How to lose a youth soccer game on the opening coin

  

Losing a game because you did not properly train your children on coin toss? I've seen it happen twice.

How does this happen? Team A wins the throw and the defense, Team B, when they lost the throw, the referee tells them that they will defend the southern goal, as their coach asked them to defend the southern goal if they lost the coin toss. Team A receives the ball in the first half, and as Team A postpones their selection to the second half, when the second half starts, Team A chooses to receive the ball again. Team A will have got extra possession due to poor coaching from the head coach of team B. I have seen this happen in a handful of games because team B's coach did not take the time to practice coin flipping, the team did not respond properly to "postpone " the choice.

How do you make sure this does not happen to your youth soccer team?

First, make sure that the group of captains you send out to call flips includes a player who is quite sharp. Designate the sharp player as the one who calls the coin flip and speaks for the team at the clipping, and practice the coin flip with him. Some youth football players freeze at coin toss because it's something new for them, clips need to be practiced just like you practice your football games.

Ask the player to call the flip, he should know if he wants to call heads or tails before going out on the field. When he calls the flip, turn the coin over and assume the flip is good. The player then instructs the referee if he either wants to receive, defend a goal or postpone his selection to the second half. If exposed, the player must know which end zone you want to defend to start the game with. Then you go through the process if he loses the flip and the other team chooses first. Again, they have the choice of receiving, defending a goal or postponing.

The simplest way to cover all the bases is to instruct your designated speaker to tell the referee that you want the ball, no matter what the flip will be, then let the player tell the referee "we want the ball". We instruct our players to tell the referee "we want the ball" in response to any referee question under the flip. Only after the referee has asked and received the answer three times that "we want the ball" can we answer with what goal we want to 7m.

We always receive if we win the coin toss. Youth football is a game where the team that scores first has a lot of advantage in momentum, we also want to control the clock and set the pace for the whole game on offense. With just 10 minutes left in most youth football matches, every possession and every watch is on the more meaningful. If we lose the coin toss, we are not waiting for the wind in the fourth quarter, we want to put the game out of reach early, so we take the wind just outside the bat to put the other teams in an immediate disadvantage.

Good youth football training includes managing your game day well, and nothing is worse than blowing the opening coin toss. Practice it as if you are playing football and you will not be embarrassed by giving up two possessions on the opening flip. Remember, like most mistakes at this level, it's all about coaching and preparation.