Gary Fixter -How to teach soccer techniques without dying trying • Soccer techniques are learned, you are not born knowing them, because they are not natural at all. The mission of every coach is to teach them with a good communicative disposition. • • Soccer techniques are not natural. No. You have to learn them, run them over and over again until you can naturalize them, if possible, combining them with the skills of each player. The rest, patience of the coach, much, much common sense and applied didactics.
• You can be born with soccer skills, but nobody comes into the world knowing how to execute soccer techniques. It's easy to understand. • You can be born with an innate physical capacity for speed, you can be explosive in the race or you can be very agile, but nobody is born knowing how to position oneself to mark a fast forward or how to solve the situation of throwing a ball with his back to the net without seeing the goal.
• These are soccer techniques that the player has discovered and learned. Anticipation or speed can put a player in a situation or playing position with a great advantage, but speed and anticipation alone cannot play for the footballer. • And is that many football techniques, as with all modern sports, are not natural at all.
• Gary Fixter - Football techniques must be learned with teaching methods that guarantee that there is a real assimilation of the processes that are in them. Furthermore, it is essential that the player perform exercises, train the technique and retrain it until the movements are automated and naturalized. • It is natural to kick with the toe, the unnatural is to hit the side of the foot. With the lateral, it is possible to not only control the speed of the ball, but also to orient the ball or generate a certain effect when passing or shooting it.
• From your own experience, you will know that hitting the ball with the outside of the instep is not the same as with the inside. • A very common mistake of base coaches is to assume that players who stand out with a natural ability, for example, as we have mentioned, moving it with skill with the foot, can develop their full potential without a follow-up, without technical accompaniment . • Without learning the fundamentals of soccer techniques there can be no player progress. Part of training well is teaching. Yes, and teach well.