Youth sports coaches look at why coaching children is rewarding

This inspirational video clip from Sports Coach UK asks four leading sports coaches what makes a good youth coach, what the key skills are, and how coaches can help their players develop to achieve their full potential.

Pete Sturgess, National Development Coach 5-11 for the Football Association (8.40min), talks about his experiences of being coached as a young soccer (football) player and how this has affected his coaching philosophy. The interviews in this clip also look at the reasons why coaching youngsters is so rewarding, for instance, because of their resillience, enthusiasm and willingness to make mistakes as part of the learning process.

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