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I found this little diddy from Alex Ferguson interesting
I heard there were three speeches at that Labour party football dinner at Wembley.
Tony made a speech and left and then Gordon made a funny speech, talking about Scotland-England games.
And then it was Sir Alex Ferguson. But his wasn't a normal sort of speech because Clive Tyldesley interviewed him.
Sir Alex said : I think there are three elements to developing sport.
The first one is practice. He said people have got to be given the time to practice. That's the most crucial element. He said if you haven't got the work ethic to practice, you've got no chance.
And he told the story about Eric Cantona after his first day at training. When they finished, Eric said, "Can I borrow a couple of lads, a couple of players?"
"Yeah, what for?" said Fergie.
"I want to practice," said Eric.
So Fergie went over to another part of the Cliff and got two young lads. And Eric said, "I need a goalie as well." So he went and got him a goalie .
And Cantona spent the rest of the afternoon practicing volleys. And Fergie said that the next day, after training, he found some the first team players were hanging around. One player completely changed the culture. From then on, everybody stayed on for extra training. He said : Eric completely changed my training routines. Before that my training routines had been a getting a bit of everything done in a limited period of time.
So that was the first thing : practice !
Then Fergie went on to talk about coaching and said that coaches weren't sufficiently respected. He said coaches were very, very important. Without them you're not gonna get anywhere - but, frankly, coaches are disrespected. Coaches get sacked on whims, don't get proper time, proper support.
And the last thing is the winning mentality. It's all very well encouraging kids, parents can do that. But when it comes to coaching, you've got to instil the winning mentality. And there's no excuse for not doing that, for saying they're too young. You've got to foster a winning mentality.The coaches have to demand a winning mentality.
I heard there were three speeches at that Labour party football dinner at Wembley.
Tony made a speech and left and then Gordon made a funny speech, talking about Scotland-England games.
And then it was Sir Alex Ferguson. But his wasn't a normal sort of speech because Clive Tyldesley interviewed him.
Sir Alex said : I think there are three elements to developing sport.
The first one is practice. He said people have got to be given the time to practice. That's the most crucial element. He said if you haven't got the work ethic to practice, you've got no chance.
And he told the story about Eric Cantona after his first day at training. When they finished, Eric said, "Can I borrow a couple of lads, a couple of players?"
"Yeah, what for?" said Fergie.
"I want to practice," said Eric.
So Fergie went over to another part of the Cliff and got two young lads. And Eric said, "I need a goalie as well." So he went and got him a goalie .
And Cantona spent the rest of the afternoon practicing volleys. And Fergie said that the next day, after training, he found some the first team players were hanging around. One player completely changed the culture. From then on, everybody stayed on for extra training. He said : Eric completely changed my training routines. Before that my training routines had been a getting a bit of everything done in a limited period of time.
So that was the first thing : practice !
Then Fergie went on to talk about coaching and said that coaches weren't sufficiently respected. He said coaches were very, very important. Without them you're not gonna get anywhere - but, frankly, coaches are disrespected. Coaches get sacked on whims, don't get proper time, proper support.
And the last thing is the winning mentality. It's all very well encouraging kids, parents can do that. But when it comes to coaching, you've got to instil the winning mentality. And there's no excuse for not doing that, for saying they're too young. You've got to foster a winning mentality.The coaches have to demand a winning mentality.
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