Hi
I'm 15 and am aspiring to be a pro manager. I have been training with a new team, to play for. The training was awful and unorginised. I was then asked by a dad if i would train this team. But i not sure that they would respect my ideas and listen because we are the same age.
HOPE YOU CAN HELP AS U ALWAYS DO
MATT

You are probably gonna find it very tough winning over their respect so maybe you want an older fella to back you up

Hi mate,a bit of friendly advice,I am 30 and I coach Leeds City Vixens womens open age team and they are all younger than me and it is still hard getting them to listen.I also coach children as young as 4 and to be honest its far easier coaching youngsters than kids your own age.Like the guy above said its getting them to respect and listen to you and not class you as there mate.Thats the hard bit.At 15 I would look to coach any age upto under 10s

Good Luck

have you any coaching experience?

Get your coaching levels done ie JSLA the CSLA

Hi,

good luck with the coaching, hope it all went/is going well.

I've been coaching since I was 11 so I had to at some point coach my age and older, as long as you make sure you are authoratative instantly and make sure that you keep a good balance between seriousnes and enjoyment you should be fine. Keep it simple and don't get irritated if they don't take to you instantly or at all. Football as a whole is about making mistakes and it's the same with coaching, you will make mistakes it's how you recover that you will be judged on.

Best of luck.

As you said training has been awful and unorganised. If you take up this opportunity to become coach you'll need to make sure training is organised, and that each player benefits as much as possible from the time you have at training.

Most of my coaching experience has been with players of about this age, and they can be a difficult group to work with. Listed below are what I believe to be the most important points to remember.

1. Keep your players under control. Make sure you have their attention, there are no distractions, and that they do as you say.
2. Arrive at training with your session planned out in writing and all equipment available and ready to go.
3. Have the knowledge to be able to teach what you want to teach. Remember the most important coaching points for each exercise, and emphasise these.

Remember that coaching is about improvement. You need to consider in which areas your team needs to most urgently improve, and prepare a training session accordingly. At training you need to make sure your session gets completed as planned.

If your players can go home from training believing that they have benefited from it then they will have no trouble in accepting you as their coach.

If training continues to be an awful and disorganised waste of time then expect a difficult time and no respect at all.