Competitive Coaches
Age Specific
Click on the links below for more information about the age group you are coaching.
Each page is dedicated to age specific needs. Over the coming weeks practice plans, videos, articles and more will be posted to help you work with your players.
FIFA 11+
Use Part 1 of this warm-up for U9-U12 players. This link takes you directly to the FIFA site which has a lot of helpful information about the 11+
Coaching News
WSC Summer Camp Registration Open NOW
- 04/28/2012, 3:01pm (CDT)
State Cup Begins April 28
- 04/27/2012, 1:07pm (CDT)
PASSBACK - Your old uniforms or slightly used soccer shoes
- 04/21/2012, 6:17am (CDT)
Club Coach Events
These events are for Recreation and Competitive Coaches in our club
Competitive Vision Statement
The WSC Competitive program is an open, player centric, community based program that strives to develop soccer players through a comprehnsive process focused on ownership, problem solving, and decision making. Players will exhibit soccer and personal growth, competitiveness, and character through dedication, teamwork, and effort.
What happened to losing?
Neil Swidey writes a good article exploring competition.
Take a read through. Some key points from the article about good competition:
- Participation is voluntary
- Teams are set up so everyone has a reasonable chance of winning
- The importance of winning is relatively minor, so that 10 minutes after the game who won and who lost can barely be remembered
- The rules are clear and fair
- Relative progress can be monitored
- Competition is "to strive with." The best competition is when both competitors best comes out.
MYSA Winter Symposium
Recently, MYSA sent 10 coaches to the MYSA Winter Symposium. Presentations covered a variety of topics that ranged from U5/U6 Rec players to functional play of different groups at the competitive levels.
Andrew Seidel was one of the attendees who took particular note of two sessions. A session on motivation by Dr. Bhalla from the University of Minnesota and John Curtis, MYSA's Director of Coaching who did a session on the combination play between central midfielders.
To the right are Coach Andy's notes from the motivation session and a practice plan he recently used with his team based upon the midfield session obsereved.
Comp Parent Meetings
Don't miss out on the information
Parent meeting presentations
Meetings are all posted now
