- Aug 23, 2006
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So last summer I sat there watching the glorious Andrea Pirlo making a mockery of England in the Euro's and realised that rather than just moaning about what I thought was wrong with our game, I should actually try and do something about it, regardless of how big or small a difference could be made. I got my FA Level 1 badge years ago but University, alcohol, 9-5 humdrum had got in the way of me acting on it, so I made a call and got myself to a local club to become a youth football coach. Time to walk the walk a little rather than the enjoyable but ultimately pointless posting on SC match rating and tactical autopsy threads, ranting at Alan Shearer's say what you see post match analysis and moving pint glasses around pub tables like Jose Mourinho on his tactics board.
It all seems rather grand when you start, you have all these ideas floating around your head fully convinced you know it all about football, that coaching the game you have watched for years will be a walk in the park - until all this gets completely trashed within minutes of your first session, as half your U7s need the toilet and the rest of them need their shoelaces tied.
So is anyone on here with me on the coaching bandwagon? Any coaches or anyone who always says 'I'll do it one day...' but never get round to it? It would be good to have a running thread on the matter, it is genuinely the best thing I have done for years, hard work but thrillingly enjoyable and I'm now in the middle of my Level 2 qualification, and booked onto the Youth Module Level 1, and also a beginners course in Futsal.
Be good to have a thread with shared knowledge and experiences, so using a piece of terminology I despair of hearing on youth football pitches every Sunday, 'get stuck in fellas'.
It all seems rather grand when you start, you have all these ideas floating around your head fully convinced you know it all about football, that coaching the game you have watched for years will be a walk in the park - until all this gets completely trashed within minutes of your first session, as half your U7s need the toilet and the rest of them need their shoelaces tied.
So is anyone on here with me on the coaching bandwagon? Any coaches or anyone who always says 'I'll do it one day...' but never get round to it? It would be good to have a running thread on the matter, it is genuinely the best thing I have done for years, hard work but thrillingly enjoyable and I'm now in the middle of my Level 2 qualification, and booked onto the Youth Module Level 1, and also a beginners course in Futsal.
Be good to have a thread with shared knowledge and experiences, so using a piece of terminology I despair of hearing on youth football pitches every Sunday, 'get stuck in fellas'.