Every athlete whether it is a beginner or an advanced professional should listen to and know how to take criticism from others. Not everyone can cope with that, for someone it takes longer, because everyone has different personality. The more the athlete is older the more he is experienced, so he knows how to deal with the criticism faster than the beginner who still doesn´t know the technique properly and is constantly under pressure and lectured for something.
We have experienced many times that mainly coach is criticizing how you played the ball, received, missed it and so on. When the children are starting with the sport the most of the parents are the biggest critics even if some of them are not so common with the concrete sport. Parents mean it good because they want to make good athletes from you but everything has its own limits even though every advice is good.
If we want to grow with sports and move somewhere we have to know how to separate and accept criticism which will push our performance higher.
When the coach only criticizes you and you don´t hear words of praise from him you need to know if he means it that he wants to make something from you and get as much as possible from you or he is just relieving his anger on you, because he doesn´t like you. Not always does the coach have it easy when every player in the team does something different than they were told in training and how the coach wants it. The coach can go crazy once in a while too even if it should not happen but this is the sport, it teaches you how to handle with unexpected situations, whether you are in training or in the match.
Every coach if he wants to teach you something has to constantly admonish and correct you for the things which you are doing wrong whether technically or you don´t think in the training or match in the concrete situations the way you should be thinking and handling situations. If the coach only praises you, your self-confidence will definitely grow and makes you feel better, but is the constant praise an advantage? Every player has his reserves and nobody does everything on 100% and there is always something to improve, that’s why when the coach tells you something you need to accept it and learn from it. Criticism, which has its head and heel, is the right one. I mean that when a coach told you something before and you are still doing it the opposite way then there is nothing to be surprised about, when he raises his voice. Or if there are situations which you haven´t talked about before and the coach yells at you but then on the first timeout he explains it to you why he wants you to play it like that. The criticism is needed but there is also needed an explanation.
When he is only absurdly screaming on you and you don´t understand him much just try to ask him what he meant, so you can find common ground. There is needed a constant talking about the situations which have appeared, let it explain them to you, so you know how to handle them in the future. It will be easier for you to play and train if you will be on the same wave with your coach. Don´t be afraid to ask if there is something new for you and you don´t understand.
The right criticism is important for every single athlete, so he can move forward if he wants to achieve something and you have to know when the coach means it with you seriously and wants to make a future star out of you.
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