| If you are a football manager, the chances are you spend more time organising your players off the pitch, than you do on it. Well, you can take comfort that you are not alone. Research shows that, on average, a football manager spends between 1 and 2 hours each week ensuring they have the right number of players, in the right place, at the right time. A whopping 87% of managers said that this kind of football administration was the biggest headache of the job.
With the advent of the digital age, Football Managers are turning to new mediums to communicate with players, text messaging and emailing being the most popular. But do these methods of communication solve all problems? With an average squad of 16, managers still find themselves scrolling through inboxes to see who has and hasn't responded in hope they have enough (or not too many) players for the weekends game.
All this may soon change with a new Free Football Website that has been developed to help football managers significantly reduce the time they spend organising their team.
Canyouplayfootball.com is the world’s first personal online football organiser. It’s creator, Dave Evans, who has managed at both senior and junior level, takes up the story “Can you play? was developed after I shared similar experiences with other managers on the stress of juggling busy lives with the demands of football management.
Hours were spent each week contacting players about games, training and fixture changes and so on that it soon felt like I was shoe-horning my job around my football administration.
There must be a better way, I thought - but after extensive research I found there wasn’t so I gave up my day job to create a free football website designed by managers for managers. I wanted a system that was 1) simple and fun to use 2) gave managers back more time than invested 3) would remove the burden of football administration and 4) would provide a central online source of team information.
After a year of research and development, I believe we have developed that system. Designed to look and work like a real life personal organiser, the system allows managers to organise their team in SECONDS. You can send players messages directly from the organiser and view team sheets automatically built based on player availability. It even chases players who don’t respond! All that’s left for you to do is log-on on prior to the match, print your team sheet and you are ready to go. After the match, you can record your player and team stats and analyse their performance throughout the season.”
Can you play? also provides a vast resource of free football coaching drills uploaded and shared by other managers so it is a great place to find inspiration for your next training session. You can search for them by category (for example – attacking play, defensive drills etc) and by age group. The plans are rated by other football managers playing in different football leagues across the world.
So if you love football but hate football administration then check-out this free football website – www.canyouplayfootball.com |
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