Month: March 2014

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Irish Grassroots Football Silent Sideline

Silent Sideline & Don’t x the line….Respect the game!

The weekend is finally here, so that means it’s Silent Sideline Weekend. Last year I tried to organise a Silent Sideline and got laughed at. That didn’t stop me!  This year after two months of non stop Silent Sideline PR, the weekend has finally arrived. With over 100+ clubs, thousand teams and 10,000+ players getting involved, this will be the biggest Silent Sideline ever organised in a single country (please don’t rain). Not forgetting the many teams from UK, Canada, Greece, Portugal, South Africa and even Brazil that are taking part. The way we coach in kids sport is changing….. Join the party!!

How is it going to work?

This weekend, make sure all the noise comes from the kids. Please chill out and watch them play. How you behave at seniors mens football match and how your behave at a kids football game should not even come close. Too many adults see it as the same thing. When I played football, we didn’t have all the adults attending games. We would be lucky to have even one. Over the last ten year more and more adults are arriving at kids sports games without a notion on how to behave. Adults don’t know what’s it’s like to play a game with 40+ people screaming their views of the game at you. I think if we did, we wouldn’t be behaving in such a barbaric and foolish way. Ultimately this weekend is about education the adults that it’s time to shut up and let the kids play.

“It was extraordinary,” “I went to about half-a-dozen games across the weekend and the best way I can describe the atmosphere was to say it was like going to a school play. The only voices you heard were children’s and the only contribution from adults was the odd round of enthusiastic clapping. It was completely unlike what normally goes on in our parks at the weekend.” Neil Yates The Lancashire FA’S County Welfare Officer after their recent Silent Sideline Weekend.

Things to do:

  1. The first thing you need to do as a club taking part is inform the opposition and make they are aware of what this weekend it about.
  2. For more information direct them to the blog.
  3. Next up, is your own members, inform before Saturday and give them as much info as possible.
  4. Try and rope the pitches or put down restriction lines. This will help keep the adults away from the playing area.
  5. Create an atmosphere. Selling lollies is a fun way to keep people silent.
  6. Most important make sure everyone is staying silent and having fun.

A few year back I went to the FCB Academy to watch Barca’s under 8s play. The kids played without any sound coming for the parents watching. The parents who attending training were told to watch from a distance and not instructs or even comment on how their kids were doing. Each parents is told to remain silent and observe. If they breached this rule their child could be evicted from the club. Amazingly the coaches also gave minimal instruction during the match and they would never direct whilst the player was in possession of the ball. FC Barcelona’s message is Play, Try, Grow and Improve.

Former Manchester United coach Rene Meulensteen, recently stated “that footballers cannot learn how to make their own decisions if they are used to receiving instruction from the touchline”

Without doubt the vast majority of parents mean well and want their children to be happy and successful. They are willing to sacrifice their time, energy and financial resources taxiing their kids to and from training, paying for additional training, volunteering for team and club functions and spending countless hours on the sidelines at tournaments and games. Unfortunately, far too many parents do not know exactly what they should and shouldn’t be doing to be the most helpful, they don;t know how to behave. Despite having positive intentions and their child’s best interests at heart, these parents say and do things before, during and after games that distract the child from focusing on the actual game, increase his/her anxiety level and, as a consequence, sabotage his/her overall level of play. Many kids eventually leave sport until adult life, due to this.

Don’t x The Line:

This weekend also see the 10 year anniversary of Don’t x (cross) the line. Running since 2003 in the UK and 2009 in Ireland

The five aims of the campaign are:

  1. To eradicate aggressive and abusive behaviour from players and spectators.
  2. To promote zero tolerance of defamatory comments or language, be it racial or discriminatory, towards referees, fellow players and other supporters.
  3. To promote an environment for sportsmanship and fair play in underage football.
  4. To provide education to adults and young people on the importance of respect and tolerance in football.
  5. To encourage safe participation for players and spectators.

This weekend Referee’s in the LOI and English Leagues will be wearing the Respect T-shirts during the warm ups. The campaign is being supported by the PFA, The FA and FAI. @DXTL @PFA.

Mal Lee the founder of DXTL spoke to TCD recently:

“I was involved in grassroots football for well over 20 years; throughout those years I have witnessed first hand aggression, verbal abuse, racist comments, bullying, and now the smoking of illegal drugs on the touchlines of some Junior Leagues. Not just on Merseyside, but leagues throughout the Country, I have witnessed children crying because their parents are involved in fighting with the opponent parents, referees abandoning games and walking away from them, never to return to the game because of threats and abusive comments directed at them”.

Mal went on to say:

“Together we must protect our children and referees, and bring the sportsmanship and fair play back into grassroots football”.

The DXTL campaign in Ireland is run by Paul Martin from the FAI. Paul and the FAI have backed the Silent Sideline Campaign and see both as a great fit towards making kids football a better experience for all. If you want more information on the DXTL campaign you can email Paul Martyn at paul.martyn@fai.ie. The DXTL packs are also available for sale through Paul and currently being discount for the 10 year anniversary.

This weekend is going to be a big one with both campaign running side by side and having the support of the FAI and IFA is also very very positive. Looking forward to the next one already!!!!

Check out the little video I made for the Weekend. My first attempt at it, so hence the editing errors and not smiling enough. Like us all, I’m still learning! 🙂

Silent Sideline Video

Here’s to a dry weekend, no rain and no kids getting upset!

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Irish Grassroots Football

Why A Silent Sideline?

Maybe the word Silent is not the correct word to use because encouragement with always benefit the players. Especially when you use the Sandwich approach. The focus behind the weekend is to educate coaches and parents about the power of observation. Alex Ferguson once said “The very best coaches are great observers”

The weekend it’s about giving the game back to the kids. Allowing them to learn the game in a natural manner by letting them make decision by themselves. Letting the game be the teacher on match day. It’s certainly not about taking the atmosphere out of game but instead trying to encourage less coaching from the line. Which in turn puts the kids in control of their decision making for the duration of the game.

“Too often we neglect the journey in our eagerness or anxiety about reaching the goal”

Pauls Swanson purpose of observing was three fold:

  1. To underscore the importance of observation (see previous post on Observation) as a primary coaching tool.
  2. The game day analysis sheets were a way to get coaches to think about appropriate themes they might not otherwise focus on.
  3. Most of my coaches, on some level, feel like they need to be trying to constantly “fix” things by telling players what to to during games, instead of letting the kids play and more objectively thinking about things they could work on in training. It’s my biggest problem. I have always told them they need to observe, so I finally created a tool for them to do that.

“The one thing that best summed up what separated the best coaches from the rest, was their highly developed skill of observation.”

Why Children Learn Faster Than Adults:

Certain tasks children can perform better than adults. For those of you who appreciate the longer scientific answer this is because in adults the prefrontal cortex of the brain, where working memory is stored, is more developed than in children. A developed prefrontal cortex means that adults are hampered by a functional fixedness, causing adults to see a spade as a spade i.e a tool for digging. Or let me put that another way for you sports coaches out there…an adult sees a tennis racket or a shuttlecock as exactly that. However the under-developed prefrontal cortex in a child allows children to be far more inventive than that, as their prefrontal cortex is not limiting their ability to be creative and flexible. You’ll probably know this as “thinking outside of the box”.

So this is why a child can see a broomstick as javelin (yes that was me as a child) or the mattress as a trampoline. As a result, children are often better than adults at solving tasks that require a creative solution, such as being set a challenge with limited equipment. Put another way an adult’s brain is designed to perform, but a child’s brain is designed to learn. With that in mind (pardon the pun) it doesn’t take a child genius to work out that knowing that children’s brains operate in this way must have some useful benefits for a coach. (Thompson-Schill et al, 2009)

What the children see on a sports pitch and what you see is completely different picture. Standing in the middle of a pitch and standing along the sideline gives you an entirely different view of the game. The sports pitch can in some case be the only place a child has the opportunity to experience freedom, make mistakes but even that is taken away by the consistent actions and demands by adults from the sidelines. It’s no surprise that gaming is more popular amongst kids than team sports. When kids play computers games, they don’t have an adult hovering over their shoulder telling them how to play and kids master those games pretty well and they certainly don’t have to worry about making mistakes.

Here are a couple points to remember:

  • Mistakes are part of the process and kids shouldn’t be ridiculed for trying.
  • Children develop at different stage.
  • The level of abuse, bullying and over coaching in kids sports is now at an all time high. Time to stop.
  • Screaming is Not just invading the children’s playtime, they’re preventing children from learning the game in a natural manner.
  • We need to educate adults on stages of development and stop forcing the process.
  • As ADULTS we expect far too much from children at a very young age.
  • We must not forget; we are talking about children not adults.
  • We need to get away from the Yell and Tell culture.
  • Allow them to be children, enjoying all the FUN elements of the game, so that they can mature into the adult game gradually and naturally.
  • It is better to give positive encouragement, refrain from criticism and leave the instructions to the coach.
  • I think a lot of kids will benefit from this even if they are use to hearing encouraging words every weekend.

Children are given instruction at a very young age, everything they do is organised & planned. They have little or no time for free play. In many ways, we are teaching them that they can’t learn by themselves nor to we provide the environment for them to learn alone or even learn with play.

“Feedback is more valuable than instruction. Use problem solving, ask questions rather than technique instruction, to help your child learn to play sports. Too much instruction can actually lead to a longer learning curve for children. Kids learn best by discovery not continuous instruction.” TCD

How will this help the players: 

  1. Instead of being distracted by the stream of noise and instruction that usually exists, the kids on the pitch get the opportunity to communicate with one another, this also gives them time to think and focus on what they are about to do. It also builds team cohesion.
  2. Children must be able to master each step along the way to becoming a happy footballer. The Games should be natural and fit like their shoes.
  3. Less voices means less confusion for the kids. Often they cannot actually hear what is being said, and it is confusing when there is more than one voice to listen to.

This culture of over-coaching and too much “input” from the sidelines actually thwarts the decision-making ability of young players, which is a very important part of their development if they are to make it to the higher levels of the game.”

Here are some interesting Stats about the game in Ireland:

  • On average 50 kids go to England every year, 18 sign contracts
  • 94% who are good enough to get deals with an English club, don’t get as far as a second contract.
  • 75% come home and never play at League of Ireland level.
  • Liverpool Academy stated: 98% of players who are taken in by the English academy fall out by the time they are 18
  • Only 0.021% of u21’s players currently playing in the Barclays u12 league will make it to the premier league.

Remember that your number 1 aim as a coach is to make sure the players you coach fall in love with the game.’ Having fun, is one way of doing just that. Be patient. Not all kids progress at the same rate. And learning the game of football takes more time than most people realize. Allow them to be children, enjoying all the FUN elements of the game, so that they can mature into the adult game gradually and naturally.

Watching kids play sport should be fun for everyone including the parents and coaches.

‘Let the kids play’

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Soccer Parents

A great poem about A kids first game

I found this poem about a Kids First Game:

You Can Download it Here> This is your first game

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A little praise is good but don’t over do it!

Continually saying, “Well-done” to your child even when they haven’t done anything in a game can have the reverse affect. If we over-praise our players, it sends a message that they can’t trust us to be honest. If kids do a bad job on something, they know it, they’re not stupid. If we say it is great just to make them feel better, it just makes them feel worse.

So when praising, make it relevant and don’t over do it. When we over-praise, we take away the motivation to make them try harder. I don’t need to try harder my coach thinks I’m doing great. The fact is you can never stop improving, players should be looking to get better. When praising we need to be realistic to the real world. In your working life you generally only get praise for exceptional work not for day to day expectations. So just like sweets, a small amount is ok but too much can be harmful.

“If you constantly praise your child, she might come to need and expect your approval, rather than learning to gauge success for herself, according to the University of Minnesota Extension office. Children who are addicted to praise become insecure and anxious if they don’t receive accolades for every positive success.”

Kids need challenges to make them feel good about themselves. They need to feel the experience of working hard to accomplish something and the pride that goes along with it. That is what increases their self-esteem. So, as a coach and/or parent, what types of praise works best with kids?

How to Praise

Firstly honesty is the best policy. Kids will appreciate it if you give them honest feedback. If it is not their best work, encourage them to go back and improve it or ask them to evaluate it. Now, let’s be clear here –we are judging honestly based on developmental ability and effort. With the younger ages with need to be a little more flexible. If a three-year-old works hard on something (a picture) and does a good job for him, praise is certainly appropriate, even if doesn’t quite look like the item they are drawing.

What else?

Be specific. “Well done!” doesn’t go nearly as far as “You played really well today, your passing, movement, work rate was the best I’ve seen this season. Keep up the great work, you are doing for the team.” Kids love it when you notice something they did well and play it back for them.

When a child does something well, praise is a powerful tool. One of the most powerful motivating actions you can use is the pat on the back. Coach John Wooden said, “Yes, occasionally the pat must be a little lower and a little harder, but too often parents neglect the praise. They are quick to criticise and slow to commend”

When praise is effective, kids know that it is deserved. They know that they have worked hard and done well. And when praise is deserved, it makes them feel really good. And that is motivation to work even harder the next time. So next time, praise effort and hard work, and be specific in your praise.

To Summarise

Forget the notion that you are responsible for nurturing your child’s self-esteem through constant praise and reassurance. Kids are strong, capable and determined in their own right, and rarely need adults to convince them of their worth.

Instead, give your child freedom to make mistakes and try new things, allow them to discover on their own. You can work together on certain things, since real effort is one of the most effective ways to increase self-esteem. The best thing is to offer sincere, specific praise rather than making vague generalisations so sometimes, a wink, pat on the back, thumbs up or even just a quick squeeze conveys a lot more than words. Sometimes simply saying the words, ‘I Love Watching You Play’ can be all the child needs.

The most important thing to remember is the game belongs to them, so let them take control of their experience and don’t keep offering an opinion. The sooner you release your child to his/her game, the quicker they take responsibility of it. Even continually shouting his/her name can be very distracting and actually take their focus away from the game, so when you say less this can help them more. Sometimes silence (just being present) is the greatest help of all.

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Irish Grassroots Football

Silent Sideline Weekend Update

Just spend the most productive few days at the Running School becoming a Master in DMS which is Dynamic Movements Skills. If you have’t heard or seen DMS, then check this out > DMS. Dynamic Movement Skills will be coming to Ireland soon. The results after just 6 sessions are incredible. More to follow.

Silent Sideline

This week I will be marketing the hell out of SSW. Friday I will be talking on the Grassroots Soccer Show at 7pm on Dublin City Radio, followed by Johnny Lyons on 98FM’s “Now That’s What I Call Sport” at 9am Sunday and then onto Today Fm with Matt Cooper on Wednesday 19th March. I’m still looking to get the support from various leagues and clubs around the country including the DDSL Although I’m told I should have an answer from the committee very soon. No sign of the SDFL getting involved just yet, but hey we still have two weeks. In any other leagues need some more information please don’t hesitate to ask.

In saying all that, I have you and the clubs support; the most important people in this entire campaign. After the kids of course. The Silent Sideline Weekend family is growing by the day and with two weeks to go there is still time for more to get involved. If you need any flyers or are interested in purchasing a SS Pack, email us below.

Remember: Criticism is bookmarked in a child’s head in big red writing. It’s not good for their self-esteem and in lots of cases, kids will walk away from the game for good. No-one likes to be shouted at, not even the little kiddies!.

Don’t forget to send on your video clips (short) and pictures of the weekend. I will be doing a video montage or everything I receive. So please, be adventurers!

The Party Is Getting Bigger…

Ashbourne United, Ardee Celtic, Ballymun United, Blayney Academy FC, Blessington FC, Brookfield Celtic, Buncrana Hearts FC, Carlton and Rothwell Ginants JFC (UK), Cashel Town Schoolgirls, Castleknock Celtic FC, Castle Villa AFC, CarlowJuvenileLeague, Carrick United AFC, Coerver Coaching Munster, Cherry Orchard FC, Corofin United FC, DDSL, Douglas Hall AFC, Drogheda Town FC, Dunboyne AFC, Dunshaughlin Youths, East Meath United, Fettercairn YFC, Fingal County Council Sports, ISRS Dublin (Refs), Harolds Cross Y.C, Hartstown Huntstown FC, Howth Celtic, Jobstown Celtic, Kilbarrack United FC, Kildare League, Kildare Yown AFC, Kitchener Soccer Club (Canada), Laytown United, Liffey Celtic Underage, Liffey Valley Rangers, Lusk United, Malahide United AFC, Metropolitan Girls League, Moyglas (TSSDL), Naas AFC, Nireas Paros FC (Greece), NorthDublinSchoolboyLeague, Nor’West Optimist Soccer (Canada), Passage AFC (cork) Peterhead BC Phoenix (UK), Palmerstown FC, Rivermeade FC, Rivervalley Rangers FC, SandyhillShangan, Shannon Hibernians, Shankill FC, Skerries Town FC, Stamullen FC, Strand Celtic FC (Sligo) St.Francis FC, St.Kevin’s Boys, St.Malachys, St.Pauls Artane, Terenure FC, Tipperary Town Ladies Soccer, Trim Celtic AFC, Wayside Celtic FC, Wicklow District Schoolboys League, Woodlawn Sportslink & Your club next…

If you can’t have fun then maybe it’s time to re-think what you’re doing. I really like the point by Mark O’Sullivan an Irish UEFA A coach working in Sweden: 

“Many think that kids can only learn in adult organised environments (school, Organised Sports), what is worse is that kids are now starting to believe it. Modern organised football training has led to a coach led culture resulting in passive kids who don’t take control or ownership of their own development. The safety option is not to have learners as it is a longer process that rarely gives short term results and in the culture of the coach and early elite development there is very little patience.” – Footblogball

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Worth Every Bit of Your Time!

Recent research suggest that the reason some kids don’t participate in sports is because they can’t move properly. Our kids are not moving enough and when they do, it’s not very much and it’s definitely not multi directional.

Back pain is no longer just an issue amongst elder, more and more kids are suffering with lower back pain than ever before. Why, they are sitting for long periods of time from the minute they wake up; sitting in the car, to sitting all day in school, not allowed run in the yard and back in the car to sitting at home in front of the TV, computer or ipad. We are now facing the biggest ever obesity crises amongst children. We need to get out kids moving more!!

PE is now the singular most important subject in schools today, yet schools treat it with disregard and put no value on it. The most important aspect in life, is your health. Without it, you can’t do very much.

With this in mind I highly recommend these two post by Mark O’Sullivan from Footblogball.

The Class of 2008

This week I spoke with a parent who has an 8 year old in a sports club for the last 2 years. His son will this month go on “trials” for that clubs academy! They train 3-4 times a week. I asked him about the training they were doing (lots of isolated technique) and the criteria for being selected for the academy. I can only conclude that the club in question has a talent identification system based on some bizarre blind chromosomal twist of faith where all the molecules land in perfect order for a natural talent to appear.

Today a friend and I with some parents had our weekly Sunday morning fun football session. The kids are born 2008 and are full of creativity and joy. The families even bring their younger siblings who find it natural to kick/nudge/smash in to a football while sitting on a plastic car. Unfortunately there were no plastic cars in my size.

One of the games we played was not planned but strictly off the cuff mainly inspired by the kids and their immediate environment. The 10 kids were a team in control of 4 footballs within a certain area. Then 3 adults were given the task of “taking” the 4 footballs from the 10 kids. After 3 minutes of much screaming and laughter we took a break and sat down together. We asked the kids “how many ways can you come up with to keep the 4 footballs away from the adults?”. One kid said “we can dribble with the ball” another said “we can turn away from you with the ball”. We said “there may be one more way”. Silence, some discussion then one kid says “we can pass the ball to each other”. It was a real eureka moment that brought great excitement as they tried to envisage how they would pass the ball to each other while helpless adults ran around chasing air. So we played on and the constant shouting of “pass, pass, pass” followed by laughter echoed around the whole area for the remainder of the game. These kids born 2008 had worked it out for themselves through play.

Children are being influenced at a younger age to move from a natural “play” experience to an organised training experience. Imposing on them an adult version of the game where the sport is played for adult reasons (career, winning, making the team) with all the pressure it brings. This early movement to deliberate practice ignores the role of deliberate play in a child’s development and places more focus on extrinsic motivation. This implies that we do not understand that learning and development takes times. By rushing this we miss some great learning opportunities that may later be shown up as technical/ tactical/ cognitive deficiencies.

“Today adults think that kids can only learn in adult organised environments ( school, organised sports) what is worse is that kids are starting to believe it”

It is during adolescence that children need to take ownership of their own development. This ownership needs to be discovered and not forced upon them during childhood.

With children there is no special goal or purpose to play. If children are allowed to discover the game at their own pace they will look for solutions to enable them to perform the skills they feel are necessary to play. Intrinsically motivated they fail and fail better. It is a world full of mistakes of no particular concern to them but mainly of no concern to you … Coach!

Post Two

Next up is, Lynn Kidman is a coach educator who since 1994 has been training coaches to inspire athletes and develop great human beings. Lynn has helped to develop several coaching education programmes which base their philosophy on athlete-centred coaching. Lynn has authored Developing Decision Makers: an empowerment approach to coachingand Athlete-centred Coaching: Developing inspired and inspiring people. She has also co-authored (with Stephanie Hanrahan), The Coaching Process: A guide to improving your effectiveness.

Read On…

Mark blog is FOOTBLOGBALL Follow Mark on Twitter @markstkhlm

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Coach Diary Updates

By the time you get this email Dan will have landed in Dublin. Just in case you don’t know what I’m talking about, go here to find out > DAN ABRAHAMS.

March has arrived and the Silent Sideline Weekend is upon us. If you haven’t sign up yet you still can. Packs are also available, however we have limited stocks. To find out more email support@silentsidelineweekend.com.

Signed Up So far: Just to mention that many clubs from the KDUL, NDSL, CARLOW JUVENILE LEAGUE, METRO GIRLS LEAGUE are also supporting but haven’t entered their details into the system. However we know, the kids have their support. Please enter your club NOW! > Sign Up

Ashbourne United, Ardee Celtic, Ballymun United, Blayney Academy FC, Blessington FC, Brookfield Celtic, Carlton and Rothwell Ginants JFC (UK), Cashel Town Schoolgirls, Castleknock Celtic FC, Castle Villa AFC, CarlowJuvenileLeague, Carrick United AFC, Coerver Coaching Munster, Cherry Orchard FC, Corofin United FC, DDSL (tbc), Douglas Hall AFC, Drogheda Town FC, Dunshaughlin Youths, East Meath United, Fettercairn YFC, Fingal County Council Sports, ISRS Dublin (Refs), Harolds Cross Y.C, Hartstown Huntstown FC, Howth Celtic, Jobstown Celtic, Kilbarrack United FC, Kildare League, Kitchener Soccer Club (Canada), Laytown United, Liffey Celtic Underage, Liffey Valley Rangers, Lusk United, Malahide United AFC, Metropolitan Girls League, Moyglas (TSSDL), Naas AFC, Nireas Paros FC (Greece), NorthDublinSchoolboyLeague, Nor’West Optimist Soccer (Canada), Peterhead BC Phoenix (UK), Palmerstown FC, Rivermeade FC, Rivervalley Rangers FC, SandyhillShangan, Shannon Hibernians, Shankill FC, Skerries Town FC, Strand Celtic FC (Sligo) St.Francis FC, St.Kevin’s Boys, St.Malachys, St.Pauls Artane, Terenure FC, Tipperary Town Ladies Soccer, Trim Celtic AFC, Wayside Celtic FC, Woodlawn Sportslink & Your club next…

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