Coaching Youth Sports: How It Should Be Done.

[HoreTore]

If you're a kid and thinks that organized training is what will make you a prop footballer, here's a newsflash: you'll stink.

The only way to get really good, is to eat, sleep and breathe football. And the only way to do that, is if you actually enjoy it. Being pressured by some coach? Hah! If that's necessary, you've already failed.

When I was younger(until my legs got crippled from too much running, skiing and skating), I played football for some 3-5 hours per day on a weekday, and usually half the weekend. Usually with a mate or two, but often alone, practicing either shooting, long passes(I'm a pupil of the Drillo style of football) or technique.

This guy has lost his mind, he won't be able to coach a team to anything but failure. He's not just insane, he's also an extremely bad coach, on any level.

EDIT: for proof of this, take a look at the best footballers today. Take a look at their background, and take a look at how they became great. I can assure you that none of them were exposed to failures like this guy. Take Ronaldo, for example, a poor kid from a poor neighborhood, who spent all his spare time as a kid playing(with emphasis on play) football. Or Arjen Robben, who still plays football the same way he played as a kid in the playground. Or the dozens of Brazilians who grew up playing football in the streets. That's the way you get good. In football, pressure makes coal, not diamonds.