playing field, parents immediately feel the need to yell something. When
players show they are in control of the situation, the sidelines tend to
quiet down! Demonstrate effective communication and encourage your players
to practice communicating during practices and scrimmages. Remind your
players before each game to communicate effectively, monitor their
communication and provide feedback at halftimes and after each game.
Effective communication
sends quickly processed messages to more than one player at a time, using
as few words as possible. Effective communication needs to be practiced,
discussed during practices and needs to become second nature. When
effective communication is second nature, players are demonstrating the
ability to think quickly on their feet, process information, and control
situations efficiently through their communication. During games, allow
the players to do their own thinking and communicating, you may be
pleasantly surprised!
To communicate
effectively, players should learn how the speak the language of soccer.
Use the soccer vocabulary words and terms, and the soccer glossary as
references to help your players develop their communication skills on the
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