A very good soccer coach knows his team members well. This is one of the key concepts of coaching. If a coach is not familiar with his team members’ attitudes, strengths, and weaknesses, he would not be able to know what position each should play or what tactic he should use to win a match. It is highly important for soccer coaches to develop a friendly and relatively close relationship with his team members; this makes him learn about the aspects in which a member can improve himself and help him do so. In addition to these, soccer practice will always be enjoyable, since team members will not feel awkward while performing soccer drills.
Another thing to do to become a better soccer coach is to improvise a variety of soccer drills, for players to enjoy and like what they are doing. Soccer players tend to lose their interest and