Gary Fixter

Posted by garyfixter on March 21st, 2020

Gary Fixter -How to teach soccer techniques without dying trying

Gary Fixter - 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.