While you are explaining the soccer rules to the young players, you will have to make sure that the way you are explaining is concise, clear, and to the point.
You can start with the first and the simplest rule of soccer that the team who scores more goals wins. Here, you may like to emphasise that it is not the player who score more goals wins – it is the team, not the player.
Such explanation will encourage your players to play as a team first. Another important thing in soccer rules is the various positions of the team.
You must explain them about the role and importance of the defenders, midfielders, forwards, and the soccer goalie of course.
As a youth soccer coach and while explaining about these positions, you may also like to make it clear that the players will be assigned specific roles by the coach and they have to play accordingly.
However, it is not mandatory. You have to train your players in a way, to perform at all positions, because soccer is a game, where things change very quickly and the players have to take instant decision.
The defender might find an opportunity during the game to score a goal. It does not mean that he or she should lose this opportunity, just because he or she is defender and not the forward.
