So you want to become a youth soccer coach / youth football coach do you? You’ve seen other people do it, you’ve been following soccer / football for years and you think you would make a good football coach / soccer coach. You may want to become a football coach/ soccer coach to give back to the community. You may be doing it because you love working with young people. You may be doing it because you have a child you want to coach, or it may just be something you saw on TV and thought it would be nice to do. The more great coaches we can help in to football the better, as these young people need you.

Normally when you start in youth soccer / youth football you have to work a lot of things out for yourself or learn by trial and error. No matter how many courses you go on or how many people you speak to it can’t quite prepare you for the reality of youth soccer / youth football. The experience when you first become a youth soccer coach / youth football coach can be quite overwhelming as there is so much to do. So many people go in to football coaching / soccer coaching blind or with rose tinted glasses on and when they see the realities for themselves it can scare them off.

Being a youth soccer coach / youth football coach is one of the most amazing things you can do with your life and it can provide you with a lifetime worth of happy memories. If you are about to become a soccer coach / football coach you will have the enthusiasm and the big ideas that every new coach has and needs to have to make an impact in the youth soccer / youth football coaching world. Being a new soccer coach / football coach is an exciting time. Nothing beats your first football training / soccer training session and you will always remember your first game regardless of what the score is and where it is played. That first goal, that first win, that first season, there is nothing like it. The positives in youth football coaching / soccer coaching outweigh the negatives and armed with the right information and the right enthusiasm you will be able to handle those negatives with ease.

This site is for every football coach / soccer coach regardless of what stage you are at in your career or what stage you are at with your team. Whether your team hasn’t been formed yet or if you have been football coaching / soccer coaching for more years than you care to remember.

So enjoy the site – we hope you find it useful and informative and a good resource of football coaching / soccer coaching information.

Extracts taken from ‘A guide to surviving youth football’ by Adam Sibley. Visit www.theyouthfootballguide.com for more information.