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What you say in those few minutes, and in the days after, shapes whether they come back keener or come back quieter. Feedback is one of the biggest tools a grassroots coach has, and most of us are never taught how to use it.","text",{"type":139,"content":145},[146],{"text":147,"type":143},"I coach Springhead U12 Spartans over in Hessle. Across a full season I have learned that good feedback is less about being clever and more about being clear, kind and well timed. Here is how I go about it.",{"type":149,"attrs":150,"content":152},"heading",{"level":151},2,[153],{"text":154,"type":143},"Say less right after the game",{"type":139,"content":156},[157],{"text":158,"type":143},"The final whistle is the worst moment for detailed feedback. The kids are tired, emotional, and half of them are already thinking about the snacks. Straight after a game I keep it to one or two calm sentences. Well played, I liked how we kept passing when we went a goal down, we will look at the defending on Tuesday. That is enough. Save the real coaching for training when heads are clear.",{"type":149,"attrs":160,"content":161},{"level":151},[162],{"text":163,"type":143},"Praise the effort, not only the result",{"type":139,"content":165},[166],{"text":167,"type":143},"If you only ever praise goals and wins, the kids who work hard without scoring feel invisible, and everyone learns that the scoreboard is the only thing that counts. I try to notice the tracking back, the brave header, the lad who kept trying a skill even after it went wrong. That is the stuff that actually builds players, and it tells the quieter kids that you see them.",{"type":149,"attrs":169,"content":170},{"level":151},[171],{"text":172,"type":143},"Be specific",{"type":139,"content":174},[175],{"text":176,"type":143},"Great game is nice to hear but it teaches nothing. The way you took that touch away from the defender before you passed, that was brilliant, tells the player exactly what to do again. Specific praise sticks because the child can picture it. Vague praise floats off. The same goes for things to fix: not concentrate more, but when we lose the ball your first job is to get goal side of your man.",{"type":149,"attrs":178,"content":179},{"level":151},[180],{"text":181,"type":143},"One thing at a time",{"type":139,"content":183},[184],{"text":185,"type":143},"It is tempting to fix everything at once. Do not. A ten year old cannot hold six corrections in their head. Pick the one thing that will make the biggest difference this week and leave the rest. Next week, pick the next thing. Over a season those small single steps add up to a much better player, and the child never feels swamped.",{"type":149,"attrs":187,"content":188},{"level":151},[189],{"text":190,"type":143},"Ask more than you tell",{"type":139,"content":192},[193],{"text":194,"type":143},"Some of the best feedback is a question. What did you see just before you passed there? Where could you have stood to get more time? When you ask, the player has to think, and what they work out for themselves sticks far better than anything you hand them. It also turns feedback into a conversation instead of a telling off.",{"type":149,"attrs":196,"content":197},{"level":151},[198],{"text":199,"type":143},"Mind your tone on the touchline",{"type":139,"content":201},[202],{"text":203,"type":143},"Kids hear how you say something long before they hear what you say. Shouting instructions across the pitch, even well meant ones, mostly adds pressure and drowns out their own thinking. I try to stay calm during play and save the coaching points for the breaks. A quiet word at half time lands better than ten shouts during the game.",{"type":149,"attrs":205,"content":206},{"level":151},[207],{"text":208,"type":143},"Feedback for parents too",{"type":139,"content":210},[211,213,219],{"text":212,"type":143},"Parents want to know how their child is getting on, and if you do not tell them they will fill the gap themselves, sometimes loudly on the touchline. A short, honest word after a game or two, focused on effort and progress rather than ranking kids against each other, keeps everyone calm and on side. A quick match report helps here. A few lines per game, shared with the group, means parents feel informed and the players get a record of their season. If writing that up feels like a chore, our guide to ",{"text":214,"type":143,"marks":215},"AI match reports",[216],{"type":217,"attrs":218},"link",{"href":62},{"text":220,"type":143}," shows how a handful of notes can become a proper write-up in seconds.",{"type":149,"attrs":222,"content":223},{"level":151},[224],{"text":225,"type":143},"Keep a record so you can show progress",{"type":139,"content":227},[228,230,235],{"text":229,"type":143},"The most powerful feedback of all is showing a child how far they have come. If you keep simple notes through the season, minutes played, positions tried, a line on what each player worked on, you can sit down in December and say look how much better you are at this than in September. That is the kind of feedback that keeps kids in the game. It is far easier if you keep it all in one place rather than scattered across notebooks and WhatsApp. You can see how I keep training and squad notes tidy on the ",{"text":231,"type":143,"marks":232},"coaches page",[233],{"type":217,"attrs":234},{"href":22},{"text":236,"type":143},".",{"type":149,"attrs":238,"content":239},{"level":151},[240],{"text":241,"type":143},"End on something they can go and do",{"type":139,"content":243},[244,246,251],{"text":245,"type":143},"Every bit of feedback should leave the player with something to try, not only a list of what went wrong. Finish with a clear, doable next step. Work on your weaker foot in the garden this week. Look up before you receive the ball. Small homework like that turns feedback into action, and it gives the next session at ",{"text":247,"type":143,"marks":248},"training",[249],{"type":217,"attrs":250},{"href":66},{"text":252,"type":143}," somewhere to start.",{"type":139,"content":254},[255],{"text":256,"type":143},"Good feedback is not complicated. Be specific, be kind, pick one thing, and always leave the child with a way forward. Do that game after game and you will not only make better players, you will make kids who actually want to keep playing. In grassroots football, that is the whole job.","tiptap","","2026-09-16T08:00:00+00:00","How to Give Feedback to Grassroots Players","How to give useful feedback to young footballers: keep it specific, praise effort, pick one thing at a time and always leave them a next step.",{},1789545626824]