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    Win Your Team Win Your Game: How To Be Successful At Coaching Youth Football
    Win Your Team Win Your Game: How To Be Successful At Coaching Youth Football
    Win Your Team Win Your Game: How To Be Successful At Coaching Youth Football
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    Win Your Team Win Your Game: How To Be Successful At Coaching Youth Football

    By Neale Stuart and Raymond Aaron

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    Neale Stuart has been on both ends of coaching. There were coaches who inspired him to become more and others who were only concerned with winning and not developing young people into great adults. In this book, Neale teaches you not only the basics of being a football coach to kids but how you can mentor them into strong, productive adults. You will learn how to encourage those underneath you to become the best person they can be. Neale shares from his own experiences about what works and does not work with kids today. He also gives valuable insights into how to create a team that not only wins on the field but in life as well.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 27, 2020
    ISBN9781772773361
    Win Your Team Win Your Game: How To Be Successful At Coaching Youth Football

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      Win Your Team Win Your Game - Neale Stuart

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      Chapter 1

      Back to the Basics

      1

      Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

      – Pete Caroll

      I grew up in a football family. We live for the game. It’s no mystery where I got my love for the game—my dad is a professional football fanatic. My dad has been a football fan since he was a little kid. Dad played football at school, and at home with his brothers while growing up. He watches every game he can on TV, and gets tickets every time his favorite team comes to Seattle. Football is in our blood. Not only do we watch it all the time, we keep up on all the sports news and the progress and injuries of all the players, and we study the matchups of the upcoming week. We both play fantasy football, so we monitor every player for every team; especially our favorite team, the Oakland Raiders. Go, Silver and Black!

      Football is special at our house. How important is it? Let’s just say that Super Bowl Sunday is as big as Christmas and Easter at the Stuart home. It’s a really, really, really big deal!

      My first memory of going to a Raiders game (at only five years old!) was when I got to go on the field and meet the players and coaches. That was the moment that my love of football was cemented in my heart. Seeing the drive and power of the players, focused on a single goal, lit a fire in me, and I had to play too. So, at 6 years old, I started throwing and passing the ball.

      As I grew older, I continued to play, and in middle school, my friends were football players and teammates. Playing football is an education all by itself. We learned what it meant to work together and trust each other, on the field and off. Hours of practice taught me discipline. It taught me to respect people for their skills and their integrity. The game does not necessarily define you—but if you let it, it refines you into a man of character.

      The Right Coach Starts a Fire…

      I have so much passion for football that I now teach it to a dozen or so kids in my neighborhood, once a week. But there was a time when my love of the game was nearly snuffed out because of some bad coaching I experienced early on in my career.

      That’s why I am writing this book, because I want every coach out there to understand how to make the game into a passion for the kids who are playing. My theory is that if you can see just a spark of interest for football, in a child, the right coach can turn that spark into a blazing fire. It is a combination of encouraging, mentoring, and pushing them to stretch their limits, while sharing your own passion for the game.

      Football is a remarkable sport. It requires unity, teamwork, and discipline. Under the right circumstances, it will bring an entire community together. I love seeing people work together for a victory. The thrill of your team winning, and the intensity of knowing that the eleven players on the field are on your side, is powerful.

      The strategic complexity of the different plays is so compelling. It is fascinating to analyze and read the unfolding drama in a series of defensive and offensive plays as the game goes on. The importance of communication between the players is crucial as they try to out-think the other team. The very best analysts can see what the players are going to do before they even do it.

      I get an adrenaline rush from seeing players execute nice catches or tackles. I get that feeling even when I’m watching the opposing team doing it, because I can appreciate the skill and hours of practice that it takes to master those techniques. Football is a challenging sport that demands excellence from everyone involved.

      And the Wrong Coach Quenches the Flame

      My own experiences with poor coaches could have killed my love for the game, but it meant too much to me to let that happen. Unfortunately, my experience is not unique. There are many children, even some of them with the potential to become professional players, who will never reach their football potential, all because they encountered a coach who crushed their spirit.

      When I first began playing, I knew that I had some challenges ahead. One of the biggest? I am a pretty skinny kid. I have a body better suited for the swim team than for football. But the swim team is not where my passion lies. I was born to toss the pigskin and race down the field.

      Sadly, when I played tackle football for my middle school, the coaches at school weren’t truly passionate about football. It was just part of the job. They looked at their lists, saw where there was a hole that needed to be filled, and filled the slot. They didn’t even see me.

      The football coaches set me up as a lineman, which didn’t really fit my body type or my skill set. As a result, I often felt insecure and embarrassed. Being put in as a lineman never felt like a good position for me. I had dreamed of being a wide receiver, and I knew that I would be good at it, but they wouldn’t put me there. It felt as though I was being set up to fail. I was going against a bunch of big linemen, and everyone was just pushing me over because I was a skinny little kid! I really didn’t want to go to practice, but missing practice meant I couldn’t even get into the next game, so I never missed a practice. I didn’t talk to the coaches because they were not interested in discussing changes or fostering the goals of individual players. They weren’t approachable at all. They were there to get paid and put on a game.

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