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Michael Owen speaking on The FA's Developing Forwards course
Be clever with feedback
Coaches should put on sessions that encourage players to work on their weaknesses but without just telling them to ‘do this and do that’, especially in front of their mates. Have a one on one instead and build a relationship where you can give constructive feedback: "You’re doing great. If you want to be the best you need to work on these things"
"Give players’ problems to solve, give them situations so that they can actually make decisions themselves, and question their decisions after that"
Don’t always play best v best
When I was a kid I would play against some teams and score six or seven goals in a game. It meant I could practise different ways of finishing: 1 on 1s, dinking, placing. I could develop composure because I knew another chance would come along in a minute or two. I didn’t have to snatch at opportunities.
Michael Owen Former Liverpool, Real Madrid and England forward, Michael Owen, is renowned as one of England's most prolific ever strikers, scoring over 320 goals for club and country.
After bursting onto the scene in 1997 as a precocious 17-year old Owen went on to score 179 goals for Liverpool during the following seven seasons.
Matt Pain is The FA’s Research Manager for Psychology and lead tutor for the Psychological Corner.
Since joining in 2008, Matt has developed a psychological model - the
5 C’s - that outlines the ideal psychological skills of the very best football players and gives coaches an understanding of how they can help their younger players work towards developing those qualities in practices.
In 2004, he joined La Liga giants, Real Madrid, for a reported £8 million where he scored 13 goals in 36 appearances before returning to the Premier League with Newcastle United a year later.
Subsequent moves to Manchester United and Stoke City followed before he announced his retirement from the game at the end of the 2012-13 season.
At international level his 40 goals from 89 appearances established him amongst the world’s most clinical strikers, with his strike against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup a defining moment.
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