Coaching Philosophy

What's your coaching philosophy? it's one of the first questions you may want to answer at the start of the season, whether this is your first season or your tenth.

Can you sum up - in one sentence - what your goals are for this team, this season?

Examples include:

• Developing skill, sportsmanship and the value of teamwork without sacrificing fun
• Improve skills and have fun
• It doesn't matter what the score of the game is at the end, if you have learned something NEW, then you have WON the game anyway

Spend a minute or two thinking about your goals, and write them down. For inspiration, check out http://www.finesoccer.com/coaching_philosophies.htm

Once you've written it out, share it with your team; both the kids and the families. It may even be the first thing you want to go over at our next topic of discussion: the team meeting.