What Makes A Successful High School Soccer Program

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What Makes A Successful High School Soccer
Program
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Develop a philosophy or expectations for each
season
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• Talent level
• Competition
• Age and Maturity level of players
• School philosophy involving playing time, and
  number of players carried on the team.

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• Soccer Coaching Quotes to live by..
• Their football was exceptionally good and they
  played some good football. Andy Roxburgh
• Of the nine red cards we received this season,
  we probably deserved half of them. Arsene
  Wenger

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Can you meet the requirements of development and
success.
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The High School Coach and Club Soccer

• HUGE ADVANTAGES TO YOUR INVOLVEMENT
• Knowledge of players (This is your feeder
  system.)
• Greater cooperation with club coaches.
• Parents and community appreciate the visibility
  of the High School coach within the club program
• Running training sessions and coaching a team
  improves knowledge, methods and confidence.

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• Improving Yourself as A Coach.. An Everlasting
  Process

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• Still young, keep playing
• Take NSCAA and USSF coaching courses
• Attend clinics and symposiums
• Watch sessions, borrow ideas
• Attend MLS and top amateur league games
• Subscribe to Fox World Sports and Goal TV
• Get Involved with the ODP programs
• Listen to feed back from players
• Have a coach you respect, evaluate your training
  sessions.

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• More Quotes
• Too many players were trying to score or create
  a goal.
• Gerard Houllier
• We ended up playing football, and thats not our
  style.
• Alex MacDonald

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Team Rules and School Rules

• Eligibility requirements
• Be consistent on rules and infractions during
  practice
• Knowledge of difficulties at home or in school
  (Demographic Profile)
• Missing practice for all the right reasons and
  advantages overlooked by coaches and players
• Transportation issues

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• Quotes to remember ...
• Okay we lost but good things can come from it
  negative and positive.
• Glen Hoddle
• A lot of hard work went into this defeat.
• Malcolm Allison
• Michael Owen is a good scorer not a natural
  born one, not yet, that takes time.
• Glen Hoddle

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Empowerment Within Your Team
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• Appointing a Captain
• Role of captain
• Involvement of the players in decision making
• Scheduling
• Practices
• Line up suggestions
• Team problems

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• Pause before you speak to reporters..
• We probably got on better with the likes of
  Holland, Norway, Belgium, and Sweden some of
  whom are not even European.
• Jack Charlton
• Home advantage gives you an advantage.
• Bobby Robson

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Pre Season Training

• Schedule for everyday, from opening day of pre
  season to final game. Schedule provided two to
  three months before season to players and
  parents.
• How many sessions per day
• Fitness test
• Providing breaks from training - Team Building
• Use of volunteer coaches and ex players- clearance

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• Goal Keeping coach
• Balancing the components of soccer into your pre
  season training.
• Example of balancing components
• Week One
• technique tactics fitness psychological
• 50 20 20
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• Week Two
• technique tactics fitness psychological
• 40 30 20
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• Week Three
• technique tactics fitness psychological
• 20 50 10 20

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• Economical training
• Value of scrimmages
• Choose a system appropriate for your players.

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• Everybody plays the fool
• We had enough chances to win this game. In fact
  we did win.
• Alex Smith
• I dont read everything I read in the press.
• Dave Jones

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Risk Management

• Risk Management
• Players cleared to train (physical, insurance)
• Sufficient personnel for supervision of practices
  and matches
• Medical assistance for practice and matches
• Facilities safe for practice and matches
• Proper equipment

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Does your web site provide personal information
about your players?Awareness of Sexual
Harassment Laws Players Moving
EquipmentWater breaks and shortened training
sessions
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Game Analysis Training GameWhat do I work on in
Practices?The Use of Video
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• Did he really say that?
• Hagi is a brilliant player but were not going
  to get psychedelic over him.
• Andy Roxburgh
• Cole should be scoring from that distance but
  Im not going to single him out.
• Alex Ferguson
• I think one or two of our legs got a bit leg
  weary.
• Mick McCarthy
• When you are up 4-0, you should never lose
• 7-1. Lawrie McMenemy

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• Useful Information
• Generate publicity
• Create or make aware of tradition.
• Play as many games at night as possible.
• Make college coaches aware of your players and
  your program.
• Make the home games events.
• Make your schedule challenging.
• Ignore the parents and the critics.

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• Hes captain of the Rangers, and thats one of
  the reasons hes captain
• Walter Smith
• They had a dozen corners, maybe 12 Im
  guessing.
• Craig Brown
• What I said to him at half time is unprintable
  on the radio.
• Gerry Francis
• We need goals when the score line is 0-0.
• Sven Goran Ericksson

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