Coaching, continued

Learning from each other is the basis for achieving a common goal. Believing in the future of soccer, modern soccer is increasingly turning toward science. The principle of causality is one of the principles of science, which is why I believe that ethics has a chance of transcending science and sports. A fish does not notice that it is living in water because it could not live anywhere else. By the same token, people involved in soccer do not think about the ultimate target purpose of soccer because by playing it they live in it and through it.

Sports that do not have an element of risk are not sports. In soccer it is reflected in outplaying, in the constant fear of defeat if one does not play a more aggressive game. Is courage a virtue? In sports in general, including soccer, a virtue (such a courage) is acquired, not inherited. To enter into a duel in the heat of the battle without thinking? Physical courage is not enough if it is not accompanied by intelligence to properly guide it and take advantage of it in appropriate fashion.

Courage is getting up after every rough start and going on without paying attention to the pain, continuing after every defeat, courage is overcoming all doubts upon waking up in the morning with the same question: to go on or not. As long as we consciously believe in ourselves we live and exist. Courage is believing in ourselves in order to believe in others more easily. So you must believe! Believing in what we are doing, believing in the ability to improve, we also believe in people. By investing and constantly seeking what is better, critically examining doubt, and optimizing the will, we experience life optimistically.

The holiest of holies of the trainer’s job is in the opportunity to judge, weigh, and think. How long the cooperation between the athlete and the trainer will last depends on the talent on either side. Moreover, the greatest courage and skill on the part of the trainer is needed when discovering soccer talent. Those who are concerned with discovering talent and nurturing it must not belong to the world of mediocrity.

To be a trainer means to be a leader, which means acquiring many kinds of knowledge. The place and the role of the trainer should be in step with the times to protect the profession for a better future.

Contracts between players, trainers and teams must be honored for the good of the atmosphere in the club. Unnatural severances of contracts are like artificial mayhems. A good trainer knows how to recognize every form of average behavior that enables us to distinguish the talented from the untalented more easily. Thus, the trainer working with talented soccer players also improves himself, aspiring to top perfection. By leading wisely, we will drive away all the bitterness inherent in various problems that can appear because at the moment of choice, there is no past or future time. Struggling with outdated methods of work it is necessary to be able to persist in the new because every new position, form and approach is initially unacceptable because it is contrary to generally accepted practice. The trainer is faced with the difficult task of analyzing the soccer player with respect to the elements that come with him, such as mentality, environment from he is coming, material stimulation (which is most preoccupying in professional soccer), and the environment in which the soccer player is working and training.

The link between the trainer and the soccer player lies in their mutual acquaintance. Every form of brutishness is excluded. The speed in the transmittal of energy will depend on the skill of the trainer and the adaptability of talent to absorb.

In order to achieve their desired goal athletes (soccer players) and trainers, true connoisseurs of soccer, are responsible for protecting their work from amateurs who have chosen the wrong line of work, and for whom soccer is often a true love that arrived too late. All this does not prevent them from participating in it very aggressively without the least bit of true, expert knowledge and education, giving themselves the right to judge by tactless, frequently personal comments, and even to make final decisions.

It is not enough to have actively taken part in soccer for a length of time to have expertise in it. For this very reason, in order to achieve the clearest causal relationship between the trainer and the soccer player, it is necessary to aspire to perfection in all elements of expertise.