Contact: Darren
Phone: 0272723172
Email: dkclements@xtra.co.nz
EASTSIDE Football Academy
Where: Clare Park - Burwood
Eastside Football Academy - PHILOSOPHY
"Endeavour + Application = Success"
1. Creating the perfect learning enviroment
- Player centred, ensuring the opportunity develop
- Enjoyable for players to be a part of
- Individual players to be set appropriate challenges
- Players take ownership in developing their abiity
- Encourage players to be creative
- Encourage players to make mistakes
- Encourage players to try new things
- Safe
- Code of conduct to ensure players development
3. Coaching - The coach
- Planned, prepared, organised and dedicated
- Passionate about football
- Fosters player engagement
- Positive and supportive
- Respect and fair to all players
- Lots of praise and encouragement
- Show leadership
- Clear and decisive
- Meet the players individual needs
- Set my own personal goals for the players to accomplish theirs
2. Training
- Player development at the heart of the training structure
- Use of affective challengers to promote creativity
- Emphasis is always on teamwork
- Activities to include competitivenes
- Teaching and understanding why, when and how?
- Effective and game related
- Technical
- Individualised
- Physical
4. Players - The kids
- Players to set goals
- Players ownership of their self improvement
- Repectful to all players and coaches
- Focused
- Challenge themselves
- Participate in conversations
- Find solutions
- Allow themselves to make mistakes
- Train with intensity
- Ask questions
- Enjoyment
