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Coaches

Upcoming Coaching Courses – Become A Licensed Coach!

RYSL, through the California Youth Soccer Association, offers an extensive licensing program for coaches. We support the position that in order to better teach our love of the sport to the players in the Redding Youth Soccer Legue, we need a progressive soccer coaching program that develops coaching skills at a rate compatible to that of the players. This also will lay the basic foundation of coaching uniformity between teams and coaches.

A complete explanation of the licensing levels and a full listing of local coaching courses can be found here.

CYSA District IX Coaching Course Information

Mandatory Background Checks For All RYSL Coaches

RYSL Coaches,

On behalf the Redding Youth Soccer League Board of Directors and all of the players we serve, thank you for donating your valuable time to coach our children so they are able to develop a continued love of our game. It is our sincere hope that your experience with the league will be a positive one and that the children you are working with will be benefited as well. The RYSL Board continues to strive to make our league the best it can be.

Perhaps our greatest responsibility to the children we serve is their safety. To that end the Board of Directors recently passed a motion that all coaches and assistant coaches would be required to submit their personal information to an independent background checking organization. The company RYSL has contracted with is MyBackgroundCheck.com. This company will be charged with checking for criminal records for each coach and will confidentially submit a “pass” or “fail” to the president of RYSL based on specified criterion developed between MyBackgroundCheck.com and the Redding Youth Soccer League. Each coach’s specific rights and obligations are detailed for your review as you enter your personal information via their web site.

Under the coaches area you will find a link to the MyBackgroundCheck.com web site. You should expect the data entry process to take about five minutes and you will be able to track your own background check as well. The background check will be completed within about three days. You will only be contacted by RYSL in the event your check comes back with any conflicts with the RYSL list of criterion.

We ask that you comply with this request at your earliest convenience and thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Sincerely,
Fred Bergstrom
President
Redding Youth Soccer League

******* Link to RYSL’s MyBackgroundCheck.com page *******

Suggested Reading

Fundamental Soccer Goalkeeping by Karl Dewazian

Fundamental Soccer by Karl Dewazian

The Coach’s Corner

Things You Should And Things You Should Not Do:

  1. Positive encouragement and instruction of your players from the sidelines (the coach’s box) is allowed. Negative criticism, hostility, abuse or anger are things you should not do. You are a role model and must set the example of good sportsmanship and insist upon it from your team.
  2. Cheering when the other team makes a mistake is bad. Cheering when the other team makes a great play is good.
  3. Never criticize the referee. It is a tough job. If an appealable mistake is made, talk to the referee and then the Director of Referees after the game. Remember, you are the role model and must set the standard for behavior. It is good to thank the referee and linesmen after the game.
  4. You should stay 2 steps back from the sideline during games so you don’t block the Assistant Referee’s view of the line.
  5. Don’t run up the score. It’s not good for either team if the game is a mismatch, but sometimes it happens. If your team gets 5 goals ahead, you should be a good sport & do one of the following:
    • Put your weakest scorers up front (use this as an opportunity to let them be forwards).
    • Try someone new in goal & at fullback
    • Pull a player off the field & “play short”. If it is still a mismatch, pull off another player.
    • Tell your players they must complete 5 consecutive passes before shooting
    • Tell them they can only take shots from outside the Penalty Box (i.e., practice chip shots, lofted shots at the top of the goal or power shots).