This blog is going to take a bit of a turn, I’m going to be writing less formal ‘articles’ in favour or shorter blogs. I want to truly document what’s going on with my passions, football and fitness. Plus documenting the other aspects of my life. Essentially I’m going to blog instead of vlog due to the easy of being able to write instead of edit and well, I’m too scared to be on camera. Here I will reveal the good and the bad, my success and mistakes. You’re welcome to follow the journey.
Anyway, now you know how this is going to work, lets get into it.
So last nights training session was so much more enjoyable. Last week I was basically a moody arsehole. Reflecting back on that session, it wasn’t a good look and I wasn’t being a good role model. So this week I wrote down some personal cues. They went something like this “Remember too; deflect behaviour with humour, stay calm, use the silence method, a count down, use clear instructions.” All these are very simple techniques but I had to remind myself. The fact that I turned up confident with my ‘control techniques’ meant I turned up with more enthusiasm and the consequence was a excited bunch of kids, ready to have fun.
As good as the session was, sadly, I wasn’t perfect. We have an issue with our goalkeeper. He wants to play on the pitch. Which isn’t the problem, we want our boys to want to learn the game. Come the next game and subsequent training session he wasn’t there and now threatening to leave our team. His body language in training is one of disinterest. If he wasn’t a child, I’d say his attitude is shit. But to be honest, he looks sad playing football.
Initially I read the situation and concluded he wasn’t putting in the effort. I tried to talk to him about how best to go about talking to us coaches and what effort is required to change position. Instead I should have asked him what’s up, if he’s okay, is there anything going on in his life. I should have asked him about his school life or home life. But I got it wrong. This is the art of coaching and man management. Hopefully next week provides the opportunity to put things right, but since I got it wrong, it’s time to rebuild a solid relationship with him.
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