National soccer coach Kyle Lightbourne has quickly discovered how frustrating life can be at the top.

With no matches scheduled for the national team in the foreseeable future, the former Coventry City striker has been put to task trying to keep an inactive squad motivated amid a host of other minor distractions.

Lightbourne hasn?t encountered all doom and gloom thus far as Bermuda?s involvement last fall in the Digicel Cup along with recent tours to the Island by Santos and New England Revolution have kept the national team from entering a completely dormant state.

But the inability to put his acquired football knowledge into practice on a regular basis has presented Lightbourne with his biggest challenge.

?The real frustrating part of the job is we don?t have a game every week,? Lightbourne told . ?There are some things I would like to work on with the team but we don?t have any games to play.

?It?s really frustrating because I haven?t been able to put in to practice things such as the psychological side of the game that I learned in England . . . whenever the players are not playing well, to keep them on their toes and different things like that.

?So it has been difficult trying to put these things into practise with all the stop and go of the national programme.?

Only last weekend Lightbourne and assistant national coach Paul Scope attended a coaching seminar at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

Lightbourne, whose short-term contract as national coach expires in May, said he was keen to stay on as coach of the national team.

?There have been talks over it. But we will have to wait and see what happens and then take it from there,? he said.

?So far I think I?ve only achieved about 40 percent of the things I had hoped to achieve with the team. There?s a lot of things I still would like to do but at the moment I?m just not able to do it.?

Lightbourne obtained a UEFA B Licence in the UK months before succeeding Kenny Thompson as national coach last September while last week he took part in the two-day coaching seminar, along with Scope, in the US.

?It was a good seminar and I really enjoyed it,? he said. ?It was good from a coaching standpoint as it provided me with an opportunity to reassess myself to ensure I?m travelling along the right lines.

?Another reason why I wanted to attend the seminar was to pick up one or two ideas and hopefully now I can put them into practice and then go from there.?

The national team were due to resume training this week at the National Sports Centre.

Lightbourne, meanwhile, has extended the net in his search of new talent and is expected to announce a new list of players in the near future.

?I don?t want those who are now in the national team to become complacent and think they will always have their spots,? he warned. ?Therefore, I would like to have a look at as many players as possible because there are others out there with potential.?