The culture of shouting in the world of football
The management of a group is always a complicated task, but the difficulty increases as the age of the group in question decreases. In soccer or sport in general, we see every weekend that a recurrent resource of the coaches towards this end is usually the shout; not only to transmit instructions, but also to correct, motivate ... Now, shout to teams of players in training Is it motivating? Is it ethical? It is effective?
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The shout culture in soccer
It is true that, in football, there is a certain "shouting culture", that is, that the players themselves often claim that trainer's character to be focused or motivated. However, the screams, by themselves, need not have any effect on the motivation of anyone from a biological point of view, but, in any case, quite the opposite (no one likes to be shouted). Therefore, the relationship between motivation (or intensity, or concentration) and screaming, would be learned.
Either way, that shouting culture does not seem to be accessible to any player . There are individual differences between all people, and also between children. Thus, we can find introverted children and extraverted children. The main difference between the two is physiological base activation.
Therefore, extraverts, with low physiological base activity, usually seek situations that involve high sensory stimulation , that they provide them with that amount of activation that their body lacks. Thus, they tend to have higher tenure to risk, a greater tendency to search for new sensations (travel, try new restaurants, meet new people), a preference for music at high volume, a tolerance to disorder, conflict ...
However, introverted people are at the opposite pole, with a high base activation and, therefore, external stimulation can collapse them, so they usually prefer controlled, predictable environments and they tend to avoid potentially stressful situations.
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The differences between introversion and extraversion
It should be noted that the examples set out here to define both behavioral trends are simplifications that aim to facilitate the understanding of the concepts, but that the personality is made up of many more factors that all interact with each other.
In any case, given this individual differentiation between people, we can infer that it will be between athletes and young athletes. Football, as a team sport that is , I should call the attention of the extroverts, and that's how we usually find it. However, if we analyze the different categories of grassroots football (from chupetín to juvenile) we observe how yes we can find greater heterogeneity among the younger ones, and a high tendency towards extraversion among the older ones.
We could argue that this is because, when boys and girls reach a certain age, they begin to choose their favorite extracurricular activities for themselves, thus manifesting their introvert "phenotype" ... but there could be more.
If we look at the generality, normally only a minority of introverted players who come to a youth team usually have a remarkable performance within your own team. In the elite, we find Zidane, Messi, Iniesta ... exceptional players, with this profile of introversion.
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Do not put obstacles to talent
We could come to think that, in their training process, these players already stood out at an early age, performing at high levels for their age and making fewer mistakes. Therefore, it is possible that these introverted players received fewer cries and, therefore, their physiological activation was not exceeded, and did not generate rejection or discomfort to attend the training.
If this were so, we could be faced with a natural selection of extroverts in football and grassroots sports, to whom a little stimulation in the form of shouts would not bother them, coming up against the hackneyed argument "is that if you can not stand being yelled at, it's good for football ", but what about the introverts who stay on the road? Could we be classifying the potential talent of great athletes ahead of time? Do they deserve to lose the multiple benefits that sports practice brings for their physical, mental and social growth?
We should still investigate the scientific literature to discuss whether the shouting has a motivating effect on the players but, what we do know today is that there are alternative motivating and communicative techniques that, perhaps, allow us to better adapt to the differences of our players, and that, in short, is the management of groups.
