Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching | Tags: make your players strong, motivational speech, what to say before a match
Good coaches are good motivators. American football coach Vince Lombardi was one of the best and he was good at getting his team prepared for matches by sending them out with a great speech.
It is a brilliant way to get your team really geared up for the game ahead by making a big motivational speech.
Listen to this one and use it next time your team plays.
Click here to watch a video featuring the speech by Vince Lombardi
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Refereeing, Uncategorized | Tags: aggressive coaches, coach hits ref, coach punches referee, respect the referee
I’ve just been to a tournament today and seen all sorts of behaviour. Last week I was pleasantly surprised by how competitive but happy the tournament was. This week I was brought back down to earth by the behaviour of some of the coaches towards the referees.
It’s easy to criticize them – I was left dumbfounded over the match we played where the tournament organizers were playing against us and they hit a shot that hit the post and went past the goal but the referee said it had gone through the net. We bit our tongues.
Referees are human – they get it wrong sometimes and you have to accept it but today there were three occasions where the manager of the teams playing the tournaments went crazy for something really simple like the referee awarding throw-ins against their teams.
There are some coaches out there who ruin it for the likes of you and I.
Watch this clip of Brazilian coach Pedro Santilli losing his temper and punching the referee. Make sure you don’t resort to this kind of behaviour!
