Gary Fixter - Gary Fixter is a professional football coach

It is very important to keep in mind and to have order when it comes to rest time in football. Before the game, a meeting must be held with the medical staff, physical therapists, trainers and assistants for the correct management of rest time in football. Each group of people should be assigned their specific time:

Soccer break time methodology

As we have already seen, criticism is not always well received and generally does not have a positive rebound effect on the group or player but rather the opposite. That is why, at the methodological level, there are techniques to carry out a talk with critical but camouflaged aspects, within a positive feedback. This technique is known as “sandwich feedback”. It is a technique that consists of giving negative feedback between two positive feedbacks, such that:

1. Start with a positive comment or praise to get the footballer focused and relaxed.

2. Next, make the criticism, the central comment of the talk.

3. End with a positive comment. It can be a few words of encouragement or improvement, to restore confidence to the athlete and to end the talk in a positive environment.

In addition to prior planning to optimize our resources, we must take into account a series of considerations and a way of acting:

Considerations

* Check errors that occur constantly.

* Memorize positive and negative actions to manage them correctly for the good of the group.

* Organize from the bench, the chat, your message and how to deal with the information.

* Think and assess what the coach's players are going to expect in terms of addressing them in the chat as seen in the first half.

* Have an optimal location where everyone can see the coach.

* Avoid dispersion and other people's noises so that there is rest and attention.

* Give players a rest period for themselves.

* Assess the use of images and videos that the analyst or external assistant may have sent us and whether its effect will be positive.

* Enter everyone in the locker room, including substitute players. If any substitute player is to substitute, they will listen to the tactical talk and their participation in the collective tactical development and then go on to warm up.

Way of acting:

* If a substitution is made for technical reasons, indicate it to the player who is going to be substituted first, personally and privately. Encourage him and not blame the performance.

* Distinguish between specific errors and repetitive errors.

* Correct actions in which the consequences were not negative. If you want to correct any action with negative consequences, be careful when transmitting the information and especially if it is individualized.

* Clearly establish the training and tactical development to follow in the second part.

* Emphasize the positive aspects made and your ability to repeat them.

* Ask for attention and concentration for small details, thus eliminating misdirections due to lack of concentration.

* Ask for attention to the players who were appointed assistants (due to their tactical understanding or closeness to the technical area), so that they are alert to possible variations in training and tactics.

* Make positive comments to introverted players, require the players with the most weight in the team to maintain the group's motivation until the end.

Conclusions about rest time in soccer

* Previous planning of the rest time in soccer is necessary to optimize resources.

* A certain period of time must be left at the beginning of the break for players to relax.

* During the rest period we must try to recover the footballer as much as possible. For this we can help ourselves with the different nutritional and physiotherapeutic measures that we have.

* The tactical talk should include 2 or 3 negative aspects to correct and 2 or 3 positive aspects to enhance. Individual concrete aspects must be given privately.

* The use of new technologies (video, images) should be valued in the break.

* You must know the effect that the use of new technologies will have on the workforce to avoid an undesired effect.

* You have to synthesize the talk being brief, concise and precise in the explanations.

* The tone of voice or the way of addressing the players is key during the break. It should be regulated together with the content depending on the circumstances and based on previous experiences.