Coaching Youth Football: Old Coach's Manual For New Coaches

Whether you are coaching Pop Warner Football, Youth Football or Club Football, this manual will help you to learn the basics of coaching young athletes. This manual deals with the approach to handling these players, scheduling practices, and teaching techniques and drills suited to football players from the ages of eight to 13 years old. The overall intent of this manual is to show you a proven approach to coaching young athletes in a straightforward and simple fashion and outline the methods used successfully by me and other coaches on the youth football level. My teams enjoyed practicing (well, most of the time) and playing the games and were able to achieve a better-than-average winning percentage. You will be better prepared to deal with both the winning and losing after reading this manual. "WINNING IS NOT EVERYTHING"! You've probably heard that before if you've ever coached any youngsters. Well, it's absolutely true, but winning can sure be fun. You can reach a balance between playing to win and teaching proper football techniques to young kids and having a great time doing it. Don't ever defend trying to win. However, if you're abusive to your players in your effort to win, then you shouldn't be involved with youth football. Remember, football is a game whose main goal is competition and winning. Make It Fun!

Author: Biagio Joe Riina

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: May 05, 2017

Number of Pages: 174 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1542973724

ISBN-13: 9781542973724