Principles of Coaching: A Football Session Plan and Analysis

This report delves into the core principles of football coaching, emphasizing the coach's crucial role in developing athletes' physical, mental, and strategic skills. It highlights the importance of the coach-athlete relationship and its impact on skill development. The main body presents a detailed one-hour session plan, outlining warm-up activities, drills, and cool-down exercises, along with coaching considerations and style. The plan incorporates elements like jogging, stretching, and specific football drills, alongside energizers to maintain player engagement. The report concludes by reiterating the significance of coaching in sports and its contribution to fair play and skill enhancement, supported by relevant references from sports coaching literature.

Coaching Principles

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
One hour session plan for Football.............................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Sports coaching can be defined as the art of inflating the physical, mental, technical and
strategic skills of players of a particular game or athletes (Renshaw and et. al. , 2019). The
importance of coach within the sports industry is extensive. This can be said on the basis of the
premise that almost each and every sports person or athlete in the modern era is guided and
trained by an individual coach. Such types of coaches provide the athletes or sports persons with
a lucrative opportunity to enhance their agility and their thinking abilities in an effective manner.
This allows them to ace the sport or any sporting event. This lays down the foundation to
development of strong athlete coach relationship. It acts as a key force in facilitating the
development of physical as well as psycho social skills within the personality of the athletes
(Ives and et. al., 2019). This provides assistance to the sports persons playing any sport to
become paramount in relation to their sports skills and knowledge. The current project is based
upon the coaching principles applied within the sport of Football.
MAIN BODY
In association football, the duties of any coach vary in accordance with the scale on
which they are coaching along with the country in which coaching is being given. Within youth
football, the main intent of a coach is to provide assistance to players in developing their
technical skills while focussing upon the fair play of that sport (Otte, Millar and Hüttermann,
2019). With the passage of time, coaching has emerged to be a significant aspect which shapes
the athletic personality of a sports person. The report consists of a one hour session plan for
football prepared by a coach for football team member / members.
One hour session plan for Football
Date : Attendance : Equipment needed :
Football training cones – This is
first training equipment and it
used for practising training drills.
Football Free kick or coaching
mannequin – This is an
important coaching aid and this is
Venue :
Duration :
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used for practising free kicks.
Football training Bibs – It is
necessary to wear this while
taking training.
Magnetic football tactics – This
is an easy way for coaches to plot
the wining strategies and plans.
Introduction:
Warm up activities : Drills and Games :
This will include the following
10 minutes jogging – You have to
jog for at least 10 minutes before
practising the game
Squat – This means standing with
your feet by widening the hip area .
The toes have to be tilted and
shoulders will be relaxed. You have
to keep back straight and bend the
knees down. You have to put weight
on heels and not on toes.
Linear knee raise – This includes
standing tall with the feet hip width
apart and arm resting at the sides.
Walking lung with rotation – This
is done by taking feet hip width
apart and extending arms in front of
you. After that, step forward with
one foot into a lung and bending
both knees.
Inchworm – you have to keep the
Cool down activities :
 Walk on the spot, moving
arms in a gentle swinging
motion.
 Touch shoulders with
hands, then reach up over
head. Repeat five times.
 Skip slowly on the spot.
 Skip side to side.
 Jump or hop on the spot.
Coaching Tips/
Questions /
Challenges :
Class management / energisers :
These are quick, short and fun
exercise that is used in different
ways within sports practise.
This coach is providing brain
activities within training as
energisers. An example is given
below -
Man goes into a restaurant and
asks for a glass of water. Another
man puts up gun on this man. The
man says thank you very much,
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feet closer and together. Legs must
be straight and stretched outwards.
Walk your hands forward on the
floor and press walk your feet
forward until they reach your hands.
he no longer needs the water and
walks out.
Answer: The man had hiccups!
Review / Evaluation :
Justification for the
design of the session,
elements to consider :
Type of warm up -
Coaching Practice -
Progressions and
Challenges -
Management /
Coaching Style -
The training is effective as there are
proper warm up sessions and
running practices that increases
efficiency of playing football.
In football, the warm up begins
from 10 minutes of running and this
increases muscle temperature. There
is easy jogging and pace running so
that body gets charged.
The smash mouth coaching practise
is used while training. These
coaches have tremendous block by
an offensive lineman and then
watching the running back again of
the opposition.
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CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it can be said that coaching is a vital part of every
sports or athletic activity. In addition to this, it is identified that coach is a person who is engaged
in giving instructions, directions and training to an individual sports person or a sports team so as
to build their sports skills and knowledge. This helps the sports person or team to carry out fair
play at the time of game.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Renshaw, I. and et. al., 2019. The constraints-led approach: Principles for sports coaching and
practice design. Routledge.
Otte, F. W., Millar, S. K. and Hüttermann, S., 2019. Skill training periodisation in applied sports
coaching-An introduction of the conceptual ‘PoST’framework for skill
development. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 1, p.61.
Ives, B. A. and et. al., 2019. Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and
non-work identities in community sports coaching. Sport, Education and Society, pp.1-
17.
Farley, O. R., Spencer, K. and Baudinet, L., 2019. Virtual reality in sports coaching, skill
acquisition and application to surfing: A review.
Kjær, J. B., 2019. The Professionalization of Sports Coaching: A case study of a graduate soccer
coaching education program. Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Education, 24, pp.50-62.
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