Skill Acquisition Coaching Guidelines

Fun

Games with goals on each end

Points scoring system

Individual functional skill training

Playing games

Scoring goals

Providing assists

Preventing goals

Playing well as a team and winning

Positive team culture and spirit

Poor team culture and spirit

Negative comments from parents

Negative comments from coaches

Criticising an individual player in a team

Ball possession without an end product

Games with exaggerated numerical majority

Make the practical sessions attractive, inspiring and challenging for your players:

Use real GOALS - Goal of football: end product is to score GOALS (and prevent goals

Always try to find a good balance between challenge and security. Ensure that you set challenges to your players that are achievable with effort!

Scoring goals

Providing assists

Scoring as a team

Stopping opposition from scoring

Level	Overall Objective	FUNctional Activity	Game (Recognition)	Mini-Games (Application)
NOVICE COACHES	Organise your players to 'play more games', seek assistance from a mentor coach.	Copy a FUNctional Activity example from the manual to suit your playing group.	Copy a Game from the manual to include all players.	Copy a Mini-Game from the manual to include all players, praise and encourage effort.
DEVELOPING COACHES	Organise your players to 'play more games' with a focus on attacking or defending in each session, seek assistance from mentor.	Modify a FUNctional Activity example from the manual to suit your playing group.	Modify a Game from the manual to suit your group.	Modify a Mini-Game from the manual to suit your group, provide basic feedback.
EXPERIENCED COACHES	Organise your players to 'play more games' with an enhanced focus on attacking or defending in each session, support less experienced coaches.	Create a FUNctional Activity from your experience to suit your playing group.	Create a Game from your experience to suit your group.	Create Mini-Games from your experience to suit your group, provide short, quality feedback.

Level	Overall Objective	FUNctional Activity	Game (Recognition)	Mini-Games (Application)
NOVICE COACHES	Organise your players to ‘play more games’, seek assistance from a mentor coach.	Copy a Free Game from the manual to include all players, praise and encourage effort.	Set an ‘individual’ challenge for each player, such as, aim to reach three more juggles.	Not Applicable
DEVELOPING COACHES	Organise your players to ‘play more games’ with a focus on attacking or defending in each session, seek assistance from mentor.	Modify a Free Game from the manual to suit your group, observe progress of players.	Set an ‘individual’ challenge for each player and monitor their progress pre-training.	Recommended
EXPERIENCED COACHES	Organise your players to ‘play more games’ with an enhanced focus on attacking or defending in each session, support less experienced coaches.	Create Free Game from your experience to suit players, measure progress of players.	Create a ‘home-skill’ program to master the core skills.	Break down core skills in attack and defence.