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Dear Mr. Fraser,

I was very interested in your article on coaching the coaches which appeared in Sidelines last Sunday and I would like to tell you how I feel about the situation.

I am an engineering stu- dent at UBC and I work full- time to coach a baseball team (Cypress Park Little League, Major Div.)

I first got into coaching because of a community recreation course I took in high school which required 25 hours of community ser- vice. I found coaching to be rewarding and I have been doing it since then.

The background I have to draw on is seven years of playing experience (up through the Pony division where I played with the all- stars) with men I believe to have been excellent coaches. However, as I soon found out while coaching my first team, trying to coach skills from knowledge alone isn’t enough. I needed to know more about the psychology of my players in order to coach them effec- tively.

Experience can give you some ability in this area, but I felt a training program for coaches would help greatly.

Knowing there must be some program of this sort around, I contacted the Y and the recreation center. Aside from the 3 or 5 day

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courses which run midweek, there was only one course which was offered on weekends. Since I was busy with school or work, I signed up for the weekend course. However, a couple of weeks after I had registered, I received a call telling me that the course wasecancell- ed due to lack of interest.

I would still like to take a course in coaching because | want to help my kids pro- gress, but I think that if a program is set up, it should be voluntary. I know the problems our league had in getting coaches and if a man- datory program was in- troduced, I know some coaches wouldn't bother. | agree that the ideal would be for all coaches to be proper- ly trained, but I think that it’s even more important that the kids get a chance to play.

I would hope that the rec centers or the Y could come up with a good program because it is not feasible for

every league to set up their own clinics. I appreciate the views you express in Side- lines and I agree with most of them. Thanks for being so

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BERN, Switzerland (UPI) - Two lookalike West Ger- man footballers who pulled a swap and fooled a referee in- 10 giving the wrong one a booking were banned for

five and four matches respectively by the Euro pean Football Union,

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Brothers Karl-Heinz and Bernd Forster of Stuttgart pulled the tnck dumng a UEFA cup match against Cologne Nov. 26.

Karl-Heinz, cauhoned ina previous match, was about to be booked for a hard tackle. But as this would have meant his suspension from the return leg of the match. his brother Bernd

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took advantage of a mo- ment’s attention by the referee and stepped in to take his brother's place.

A UEFA spokesman said, “If they hadn't played this trick, Karl-Heinz would have missed just one match, and his brother none at all. Now they are missing a total of nine between them.”

The following players were all banned for one mat- ch: °° Zbigniew’ Boniek (Widzew Lodz). Iganacio Kortabarria (Real Sociedad), Michael van de Korput (Torino), Roberto Salvadoi (Valencia), and

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