Ray Power
Youth Football Coach, Coach Educator, Author of MAKING THE BALL ROLL and SOCCER TACTICS 2014
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“Forget all your phases of play and technical practices. You first need to light a fire under players.” (Craig Short) ‘Psychology’ is an evocative word. To the layperson, it looks like something that is beyond their comprehension, something that is best left for academics and thesis writers, just like the...
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This is an extraordinary exercise to show fellow coaches and your players the power of mindset and positive thinking. I won't claim it as my own, but will thank Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. Have a member of your team stand in front of...
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How we try to motivate our players is often misunderstood, in particular prior to playing in a game. Most coaches spend years searching for an epic, hair-stand-on-the-back-of-your-neck style speech like Al Pacino’s famous one in Any Given Sunday. These kind of forced speeches however never really live up to expectation...
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I had never really given much thought to football warm-ups. The process I believed was quite simple. After you have sent the goalkeeper with the goalkeeper coach (or with a substitute depending on the level), you set about preparing your players physically for the game. There was the psychological aspect...
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We all have certain ‘anchors’ in life. We all have that particular sound, smell, taste etc. that takes us back to a certain place in our lives. I can still hear the creak in my living room door from when I was a child – a door that been at...