NSCAA
Level 2 Diploma
Course
Welcome (back) to the NSCAA!
Learn (Education)
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Diploma courses offered for coaches at every level of the game
Participate (Events)
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Annual Convention
International trips
Showcase tournaments
Belong (Membership)
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Join the largest soccer coaches’ organization in the world
Enjoy our member benefits!
Quick Facts
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Established in 1941
Largest soccer coaches’ organization in the world
7,000+ coaches participate in our education courses annually
10,000+ coaches and players honored in our Awards program
The NSCAA Annual Convention is the world’s largest annual
gathering of soccer coaches
Membership Benefits
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Soccer Journal delivered 7 times each year (also available online
through myNSCAA)
Online Resource Library
Professional liability insurance (up to $1 million)
Health insurance plans
Access to My NSCAA
Discounts on products and services
Eligibility for Awards and Rankings
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Regular notifications on upcoming courses, events, and offers,
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events,
and offers
Coaching
Philosophy
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Why do you coach?
Proper goals!
Caring about your
players is essential!
What is your
philosophy?
Do your actions match
your philosophy?
Philosophy?!?!
No one told me I’d
need a philosophy!
They just said if my
child wanted to play
the team would need a
coach.
Isn’t that extortion??
How do I get a philosophy?
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Beliefs
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Motivations
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Experiences (including role models)
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Expectations of others
How important is winning? J
Shoe
Children or Adults
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Limited capacity for
processing info
Fragile self-concept
Significant others have
great impact
Desire adult approval
Cannot separate effort
and ability
Children or Adults
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Intrinsically motivated
Need diversity in
movement activities
Desire social
acceptance
Process oriented
Children or Adults
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More efficient processing
system
Established self-concept
More secure with
relationships
Able to differentiate effort
and ability
Children or Adults
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Develop a movement
specialty
Desire social
acceptance
More product oriented
Why do
they play?
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To learn and improve
To have fun
To be with friends
The competition
To get fit
To show competence
Why do they
stop playing?
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They fail to learn
Not fun
Not with their friends
It’s too structured
Too little movement
(boring)
Always failing
Out of the mouths of babes…
“The reason they can
play that good is their
parents aren’t yelling
at them from the
sidelines.”
The Game is
the Teacher
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Meet the demands of
game, not the coach
Learn from play, not
drills; teaching done
within active, fun
exercises and games
Movement is necessary
to acquire skill
Coach’s
best role:
facilitator
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Set conditions and environment for learning
Instill more “street soccer” inside of the structures
of today’s youth sports culture
FUN!!!
Making it Fun!
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Play, do not work soccer
Feedback from players
Feelings are important
If the coach is
ENTHUSIASTIC, players
more likely to love the game
SUCCESS!
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Appropriate training
space
Correct numbers
Appropriate game space
Size of the ball
Helping your session!
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Free movement
Limit lines
Observe, limit continuous
talk
Train shape and principles
of play, not positions
End corrections on a
positive note
Organizing a Training Session
Equipment
- balls,
goals, cones, vests,
-  shin guards, med kit
-  ice, water
Length
- equal to the game
- always end on time
Variety
-Change activities
Organizing a Training Session
Make transitions easy
-Avoid taking time to set up
new activities
-Capture their attention
Simple to Complex
-Individual activities
-Play “against” themselves
Prepare for the unexpected!
“Honest to goodness....in the middle of the
U-9 game a boy asked me if he could go in
his jacuzzi when he got home or did he
need a shower? This question was never
discussed at any NSCAA Residential
course and I felt unprepared. The NSCAA
let me down.” J
How about this?
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Play 3v3
Organize teams of 6
Each coach coaches his or her own team
This means if you have 100 U-6 players,
you must have at least 16 coaches
What if???
What if you could...
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Have one head coach for all 100!
All you need in addition is 16 parents who
stay at the training time
Have the one head coach lead a 30 minute
clinic for the 100, using the parents as
assistants
Next, send 2 teams, each with a parent to a
field and let them play a 3v3 gameplay
What does this accomplish?
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It puts the burden of organizing a session
onto one person
It’s an easy way to introduce at least 16
others how to run a training session
Instead of mandating coaching clinics,
participating in this format offers the
parents numerous one hour clinics
Your Next Steps
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Take another NSCAA diploma course
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Access the Online Resource Library and receive hundreds of
coaching articles, practices sessions, tips and more!
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Purchase DVDs and books to help increase coaching knowledge
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Attend the 2013 Convention in Indianapolis, IN January 16-20
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Visit NSCAA.com/education continually for more information
Want to host your own course?
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Contact your NSCAA State Director
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Secure a facility with a field and classroom
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Promote your course with help from the NSCAA
Share your experience
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Tweet, Facebook, or blog about your experience
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•  @NSCAA
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Impact your community by hosting a course
Tell others about the NSCAA and spread the word!
NSCAA Level 2 Diploma
Thank You!