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"Keep going son" is a phrase that is shouted many times when parents want to support their children on the side of a football pitch. Nowadays, parents are highly involved and visible in youth football. With sports such as football providing a public arena for parents to provide immediate and specific feedback to their children, it is important for coaches to understand parents' involvement in competitive youth sport settings

This video clip from Sports Coach UK has some valuable coaching tips for new and inexperienced coaches on how to create a positive learning environment for youngsters.

With the 24/7 media coverage of pro sport, sports fans have become accustomed to and somewhat complacent with hearing about athletes and their deviant acts.In fact, new statistics reveal that bad behavior is clearly evident among high school athletes, particularly in high-contact sports.

How do youth footballers define success and failure, what they perceive to be the consequences of success and failure? What are the types and levels of fears of failure, and how does their fear of failure affects the? What contributes towards their fear of failure and how they cope with these fears? This article attempts to answer these questions

Your son or daughter plays different sports, and starts to show potential as a athlete. Their coaches start to suggest that they should specialize in one sport. Should they do that, and when, and if they don't will it harm their chances of fulfilling their potential?

Visit any youth soccer field, baseball diamond, basketball court or football field and you will likely see them: parents behaving badly. What is behind this rage?

This article describes why coaches and parents should avoid placing too much emphasis on winning in youth sport, and focus more on the process of performance.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are as many as 300,000 sports and recreation-related concussions each year in the U.S., yet the diagnosis, immediate treatment and long-term effects are still a mystery to most coaches, parents and even some clinicians. So what i a concussion?

What's the best approach to coaching tactics and technique to children? This blog outlines some different approaches and suggests a mix and match approach.

Bangladesh U-19 cricket team flew to Christchurch, New Zealand to play a bilateral series. This is the nation's first tour since their first team Test players narrowly escaped the deadly mosque attacks in Christchurch earlier this year. A 15-member squad left Dhaka to play five youth ODI matches.

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