Footballcoach.co.nz has been developed to help improve football in New Zealand. I intend to create an online space for all the people involved in the world of football in NZ: coaches, managers, volunteers, parents and players, to consult and seek the information they need to improve their specific coaching skills and improve specific skills of football players. I want to improve the level of football in NZ.
Currently I collaborate with other webpages related to football and specific training for football, written in Spanish, with more than 2400 visits a day, 5,700 web page views a day.
The challenge for me is to write quality articles about football that are easy to understand for everyone, regardless the level and prior knowledge of football-specific fitness, sports performance, etc.
Do you find this interesting? Want to learn the secrets of football?
It's your first experience as a coach, you have a group of children who want to play football and you would like to do this well. You want to teach them to play football. As a responsible adult you feel you have the need to work with your group to form a team and explain to them how to move, what to do with the ball, how to attack with the ball, what to do when they don't have it. And also you want to see them having fun, learning to play football as a team.
Congratulations, you're in the right place.
Let me show you where to start through the following articles.
In addition, I encourage you to contact me anytime and consult me or send me your feedback, opinions, and experiences. Have fun, you're moving into a wonderful world, full of great moments, experiences, joy, etc ...
COACHING BLOG
Knowledge that Should be Acquired by Football Coaches
What should a football coach know? On what issues should he work for which need this knowledge? What knowledge must you acquire and develop more to become better? Here we present the categories in which the football coach should seek to acquire knowledge:
10 Coach Skills
How to improve your coaching skills? Do you want to be a better football coach than you currently are? Would you like to know what football coaches do very well? What skills have they developed and use perfectly every day to do their jobs better? A good coach should be: a leader, organized, planner, communicator, dynamic, timely, flexible, adaptive and caring among other things. In another article we explain the...
How To Be A More Effective Leader Solving Conflicts In 8 Steps
Working with people involves the appearance of conflicts. When you train a football team you're interacting with people and in this relationship conflicts may occur. What are the conflicts in sports? Why do they arise? How do you prevent them from appearing? I will explain everything you need to know about conflicts between players and between players and coaching staff, so that when they pop up you'll be more relaxed...
My Game Philosophy, Methodology, and Opinion About my Players in 30 points
What is my ideology of football? How do my teams play football? What is the playing style my players are developing in games? What training methodology am I following? What are my beliefs as a coach? What do I think about my players? Next I will talk about my coaching secrets in three sections: My idea on how to play football, the methodological approach I follow in my trainings and my thoughts on the players...
The Best Football Trials
For different reasons, all coaches see themselves immersed in sessions to assess the level of the players. Regardless of age, club, number of participants, etc.. The fact is that these sessions are personally very difficult for me to do and I'm always afraid to make mistakes when making my judgment. Will I know how to discriminate between good and average players? Will I overlook a talented player? What if I...
Design Football Training Session
I'd like to help you design and organize your training sessions. Show you the way I do it, give you tips and suggestions that you can easily and effectively use. When designing a training session these are the questions I usually answer: How much time do I have? How many players? What level? What do I want to achieve with get my intervention? What content will I apply? What methodology?...
Football Periodization for Kids: A Real Example
I want to help you easily understand the basic aspects of periodization in football. In this article I will answer the following key questions: 1. What is periodisation and what is its use in football training? 2. How do you divide time into periods: months, weeks, terms? 3. Objectives to achieve in each period. 4. In what order will we work on what we have decided to do? 5. When...
My Coaching Philosophy
As person: Authenticity, coherence and optimism. As professional: Gratitude, responsibility, teach by example, achievement learning and passion. As football coach: Excellence, respect, understanding and support, commitment, belief and entertainment.
TACTICAL & TECHNICAL BLOGs
FOOTBALL FITNESS BLOG
Physical Trials In Football
What are the best physical trials in football? Do they serve for anything or are they a waste of time? Why conduct these tests and not others? Is it the same to do tests on Monday than on Thursday? How to organize a session of physical trials to be effective and not a waste of time for the players? What should I prepare before taking the session to the field?...
Definition of Warming Up in 5 Steps
Before starting a match we see football players performing activities on the pitch. What are they doing, what are they doing it for? They are doing warm-up exercises. Should these exercises always be done? Or just before each game? Is it the same thing to do any exercise?
How Make a Planning for Football Training
Planning the football training: Volume and Intensity In this introductory article I will present the master lines and create an overview, from where we can get into more detail about the more complex and specific parts of the process. The sketch of a traditional and very simple model that you can use with junior and youth players. What is the planning of sports training? Planning is to complete the structures...
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