How to Coach

Coaching is simple, it may not look simple or feel simple, but when broken down into its most fundamental elements it is simple.

In order for good coaches to coach effectively they must:

Know about football: how it works, why it works and the laws that govern it.
Understand the learning process: how to communicate, how people process and retain information and what makes people want to learn.
Know how to break down each topic into their significant key factors, so that they can be pulled apart and dissected during games and sessions to assess what is going well and what is going wrong.
Know yourself: accept weaknesses and overcome them, realise and utilise strengths, constantly learn, fairly criticise and personally appraise.

All of these factors can be developed if the coach is willing to or has already:

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