How Sports Impacts The Lives of Girls and Women Long After Their Playing Days Are Done

Girls Soccer NoosaWGBH focuses media creation and production on Children’s Media and Education, Journalism, History, Arts and Culture, and Science.

Esteban Bustillos from WGBH has recently written an article discussing the lifelong impact of sports on girls and women.  It is an interesting article and definitely worth a read.  Click here to read more.

What is Team Work?

When you’re coaching a team of young football players it’s great to encourage players’ individual skills and abilities but make sure you emphasise that no one player will win the game because winning matches requires effective teamwork!

Key soccer coaching tips

Kids Football NoosaThe first and most important rule to coach your players is that Teams Win Games. These are three simple, but very powerful, words that lie are at the heart of successful youth soccer coaching.

Once each player understands and remembers this, your job as a youth soccer coach will get a whole lot easier.

 

 

Coaching your players to understand this concept will help counteract the media messages and headlines they’re exposed to all the time in magazines, on the internet and on TV implying that individual celebrity players are the winners of a match. Read more