The Targetizer

Yes, even our beloved game is being bashed by the economy.

Many soccer schools are down on numbers, many football clinics are showing a rapid decline - it’s frightening to see people panic and get scared.

So what do you do?

Do you run and hide, stick a blanket over your head and hope it all goes away some time soon? Or is it time to stand up and be counted?

Here’s a story that may interest you:

In early Januray this year a subscriber and friend of The Targetizer decided to go out alone. He was constantly getting threratned from his boss that if things didn’t pick up he would be out on his ear.

Now, my friend isn’t some fly-by-night or time filler. He’s an honest hard working guy who always has his family’s best interest at heart.

But his boss’ business was suffering big time and he was getting in the neck constantly.

In December he came to me to ask about coaching in general as he also coaches for his local Junior Football Club where his son plays….

So I offered some advice and he went away. I sensed there was more to what he wanted to say but sometimes you’ve just got to let people work it out in their own heads and let them do the figuring out.

Right enough, he came back a couple of weeks later and asked some general questions about soccer schools and ‘was it easy to set up’ etc. etc.

You know when someone’s got something on their mind so before I answered his question I asked him if ‘running a socer school would be something he would be intersted in?’

He said he’d been thinking about it for some time but:

1. Didn’t know how to start
2. Wasn’t sure he was qualified enough
3. Didn’t know how to promote his idea
4. Wasn’t sure if people would come
5. Pretty scared of starting and failing
6. Needed to be sure because it was a matter of survival

It was obvious that he’d been thinking about this for some time. It was also obvious that he was scared to death of cutting loose from his old job and totally changing his life for something he didn’t know had a future or not. Who wouldn’t be?

Big questions needing some big answers. So I started by…..
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Goal scoring is the life blood of football / soccer.

Without goals the game can be dull (especially forthe fans).

It’s no surprise then, that goal scorers - strikers - that can score goals consistently - are paid huge sums of money ranging into the millions.

Not to mention the massive sponsorship deals with multi-million pound corporations. And of course the recognition that comes from being a world renowned goal scorer.

So how come only a few strikers actually make it?
What sets them apart? What is the difference between a striker that ‘makes it’ and a goal scorer that doesn’t?

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Turn Those Fun Football Games In The Garden Into Rich Learning Experiences That Will Last A Lifetime And Could Change Your Child’s Life For The Better…

How A Fun Target Goal Can Give Your Child The World’s Most Wanted Soccer Skill - The Ability To Score Goals Consistently

In todays hectic, time-limited lifestyles we know how impoprtant it is to make the time we do spend with our loved ones the best and most rewarding we can.

The ever-lasting memories of the days teaching your child the fun skills of soccer, bathing in the spring and summer sun.

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Don’t Allow Your To Child Get Rejected By Soccer Academy Coaches
Just Because You Didn’t Know These Simple Facts…

Children are being cherry picked for academies right now as we speak. Your child may be one of those chosen or a possible contender and have a really bright future ahead.

But statistics show that only one per cent will have any chance of actually making it through to schools of excellence and on to the professional game.

And what happens to those players that are dropped like a disused napkin into the rejection pile of countless hopefuls that were simply not “good enough”?

Some do bounce back and prove those coaches who dropped them wrong.
That’s special.

Unfortunately the vast majority never recover and their self esteem and confidence is left shattered, broken into tiny pieces that parents struggle, sometimes for many years, to try and rebuild.

It’s a very tough thing for anyone, let alone your child, to accept and be forced to believe that they’re simply not good enough to achieve their dream.

Ask yourself this…
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How To Add Fun and Enjoyment Into Your Coaching

Adding Fun and Enjoyment Into Coaching - well how do we do that??We keep hearing about the importance of having fun training sessions especially for our younger players but how do we incorporate relative and educational fun into our sessions and make sure we still educate our younger players?

Let’s just step back and ask why fun is such a serious element, if you know what I mean!

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