Team Development

WHAT DO YOU DO AS A COACH  TO MOVE YOUR TEAM THROUGH THE STAGES OF TEAM DEVELOPMENT

Every training process, which is conquered as a hindrance of some sort, will open up new possibilities. The ability of a soccer player to adapt to various training processes, must strive towards triumph which is seen in the ability to achieve something completely new. The spending of self power and energy for something more (than the awards) is compensated by a better tomorrow, happiness after a wave of sadness and charitable exhaustion. The world of soccer is like a mill wheel which is constantly grinding our successes and failures. The causality between the coach and the soccer player is in the acknowledging of the knowledge of one from the other.

• Beotism of any form is not allowed. How fast the energy will be transferred depends on the skillfulness of the coach and the adaptability of the talent to accept.

• The process of teaming up encompasses a large number of psycho-sociological factors and is realized during the course of training, perfecting and throughout soccer competitions.

• The coaches perform the process of teaming up alone to a large extent, but it is desirable that they obtain help, at least occasionally, from experts from other scientific fields, especially psychology.

That’s why the coach is expected to, and should, posses basic knowledge and skillfulness in this and other science disciplines. In order for a high level of teaming up to be achieved, it is important that there exists collectivism in the group. Every group of soccer players in the psychological sense presents a working group, but it might not at the same time be a team. A soccer team is much more. That is why, there is a need for a high level of motivation and an agile and well organized environment. For a successful organization, referring and managing of the team, there must be a hierarchy in the team, whose aim is to define roles, that is duties.

The coach is faced with difficult task of analyzing the soccer player, for there are certain elements that go with him: the mentality, the environment from which the soccer player has risen, the financial stimulation, the environment in which the soccer player trains and works.

Contemporary soccer, to the greatest extent, forcing the contemporary coach to follow the course of the innovations and the revolutionary changes. In every profession there are moments of weakness and disinterest. The attaining of common goals is achieved by learning from each other. Courage is to believe in oneself in order to be able to easily believe in others. A coach who does not wish to rise, to influence oneself and others, does not know the way to achieve success.

To the clearest pictures, basic elements for team development are:

• Team up process

• Psycho-physic elements of the players

• Coach skills and knowledge

• Plan and program for season or tournaments

• Psycho-physic and technical-tactical program through season