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Know the subject. It is self evident that to coach well one needs to know the game of soccer from the technical and tactical stand point. Paradoxically one of the advantages of soccer is also a disadvantage.
Soccer has a marvellous spectator appeal, it is a fast moving game.
The laws are minimal and uncomplicated and the purpose of the game is easy to grasp. Everybody has an opinion on whether we should play with or without wingers, whether we should play this system or that.
Discussions are riddled with clichés and half truths and team selection is never wrong. The team which the spectator selects never plays and therefore never loses, it never wins either.
It is against that background and the influence which opinions may have on players and coaches alike that coaches must keep a steady gaze and never lose sight of the basic truths and those truths are embodied in the principles and key factors of technical performance. Know how people learn; Know the factors in coaching purpose.
Objectives — there may be several. These can be divided roughly into two sectors. Play with the ball e.g. passing dribbling crossing the ball; Play without the ball e.g combining movements, supporting overlap runs, cross over lays and diagonal runs.
A coach cannot teach all these factors at once so it is necessary to determine a priority order and logical sequence of coaching within the overall objective.
One cannot coach effectively several different facts of the game at one time .
Out of any two factors one will always take logical precedence over the other. If a coach cuts two factors out of logical sequence learning becomes more difficult because it makes less sense, also it usually assumes knowledge of techniques not yet acquired if one persists in wrong time. Effective learning will not take place, careful thought therefore must be given to planning priorities and logical sequence.
I would like to congratulate the Coach of the Year Norman Mapeza. I think he really deserved this award and I extend my congratulations to all the eleven soccer stars and Referee of the Year. I also thank the sponsors Castle Breweries for making this happen.
Please can you raise the awards prize money so as to create that spirited display within players in the league.
Do you know?
The number of goals scored in the World Cup from 1930- 2010 by leading scores of the golden boot Awards were 169. The highest goals were scored by Fontaine of France in the 1958 World Cup which were thirteen goals, the second highest goals were scored by Kocsis of Hungary in the 1954 World Cup which were eleven goals.
Third highest goals of nine each are shared between. 1950 World Cup, Ademir- Brazil; 1966 World Eusebio –Portugal; 1970 World Cup – Muller West Germany
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