We all need to learn on coaching kids.
This is an extract from a Ex-Australian Premiership rugby League coach on coaching kids in Australia. It is well worth a read.
We need to teach kids to be better footballers by playing footy, not by following a script. Our NRL ranks are running low on vision players because in the juniors, they are rarely being taught to look up, count numbers for an overlap and play what they see. More often I have witnessed a team coached to give the ball to the biggest and fastest players at every opportunity, to run over smaller players or around slower players, rather than use the collective skill set of the team to craft a try or a line break.
Junior rugby league coaches are presented with the unique opportunity to teach young men so many things about life. Sacrifice, accountability, teamwork, sportsmanship, mateship and hard work are characteristics of the greatest value and should always supersede a misguided, self indulged coach's ambitions of winning at all cost.
Some parents are just as guilty and need to look past their own ambition, especially with kids at such young ages. They need to understand what is best for their young boy and stand up for them if they feel the coach is in it for the wrong reasons. Only a small percentage of junior players make it to the big league but all need to be educated in life values. My eyes have been opened and I hope I can open someone else's.
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