Do american born coaches really know much about the game - compared to European or south american or would they be better coaching baseball
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Keep paying for coaching by guys with accents. Your children will be fineOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post -
Keep paying for coaches that say they played professional in Portugal or Brasil. But, when you google their name their pro experience is no where to be found.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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agree - clearly superior about the game than us - looks at us national team - we are so bad at game coaching and tactics but we can do good drills from the internetOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Strategy and tactics are very similar to hockey and basket ball. Maintain possession while looking for a mismatch by skill or numbers. However British accents make everyone sound smarter. French accents make people sound smug. Southern accents make people sound stupid........so when in doubt, go with the limey.Comment
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^^ Sure, if you are teaching tactical, but that should be coming later. Early on, it's technical, and you'd have to be a player to teach that.Comment
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Name one EPL, Bundesliga, LIGA or Serie A head coach who is American bornComment
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What if they are the children of foreign born, soccer savvy immigrants?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Does Canada count?
Are there any Europeans coaching baseball? Do they ask these questions in Brazil.
Maybe illegal immigration can solve the lack of coaching issue, same as farm workers.Comment
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The thinking of the foreign coaches is mired in the styles they grew up with: Brits: "Cross it, cross it, put it on me 'ead"; Irish: "Get stuck in lad, that's the boy"; Brazilians: "If you can't make it bonito, make it nasty" Portugese "Just make it nasty" Central Americans "Dribble it until you lose it". Once this great mosaic of a country we have here develops its soccer culture we will have the best coaches in the world. Thanks for your contributions, Matey, Paddy, JO-say and HO-say.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
As for playing? The best take I ever heard on players becoming coaches was that for "good" players, the game typically came so easy to them they can't relate to the average player, and can't teach him how to improve. Some experience is important, but being able to communicate is vital.Comment
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Plenty of those types. They say they played in LASA. No record of them. Just a bunch of high school varsity players when they immigrated here. Quite the resumes. Worse than the newly arrived English and Irish in my opinion. You typically find the Portuguese and Brazilians in the smaller clubs. They can't coach the game to save their lives. Clueless.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Outside the goalkeeper position there is nothing technical about soccer that can't be learned in a few weeks. It's literally that simple. Soccer is mostly muscle memory (thousands of hours of repetition) and being intelligent (primarily for situational awareness).Comment
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Wow. We are going to hear the LeBron James theory next. (PS: No accent here.)Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Tell me where I am wrong?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
I admit that it takes years, if not decades to develop top level talent. The feel for the ball takes forever to get right and some people will never truly be instinctive in knowing where to position themselves on the field in all situations. But the technical aspect of soccer is rudimentary and can be taught by just about anyone. There are only so many ways to come in contact with the ball and only so many ways to move around the field. The primary quality of a good trainer/coach is getting the players to buy into what he/she is selling so they put in the effort, not that they have any magical drills up their sleeves.Comment
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Maybe for your (lack of) understanding of the game....Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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