Football Coaching: Principles, Techniques, and Development Report

This report delves into the core principles of football coaching, emphasizing the importance of effective coaching techniques for enhancing players' physical, mental, technical, and strategic skills. It outlines a structured approach to coaching, including analyzing player needs, preparing coaching objectives, conducting sessions with clear communication, and following up on progress. The report also explores athlete development stages, highlighting the progression from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence. It emphasizes the coach's role in providing safe coaching and evaluating player performance. The report concludes by underscoring the significance of coaching in sports and the systematic approach required for effective training and skill development, supported by references to relevant 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
Application of key coaching techniques for planning and delivering of safe coaching session
In every sport like Football, it is very essential to have effective coaching from a well skilled
coach and guide. Using of some techniques for giving coaching for improving the skills of a
person so they will be able to perform all the activities in more effective manner . Similarly in
case of Football, some techniques need to be followed by the coach which needs to be in a
systematic manner are going to be discussed as follows:
Step One: Analyse: Collect as well as interpret all the essential elements need for the sports
while performing in a positive manner. It is necessary to examine the gaps where by giving
coaching to the individual person help in filling the gap. For this, best methods need to be used
by the coach so they will be able to identify the improvement area. By doing so, a person can
easily improve its weak area and gain opportunities in near future related to this.
Step Two: Prepare: Before starting the coaching session, it is essential for setting the coaching
objective, emphasising on one or more behaviours. By preparing everything in a systematic
manner, an individual person will be able to improve its skill related to the sport. Therefore,
proper planning is essential before giving the guidance.
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Step Three: Conduct: During the session given to the candidate for improving the football
related skills it is necessary for asking questions, sharing the views and perception as well as
analysing the requirement of coaching. It is said that coaching is a two way process of
communication which needs to be done in a systematic manner so that the sports related skill of
a person can be improved.
Step Four: Follow up: Last step is to take follow up of each and every step so that the
development can be identified in a positive manner. By doing so a person who takes coaching for
improving their football skills can easily identify the improvement.
With the assistance of above mentioned steps, It is said that a person who is learning or
improving his skills related to a sport football, coach needs to follow some systematic technique
so they can give safe coaching to them. In addition to this, it is also very essential for the coach
to keep an eye on the performance of a person so they can modify their coaching techniques
effectively.
Review and evaluate coach and athlete development
It has been said that after giving proper training to the person related to improving their
football skills, it is essential to review and examine the performance. For this, stages of learning
is quite helpful which help in understanding the overall development of the coach.
Stage1: Unconscious Incompetence
This is the first stage where the learner do not have any kind of skill set yet. Individual do not
understand or see any kind of reason to learn or improve the skill.
Stage 2: Conscious Incompetence
At the time of second stage learner is getting awareness about the skills which are lack in
him and need to improve the skills. This stage is when learner want to learn the skill so that they
can improve their skills and get opportunity.
Stage 3: Conscious Competence
In the third stage learner gain the knowledge but is not yet skilled or mastered in the field.
By doing this the evaluation of current improvement can be done.
Stage 4: Unconscious Competence
At the end in the fourth step, learner become well skilled and mastered in the field where
they will not forget the learned skills. There this stage refers to the end phase where individuals
get improved and developed skill.
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These steps help in examining the improvement of individuals person while taking coaching
for the development of football skill.
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. There is a systematic technique which needs to be used by the coach so
that they can deliver safe coaching to the person.
References
Books and journals
Whittington, J., 2020. Systemic coaching and constellations: The principles, practices and
application for individuals, teams and groups. Kogan Page Publishers.
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.
Pradarelli, J.C., Yule, S., Panda, N., Lowery, K.W., Lagoo, J., Gee, D.W., Ashley, S.W., Waters,
P.M., Gawande, A.A. and Smink, D.S., 2020. Surgeons’ coaching techniques in the
Surgical Coaching for Operative Performance Enhancement (SCOPE) program. Annals
of Surgery.
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.
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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