How do people end up doing private soccer coaching?

[Anonymous]

My husband's brother played a lot of soccer growing up. When he's around, he likes to spend time with my son working on soccer. This weekend someone approached BIL, when he was playing with my kid, about coaching their kid. I think they assumed they were seeing a paid private coaching session.

So, now BIL, who is young and could use some extra money, is asking me if people really pay other people to go to the park and play soccer with their kids, and if so does he need a certification or something? How does this happen?

[Anonymous]

That’s exactly how you do it. No carts needed. If parent thought BIL was doing the right thing, he should take him up on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s exactly how you do it. No carts needed. If parent thought BIL was doing the right thing, he should take him up on it.

So, I do think that BIL does a fantastic job, and of course I think he's a very safe person for my kid to be around. But I think that based on knowing him for 15 years.

I sort of can't imagine walking up to a stranger that I watched for 30 minutes and asking them to do something 1:1 with my kid. Is that just me? Am I paranoid?

So, how much do people charge for this?

[Anonymous]

Look into coach up and similar websites. Some charge upwards of 100-200 per session.

[Anonymous]

I pay $80/hour to our team coach for privates, but he’s a professional coach with various degrees, certificates and years of experience.

I’d say word of mouth without references, coaching experience might land him at $30/40 and hour. If he started assistant coaching and built a resume, he could get closer to $60/75 an hour.

[Anonymous]

He should check out coachup or other website that would do screening and capture reviews to help him find clients

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pay $80/hour to our team coach for privates, but he’s a professional coach with various degrees, certificates and years of experience.

I’d say word of mouth without references, coaching experience might land him at $30/40 and hour. If he started assistant coaching and built a resume, he could get closer to $60/75 an hour.

How do you get an assistant coaching position?

I have no idea how interested he is, or if he was just flattered. He seems to enjoy coaching my kid, and my kid seems to get better from working with him.

[Anonymous]

I went to a random skateboarder to teach my kid to skateboard. My dh thought i was crazy. I just told him to make sure he came to the park with us for protection.

Thats kind of how it works sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to a random skateboarder to teach my kid to skateboard. My dh thought i was crazy. I just told him to make sure he came to the park with us for protection.

Thats kind of how it works sometimes.

So, I guess I assumed that since my kid was alone with BIL, he was proposing that his kid be alone with BIL? Maybe that was my imagination, and he was planning on staying to watch. That would seem much more reasonable to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to a random skateboarder to teach my kid to skateboard. My dh thought i was crazy. I just told him to make sure he came to the park with us for protection.

Thats kind of how it works sometimes.

So, I guess I assumed that since my kid was alone with BIL, he was proposing that his kid be alone with BIL? Maybe that was my imagination, and he was planning on staying to watch. That would seem much more reasonable to me.

Definitely! At least initially depending on the age. And to assure he was getting his moneys worth.

[Anonymous]

Some travel coaches especially at some clubs like Arlington and McLean are phoning it ROFL... You may need a coach to help your kid especially if you were a non athlete

[Anonymous]

how people get started in coaching:

1. you have played soccer at some level. The more experience you have playing and your own training that you did as a player and knowledge of the game, the further along your starting point is when you get into coaching.

2. you go get some kind of a coaching license (grass roots license through VYSA is fine to start). If you played at a fairly high level, do the 2 required grass roots modules and then do the D license. That's really the minimum to get into "travel" soccer where it's paid.

3. If you just have the grass roots modules, volunteer coach a recreational team to learn how to coach. unpaid but you learn. OR be an assistant on a travel team.

4. If you get your D, then you can head coach a lower level travel team (bottom tier at a big club) at whatever age group you think you work best with based on your personality. You'll have to learn from another coach with more experience.

5. At some point, your sessions will have to teach individual technique. As you get more experience with that, you learn how to work with individual players.

6. during the offseason one or a few of your current or former players might approach you or ask for more training. great experience.

7. Then you can get into setting up a website, word of mouth, do a little social media, get on CoachUp, and start getting some training going. It helps to establish yourself in a club so people know who your are, and then you start to develop a reputation based on how good your teams are and how good the players are on your teams.


Or you could go in a different direction and not coach teams, just do training. Learn through experience and looking stuff up on Youtube.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I pay $80/hour to our team coach for privates, but he’s a professional coach with various degrees, certificates and years of experience.

I’d say word of mouth without references, coaching experience might land him at $30/40 and hour. If he started assistant coaching and built a resume, he could get closer to $60/75 an hour.

What type of degrees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I pay $80/hour to our team coach for privates, but he’s a professional coach with various degrees, certificates and years of experience.

I’d say word of mouth without references, coaching experience might land him at $30/40 and hour. If he started assistant coaching and built a resume, he could get closer to $60/75 an hour.

What type of degrees?

not required

[Anonymous]

I work with my kids all the time at the local fields and have been approached several times by parents asking how much I charge. I'm not a professional trainer and not looking for an extra job other than training/spending time with my kids, but played D3. I just go off stuff from my playing days and also picked up some ideas online that I think my kids need to work on that look like engaging drills.

I don't think there is anything wrong with approaching someone you see working with a player, especially when they look to be doing good work, but I would rather get referrals through my team or network of people they know and trust. I'm more impressed with how they interact with kids and the training sessions they put together than some certificate. I've seen plenty of "A" coaches who suck at training kids.