Freddie Ljungberg Quotes

I began training the young players at Nova Iguacu and at Boavista, and I enjoyed it. I had always wanted to be a coach, and this accelerated the process.

Ultimately, good players need to play and they don't always at a young age in England.

We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.

Of course that's Ajax development, giving young players a chance.

I think that's the philosophy of all top teams - to educate young, top players and to give them the possibility to play.

My first target is not to win: it's to develop young players with our work. That was my first idea when I started as a coach, because with this work come results.

HIL has provided a wonderful platform for Indian youngster to showcase their skills, gain experience of playing top players, and can be serve as a good supply line for the national team.

Our job is to find players younger, where they are able to play from 11 years old and grow up playing the game. Rather than, you start playing when you are 17 or 18 and you don't get the opportunity to do anything with your career.

The biggest mistake we usually tend to make with young players is over-coaching.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

We have to change the way we coach kids in the long-term so that by the time they hit 16, they are better than the Spanish, French, and German players. That is the big challenge, but the No. 1 criteria for me has always been how you are technically judged, from the age of eight, not size or power.

The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

I see differences in how I like to work with young players and how I like to give young players a chance maybe more than English managers.

The challenge for young players is always stepping into the next level in terms of how much faster the game is.

Just like all young players, there is a difference between being involved and just participating.