Coaching is all about engagement. The influence on each individual is life changing for you and each player you connect with. You are able to mold players into individuals fit for society. Being a football coach, I am able to interact with my players on and off the field. I am able to engage with them in the weight room and meeting room. This gives me the opportunity to work with the player development aspect as a whole. Being a new coach, it is very instrumental when you make that effort in building relationships.
The work environment must be one that allows all players to feel good giving into the expectations that have been set. I am a younger coach that the players can better relate to, so they come to me for any advice and assistance. My experiences as a player have helped shaped me into the coach that I am today. It allowed me to see what I found to be the best and worst traits that most coaches carried. The team that I am coaching hadn’t experienced good coaching in the past, so they lacked the “fun” element of the game. Teaching them to believe in theirselves has always been at the forefront of my teaching. It takes a lot of patience because there are numerous players that come from homes where they never had a support system.
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