coaching Archives - Team Grassroots

Why setting boundaries helps both player and coach

GRF Admin 21/02/2019

Creag Lawrence, FA PE coordinator, believes that setting boundaries and using consequences can benefit both coach and player. In the past, detentions, ‘laps’ or being shouted at was the extent of ‘behaviour management’ strategy used by teachers at school – or adults…

Be Honest, have you ever……

GRF Admin 11/02/2019

Using televised games to help players learn

GRF Admin 24/01/2019

Laura Seth, FA performance analysis education lead, looks at learning opportunities for young players away from training. We now live and interact in a digital world where live football – both at home and abroad – as well as a whole host…

Are the Professional clubs getting scouting wrong with kids?

GRF Admin 28/11/2018

“Anyone who tells you they can spot a professional player at five years old is basically lying,” says talent ID manager Nick Levett, an expert in the eight to 11-year-old age group and one of several FA appointments encouraging clubs to improve…

Alex gave me a look I will never ever forget, in fact it gave me goosebumps.

GRF Admin 27/11/2018

A real moment of grassroots magic happened at the weekend that restored my faith in the sport, a child I’ve coached for about a year who came from a team who said he “wasn’t good enough” In all the games he’s ever…

A very honest message from a parent coach, if only I had asked first….

GRF Admin 22/11/2018

So my boy finally reached the magical age of 7 last spring and all the football training, school clubs could now pay off and I could get him on a team. It turned out the local FA affiliated club were looking for…

Then I realised how much these kids had changed my life – Diary of a Grassroots Coach

GRF Admin 14/11/2018

This weekend I was so lucky, so lucky in fact not only did I get to meet my heroes. I also got to watch them play!!!! Because you see I wasn’t watching Chelsea or Man Utd, not even Barcelona….. I watched them…

Message from an Unknown Coach – Today I heard a comment made about me behind my back, I started to turn around and look but decided better of it, I know I make mistakes…..

GRF Admin 12/11/2018

Diary of a Grassroots Coach – I ask myself is all of this worth it?

GRF Admin 09/11/2018

I’ve just sat down to dinner with the family. My phone is pinging messages constantly, and although I know I shouldn’t, I cannot help but sneak a peak. My messages are almost all concerning the football team I volunteer to coach. The…

The Expectations Vs The Reality of Grassroots Football

GRF Admin 09/11/2018

Over the years I have had the privilege of meeting some fantastic people through coaching here in the UK. I’m not talking solely about coaches, I’m talking about good honest people in and around the game who are players, parents, referees, club…

FROM A COACH TO THEIR CHILD.

GRF Admin 01/11/2018

Dear son / daughter, I am sorry that you have to share me, That my time isn’t focused on you, I am sorry you are hanging around after, Still waiting when the matches are through. I know everyone else has gone home…