How to Establish Leadership on Your Football Team

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Want to know how establish leadership on your football team? Here's your chance to find out.

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Understand, leaders emerge, they are not usually chosen.

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   A good leader can’t be handpicked, he must be eager to do the job without being asked.
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   Peer review of who players believe their leaders are, is a good starting place.
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   A team vote of a leadership council or a unity council of (x) number of players who might be potential leaders.
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   Pushing players to their max capacity usually aids in developing leadership.
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   You've got to maintain the optimism and tenacity spirit for all the team, in all circumstances, you've to be strong in the rain, so they can trust you when the sun rises up.
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   When coaches demand perfection of players and send them back to do it right, leaders emerge and assist with telling their peers to push through and do it right.
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   Good leaders lead by example, but great leaders feel the thrill of a challenge by a constructive spirit of discontent.
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   Expect from yourself what you expect from your team. If you are making everyone else work hard, but you are slacking off, you'll be looked at as a jerk, not as a leader.
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   Keep a level of tolerance with every player, and identify each one's strengths and weaknesses, so you can make the best of each game.
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    Give it all you've got.