Bino Barbara talks about the challenges of training

The CAB's Official Site reached the address with Bino Barbara, who has under his responsibility the echelon of Mini-12, a task he shares with coach Miguel Pimenta. To the Friends' Website, Coach Bino talked about the start of the season and the vicissitudes of being integrated into a Training project. Here we record your words: How's the start of the season going? A quieter start, for three reasons. First, there was gender separation in the Mini-12, which removes from the direct supervision of the Mini-12 Male coaches a team with more than twenty players. Secondly, because we are working with a group that was established and we already know. Third, because we divide the echelon into proficiency levels, which makes it easier to work content and frame new players. As a coach, what message do you try to convey to the athletes to your responsibility? First of all, we seek to convey personal qualities, with rules for all, and which likewise have to comply with them. As far as the competition is concerned, there are two messages. On the one hand, it is about being competitive and competent. We can only accept defeat if the other team is really better than ours. We can't accept losing because we were incompetent. The other message is respect for the referees and the opposing team, because the game only makes sense with the other team, because we need them to compete and alone we are worthless. Is it important for the Education Officers to be involved in the training process? It's central! We need your commitment to the team to achieve more responsibility and commitment. Responsabilizing and demanding the maximum of players only happens if the education officers and coaches pull to the same side. What is the great purpose for this time? First, that players like basketball and that every day they want to go back to the pavilion. Then we seek to develop the capabilities and work on the contents we plan for the Mini-12 level, so that they can succeed in the future. Finally, there is the competition, which we would like to win, but in this step we look more at the development of the young than at the result, which must be a consequence and not an end. How do you reconcile the mission of training children in basketball and the natural desire to win the competitions in which you participate? They're different things. In training and competition, we always look for our players to follow the rules and respect their colleagues, opponents and judges. Attitudes and values are always present! About the outcome of the game, that's what I said on top. There's the urge to win, but at this level, we don't work to prepare the weekend game with this or that opponent. The work is continuous and we know what we want to do. That is, we do not want to win in Mini-12 at all costs, compromising the future of each player. Winning is a consequence of the work and development of players. We always tell our children and education officers that the work done in training should be put into practice in the game, and if we fail because we were incompetent, we will hold them accountable. If we lose because the others were naturally better, we'll work to catch them.