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Bear

Years ago

Just let them play !

Oh, and most important of all, just let them play!

:)

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Bear

Years ago

Coach without the fear of losing.
Coach with the confidence your players will exude.
Coach to enjoy the experience and learn from your mistakes.
Coach to teach and lead by example.
Coach without unrealistic expectation.
Coach with fairness and be impartial.
Coach with integrity and stay true to yourself.

Listen as well as you hear and never say anything you wouldn't want repeated in public, and you will be just fine...

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Anonymous

Years ago

OP, your fortune to have a highly talented kid comes with the misfortune to mostly have to deal with the career coaches. I have coached VJBL teams for many years and most coaches are wonderful, have the right balance of running the team and giving the players freedom to create and be versatile. It is mostly split on the lines of firsts coaches versus the rest, especially at the bigger clubs. I have seen (and had run ins) with firsts coaches who more or less see the players as the means to the end (the end being to win a championship). They forget that no matter what level, the enjoyment of the players is the primary driver. Many of the parents of firsts players at the bigger clubs forget that too - quite feral in a lot of cases. The kinds of coaches I am describing cannot let the kids play, they feel they must be "doing something" as a coach all the time, because they are worried about the perception of themselves. It comes with the territory unfortunately; if your kid hates it, get him/her to be put into the seconds or go to one of the smaller clubs would be my advice.

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