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When coaching youth football it is important that you understand the importance of special teams. Your kick coverage team is not the one you load up all your non-starters on, that is a recipe for disaster. Open space tackling is something most of your non-starters don’t do very well in most cases. In my book “Winning Youth Football a Step by Step Plan” we give you much safer and player development friendly methods of getting those kids playing time, but it surely isn’t on the kickoff team.

A simple way to force the ball carrier to the inside would be to position your boxing ends in positions that would force the ballcarrier to the middle of the field or better yet to one side of the field, so you have less field to defend.

The number is used by match officials for identifying the players. The respective shirt numbers of each player of the club have to be registered with the football governing body of the country. Changing shirt numbers is generally not encouraged. The crest of the club is printed on the top left or right hand corner of the shirt. Players are expected to fell motivated and inspired every time they see the crest. Many players, after scoring a goal have the habit of kissing the club crest, in order to show their love for the club to the fans.

The main necessity of kits is for one person to identify his team mate on the football pitch. Matches are played on huge pitches, in all kinds of weather, in front of tens of thousands of fans. In such situations, identifying team mates by looking at their faces or shouting out for the ball would be impractical. Also, football is played at such a high speed and players don’t have the time to look at each and every face before deciding who to pass to. All these aspects make kits a part and parcel of football.