How to become a coach | Football Coach Resources

how to become a coach you've been asking me  to make a video on the process of going from  

nothing to becoming a coach let's try  with the first shot before telling you  

how to become a coach i want you to ask  yourself why you want to become a coach  

why do you want to do it is it because you watch  football and you watch the managers it gives you  

a nice feeling to copy them is it because you  feel that you're that teacher type so you can  

be a good teacher you can help young kids become  a better footballer or do you just want to do it  

for the sake of becoming a coach ask yourself  why you want to do it and then from that point  

you do what i'm telling you this video applies  to anybody in any part of the world if you're  

in argentina if you're in nigeria if you're in  iran if you're in dubai or if you are in the  

united kingdom it applies to you the first  thing that you do is you will contact your  

football federation football association in your  community there must be a football association  

you contact them and say hey i'm a 14 year old  boy or 18 year old year i'm a 35 year old man  

i want to become a coach where do i start  they have courses for all abilities so you  

start from the bottom that's when your education  begins and then at the same time so that's your  

education you need to have experience as well  you will find your local clubs it could be your  

community team that play in the park it could  be your local team that plays in the league  

it could be a local football school  whatever it is you will contact them say hey  

i'm a football fanatic i love football football  is my life i'm doing my coaching courses  

i want to get involved with coaching  i want to just come and help  

anything that involves football i'm there  whether it's washing bibs helping coaches  

pumping footballs or simply shadowing the coach  or even standing there like a mannequin i mean  

so then what happens is while you're working on  your knowledge you also get practical experience  

being that football environment is so underrated  i see a lot of educated coaches that when they go  

in the football environment they cannot operate  they cannot do what they know because they've  

never been in that situation so even if you  go to a club and you are not doing anything  

understand that unconsciously  you're recording information  

which can be useful later on so these are the  two things that you need to do now you go to  

your federation whether it's the english fa or if  it's fai or if it's iran football federation or  

u.s soccer it doesn't matter where you go those  guys are just there to help you get your license  

getting a license is like getting a driving  license you need to have the license to drive but  

having it's a dock but having the driving license  does not make you a good or a top driver right  

so what can you do from that point number one  you will never ever ever never stop with your  

education even if you get the pro license there  are always courses that can make you better i'm  

always on courses and i can see people that are  here but they never stay there they always go  

to the next level right so learning never stops  coaches are the lifelong students of the game that  

should be in your head it never stops you are not  going to make the mistake of most coaches i see  

all of them they get a license 10 years ago and  they think they are done but what they don't know  

is they became a dinosaur coach you're just stuck  in the past you're not updated yeah you're not up  

to date so you will always focus on education and  at this time same time you're going to have an  

analytical mind you will analyze your work you  will analyze your performance you will analyze  

the execution of your plan all the time non-stop  whether it's a session that you did yesterday  

or if it's a long-term plan for your team  that lasts for a season always reflect and  

based on that reflection go back to your plan make  adjustments therefore you have a better outcome  

becoming a coach might look easy but it's  probably one of the toughest jobs in the  

world because it involves humans and you know  when you have humans there's always human error  

when you have humans there's always feelings  emotions and these emotions a lot of times  

influence our decision making which can  lead to either a disaster or success  

i hope this short video helps you i will  make more videos about this in the future  

but i request you if you become a coach i  understand that your job as somebody that  

learns something never stops the more you  learn the better you can teach good luck