Coach Doug - Testimonials

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"I have to give credit to Coach Doug's DVD. It keeps the practices fun and entertaining, and we've only played about 6 or 7 of the Practice Games so far, so there are a lot more we can play. The main thing I have taught so far is "puppy on a leash" and monster kicks with correct form. We lost the first game and I think the problem was that I hadn't ordered goals for us to use at practice. The goals came in for the week of practice for the second game so they kids had something to shoot at. Our second game was incredible. I wish you could have seen those little kids play. I haven't had one kid reach down and grab the ball with their hands where both teams we've played have had it happen to them. We also haven't had one kid score on our own goal. They know to turn the ball around and go in the right direction. So well, in fact, that I have only played the turn around game 1 time because they already know to do it. At first I thought the patches were just a gimmick, but after using them for a week and a half I can definitely see how and why they are important. The patches have gotten 1 kid to never use his hands (he used them all the time the first practice), gotten one kid to keep playing after he got hit in the stomach, and gotten one kid to play even though he didn't want to because he was too cold, and another to practice when he was scared to play. That last kid held the patch in his hand the entire practice. Now my son asks for patches for doing stuff around the house. ("Dad, I just picked up my toys, can I get a badge?") They are awesome. My son had to sit out this past game because he was sick and when I got home he asked me if everyone got a patch. He was disappointed that he wasn't able to get one for this game. Man, I could type about this for hours but in short: everything you recommend is great. I wish I could sing your praises from the mountaintops so that more people would buy your stuff. I'm 30 and I haven't played soccer since I was 12 and this is my first time to coach, but I feel like a master coach with these kids. The parents believe in me and you can see it in their faces. If we keep improving at this rate then next year we may have to move up a level. I'll send you a pic of our team when I can. Some of our smallest, youngest kids are our best players. Take care!"

Tommy, U6 coach, TX

I've watched all the clips of your video on Soccer Help and can't wait to get it. I am like the kids lining up for Harry Potter!! Don

Coach Doug – Great video. I loved the vignettes. Our little boys sat and watched most of it with me!!! Thanks!!! Coach Don

"I loved Coach Doug's video. I struggled coaching my son's U-6 until I watched his video. It made all the difference in the world. I now make all our U-6 coaches watch his video and they love it as well." Amy, coach and league administrator

"Doug, First of all, your site is a gold mine of information. This is my second season using the soccerhelp method and it is unbelievable how well it works. We just started a week ago and already my team is looking great!" U6 Coach

"I got the Coach Doug DVD last spring when I started coaching my 2 and 4 yr old sons. The youngest I had coached in the past was U9. Your DVD was a lifesaver! I am having so much fun with the kids and they are learning a lot." Coach A

"I have gotten so many compliments on my coaching. I always say I can't take the credit, and I tell them about the Coach Doug site. It is phenomenal. Thanks!" Amy

"I am inspired by Coach Doug's website. It has helped me immensely." --Coach Greg, TX, USA

"I recently ordered the Coach Doug DVD and I can't say enough about it. The exercises were great, the pschology was great and the attitude behind it was inspiring. It has tons of good ideas and I would recommend it to any beginning coach. The DVD is worth every penny (and more) that I paid for it." --Coach David, WA, USA

"My kids and I watched the Coach Doug DVD this weekend. It's awesome. It will make coaching much easier." Dan, first time U-4 coach

"Hey all - Coach Greg here. What an awesome site. I discovered Soccerhelp.com back about 6 years ago when my now 9 year old son started playing soccer and me coaching. I can tell you - there is nothing even close. That little soccer team back then, The Hurricanes - they were awesome!! Many of those kids still play soccer to this day and I run into many of them who still remember the good ol Hurricane days.

"Well, here it is several years later, and I now have a 3 year old daughter. We just started soccer and yep - I coach but not without Soccer Help and Coach Doug's infinite fun!! We play our 4th game of the season tomorrow and the improvement game after game is astonishing. Last weeks game - all I saw were elbows and smiles. Lots of big smiles.

Thanks Coach Doug - Thanks SoccerHelp - My children continue to benefit from your passion!

Play Hard - Play Fair - Have Fun!"

--Coach Greg

"I bought the Coach Doug U6 DVD - EXCELLENT - looking forward to coaching now." Michelle, Illinois

"Hello! I am the parent of a 4 yr old named Hannah who plays for an outstanding Coach that uses SoccerHelp. (Coach Doug Burgoyne, Little Lions – San Antonio, TX). My daughter has just flourished and become an amazing player under his guidance, and this is her very first time ever playing the game of soccer. Anyway, we are a military family and will be moving to San Diego in August. We want to continue our daughter's involvement in soccer for her age group and wanted to inquire if you knew of a SoccerHelp coach in the San Diego area. We have seen the other coaches and teams at many games recently, and Coach Doug's & SoccerHelp's techniques have put our kids leaps and bounds ahead of the rest in their playing AND with their enthusiasm. Most of all it is FUN while they are learning and that is what we are looking for in her next soccer program. We are so very sad to be leaving Coach Doug and his program, and we are hoping to find another SoccerHelp Coach as good as he is in the San Diego area. We would appreciate any recommendation you may have." --Monica Goodell (Mother of Hannah in Coach Doug's Video) July, 2006

Update on Hannah: September 2007

From Coach Doug:

"Have you actually seen the video yet? Hannah's profile is totally awesome, very motivating for her. Is she playing, how it is going?"

Coach Doug

From Monica, Hannah's Mom)

"Yes! She played last summer and went to a British Soccer Camp that was a fantastic experience for her. It was the first time she was back in an "every player has a ball at their feet" atmosphere and she just took to it like a fish in water. The camp was coached by young men and women from Britain and Scotland who were great fun and great motivators. The kids were on World Cup Teams and every day earned "world cup points" to be applied to the World Cup Tournament on the last day of camp. Hannah was on Team England, and they actually won the "world cup". :) I attached a picture of it since she was the first to get to hold it. She was supposed to be in the group of 4 & 5 year olds, but they moved her up to play with the 6 & 7 year olds!"

Note: They moved her up two years in age group, she was that good!

Hi Coach Doug,

I was so successful and found your methods so helpful as a first year coach that I can only imagine the results if our league adopted this methodology across our league.

Thanks,
Mark

"I am very impressed with Coach Doug's video and training. First and formost kuddo's I have been searching for a good training tool for coaches of U6 players, I think you have it!"
Geoff, Director of Recreational Soccer

"The SoccerHelp Coach Doug Program really worked well on two girls, who at the beginning of the year, I wouldn't have picked to play on my team. One cried every time she fell and the other just stood there. It was Doug's Video that gave me the tools and encouragement to train these two and help them obtain the confidence to play at a level beyond anyone's expectations. The examples Doug showed of the various personalities on his team were tremendous. Doug showed me that patience and fun works in the long run. These girls never scored a goal but they always stopped the ball and turned it around and helped the team. They were always in the right place at the right time. In the semi final, when it really counted, they performed and because of them the other team did not score a goal. The patch rewards and fun games worked extremely well for these girls. Thanks again and again."
Troy, U8, Member of Coach Doug's Site

"I bought the Coach Doug DVD and have probably watched it 5 times!"
John, U6 coach

"Received and reviewed the Coach Doug DVD. I love it, just what we are looking for."
Geoff, U6 Program Director, FL

Thanks for all your hard work putting this stuff together, it's really helped a lot.
Les

I subscribed to Coach Doug's website last summer for my first time coaching U4 and found it extremely helpful! Thanks!
Coach Jill

I had my first practice on Friday night using information that I learned on Coach Doug's website and what a difference it made. Last season, I felt lost and just plodded through it all and now I am more confident and it is a whole new environment. Best investment I have made for soccer.
Janet, TX

A couple of weeks ago I signed up for a year's subscription to Coach Doug's website and I am loving it so far.
Janet

I only played soccer as a very young boy, so I couldn't even really draw on my experience when I started coaching. I became interested in coaching when my kids wanted to play, and I saw how much fun they were having. I have to say though, that it wasn't nearly as much fun for them as it is now when I am coaching! I bought Coach Doug's DVD because I am coaching a 4-5-6 year-old team. Sometimes my older kids (8 and 7) help/practice with us, and they love the games because they are so much fun ("all we do in practice are drills", etc).
Rod

I've played soccer forever but I'm coaching my son's U6 team for the very first time this season. Of course I've been online hunting for tips on how to do it, and discovered your page. It took me about five minutes to figure out that it would be worth it to pay for a Coach Doug subscription, and it's taken about five minutes of me looking through the Coach Doug's site to know that I made the right decision. Thanks so much for providing this information, especially for newbies like me. I love soccer, I want my kids to love it to, and I'm glad there's people who can help make that happen. Thanks.
Alexander, Coach Doug Member

"Our son Nathan was extremely fortunate to have been introduced to soccer by Coach Doug Burgoyne. Starting at age 3 ½, Nathan played three soccer seasons with Coach Doug. Sadly, in the spring of 2006 we moved from Texas and reluctantly had to say goodbye to Coach Doug. As Nathan began playing soccer at his new home in Maryland, other parents frequently acknowledged his exceptionally strong soccer skills. Recently, while reminiscing about what he missed most about living in Texas, Nathan fondly recalled numerous “Coach Doug soccer games and his fun practices.” When asked what he specifically missed most about Coach Doug, Nathan replied, "Coach Doug was my best coach—his games were fun!" --Melanie and Bill Boyce, Maryland USA

(From David at SoccerHelp - as of this writing Doug is living in Europe. I got a chuckle out of this story. Doug really makes it fun and is a great coach.)

I had a new experience tonight.

After a month break, I started training again indoors while we wait for better weather. Tonight we started about 17:15 and finally stopped about 18:45. I have kids from 4 to 9, and I am going to break those up to different days because I can't train the smaller ones in the same way as the older ones.

But anyway, about 18:45 or so, there is this 4 year old off to the side in tears, his name is Alex, he's a good player, and getting better and better with me, I have had him for more than 6 months now. When he first came out he was too shy to play, and now he plays well. Well anyway, at 1845 he is in tears over to the side, so I go over to ask his parents what happened and they say: "nothing, he just doesn't want to go home" and then they proceed to tell me that he plays at home nearly every minute. They got him a puffy soft ball for the house so he doesn't break things, and he plays with it like for every waking minute... And they said that he would have stayed and played all night, and he was crying because they were making him go home to eat and sleep...

Coach Doug

"I recently purchased Coach Doug SoccerHelp Method of Coaching Ages 3, 4, 5 & 6 DVD and it arrived the day before our first practice. I only had time to watch 25 minutes of the DVD, but I had enough ammo to coach our first 45 minute practice. At the beginning of the practice 2 of the 8 kids were crying asking for their parents. By the end of the practice all of the kids were playing soccer and having a GREAT time. We played the carrot game, hickory dickory dock, follow the leader, and freeze. They LOVED it. My nephew is on the team and one of the parents said to my sister (without knowing she was my sister), "Wow you can tell he's done this before." This was my first time EVER to coach a soccer practice. I would recommend this video to ANY new soccer coach at this age level. I was one of the coaches who was asked to coach because they didn't have enough coaches for all of the teams. I can already tell how the techniques in the video are going to help my kids excel. BUY THIS DVD WITH CONFIDENCE! It made me look like a veteran coach and I watched the DVD 1 hour before our practice."
Tommy, TX, U5

"I require all of our U4 and U6 coaches to watch the Coach Doug DVD."
Steven, IL, Coaching Director, Rec Soccer

"Thanks for the great site."
Doug Moore

"Last fall I subscribed to the Coach Doug u6 program. I am now needing the u8 information in SoccerHelp Premium. I had a very enjoyable fall season with your help and I want to continue to improve as a coach and team leader. Thanks."
Jamie

"Thanks for the great work you guys do!"
Coach Travis

"Thank you for such a great site!! I've already started implementing the great ideas in my practices, and they are 110% better!!!!"
Olivia, TX

"First and foremost I want to thank you for all the information provided on SoccerHelp and a special thanks to Coach Doug. I have been coaching a rec league now for about 2 1/2 yrs. I started out with 3-5 Year olds with my Daughters team and then added 6-8 yr olds my next year when some of my kids moved up and I am now coaching 9-12 yr olds. With the practice games and information provided on SoccerHelp, I have managed to create an incredible atmosphere for my young players to really enjoy the game of soccer at the same time having almost every coach in the league stopping by once or twice a season to watch how I run my practices. When I get new additions to my teams I always take the ones that need the most work or the youngest of the group. By the time our first game is here we are a team that is unbeatable. Anyways I could go on for hours with this type of praise that the site has."
Coach Gregg GA, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Premium Member for 2 years

"I have used the soccer patches the last two seasons and this season as well with my U6 team. Everything the coaches have said in the testimonials are true. The patches and Coach Doug's practice games are the reason I am seeing great results on my team." Richard, posted on Facebook

David,

"I wanted to give you another story to put on the website. Last week we had a bye. The week before that we played a team with 2 HUGE kids. Before the game the coach came up to me and the ref and said, "Hey guys, we've only got 5 kids. The other 5 are at a baseball game. If we need to take one of the kids out, is it OK if we go 4 on 4? Of course, we said sure and that it would be no problem. However, immediately I knew 2 things from this conversation: 1. his kids aren't having fun at soccer practice because they are picking baseball over soccer and 2. if a kid had to come out of the game, it would have to be my son, or my nephew- and I have them playing on opposite halves and I don't want to seem like I'm favoring them. As the game continued, none of their kids got tired and had to come out because of that. However, during the 3rd quarter one of their smallest kids and my bigger kids got their legs tied up and ended up tripping and rolling over each other. My kid popped up and kept playing. The kid on the other team started crying and could not be comforted. The assistant coach on the other team was this kid's dad and he kept yelling, "you're ok! you're ok! go play! go play!" But the kid was having none of it. He stood on the field as close to their side line as possible crying and staring at his dad with eyes that said, "let me come out." At this point my son was in and I knew that if that kid eventually came out, my son would have to be the one who stopped playing. So I ran over to my tackle box full of patches, pulled out the red patch and started to run across the field. When I got to the other side the coach was looking away from me and when I said, "Hey coach!" (he was the kid's dad) he looked at me like, "why is the other coach over her talking to me?" I said to him,"hey man, I've got an idea. let me try this." And without waiting for him to reply I walked over to the kid and got down on his level and said to him, "Hey buddy, I give these patches out to my players who are brave. Do you know what brave means?" He was still crying and he looked up at me and shook his head no. (mind you, the game was still going on) I said, "brave means that when you get hurt and start crying, you stay in the game and keep playing. Do you want this patch for being brave?" He shook his head yes. So I said, "Well I'll give this patch to your coach so he can give it to you after the game, but you have to get back in that game and keep playing. Can you do that for me?" He shook his head yes. So I said, "well get in there and play!" Suddenly the tears stopped and he immediately turned around and ran back into the game and started playing. The other coach looked at me in awe because he had been trying for several minutes to get his son back in the game. After the game that kids mom came up to me personally and thanked me for what I had done. Also, after we shook hands that little kid ran up to me wanting to know where his patch was. I told him it was with his dad and he ran off straight for his dad.

I know this is a long email, but I had to tell you this story. I don't know if it works for what you have on the website because it's so long, but every word of it is true. Also, I just realized last week that my team consists of two 5 year olds and eight 4 year olds- and we are the best team in our league! Thanks again for everything you have done and please let coach Doug that he is just as responsible for this. I'll give you some more updates in the future. Take care."

TM, U6 coach

"Been a user of your site for years and it is great! Has helped all three of my boys, plus the hundred or so kids I've coached, so thanks!

I am a coordiantor for Pre-Kindergarten division. I'm a big proponent of Coach Doug (have his DVD). His site said I could copy 10 pages as long as I source it and don't take credit. Does that mean I can print 10 pages and give copies of that to my coaches? Please let me know if I am interpreting that correctly.

I'd like to whet the coaches appetites for the site and the price is so reasonable. Plus, the information helps children learn the game."

Thanks,
Ron, MD

"I am coaching my 5 year old daughter this year for the first time and this stuff is absolutely priceless."
Clint, KS

I've been coaching my 5-year old daughter's soccer team for 3 or 4 weeks now. I saw great success and improvement in use of skills by many of the kids in our last game this past Saturday (i.e. changing ball direction on command, stealing the ball, much more control dribbling, better scoring accuracy, no hand balls, no own goals, and even an intentional pass to share the ball. SoccerHelp turned me all around in my way of thinking about coaching little kids, and I think it's the best method I've seen.

Sincerely,
Coach Danny, CA

Coach Doug,

I've been impressed by your approach and methods since the moment I came across them. I coach U5 soccer and have been using exclusively your methods since I started in april 2010. They have lots of fun in practices as each of them is constantly with a ball at their feet. I'm also using practice patches as well as patches to reward in game efforts such as attitude, defense, assists, hustle and teamwork. Thanks.

I.M.

Doug,

I am so glad you decided to make the video. My son had turned three and we signed him up for soccer. The league did not have enough coaches so I volunteered. I'll tell you what I was scared because even though I have played soccer most of my life I had no clue about coaching and teaching the game, especially to eight 3 & 4 year olds. All of which was their first time playing soccer. Your video was such a blessing. When I first watched it it was like you made the video just for me because you covered all my fears about coaching this age group. I followed it to the "T" and the first season like you, we did good but far from dominating. But each season after that their skills improved and even though we have played the practice games a lot they still love doing them especially "everyone against the coach" and "hit the coach". Man, they loved those patches and still do. It has now become a competition between them to see who will get the most of a certain type of patch. Especially the "assist" patch, I use the lightning bolt patch for that one. Now that they have been doing this for three seasons they really understand what the assist is. I gave out 4 lighting patches last game. It was amazing.

Most of my team is going to be moving to U8 in the spring so I will be staying with them. I know I will have to adjust my practices to this age group but I see the patches staying for the time being.

Also, thank you for your service to our country. I was in the Marine Corps for eight years and I understand the sacrifice you have made to keep all of us here at home safe.

Richard

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