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obssessed with DS' U7 soccer
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Anonymous
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Actually, I use calculus regularly.
And, it is glorious to watch my child on an athletic field. My child is joyful (which makes me joyful). We had an experience like 10:54. Competitive soccer gave my child an escape from the jocks at school - unpleasant children, but his only other sports outlet. OP - I can tell you that you need to chill, though. Some of the respondents to your post sound like very unpleasant people and you don't want to become one of them. My kid was a star on the rec field, and is a good solid mediocre on his travel squad - didn't make it the first time. Finding the right size pond for your "fish" is important. |
Anonymous
| Educators debate this sort of thing all the time. What's to understand with athletics? Some children gravitate toward them. It's not rocket science. |
Anonymous
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There is nothing wrong with athletics. It should be part of a balanced education and gave give a child many valuable lessons for life.
The issue here is the obsession for travel sports not just with soccer but other sports as well. The pressure that comes from pursuing the same sport year round and that if you don't, you won't make the team. The idea that eating dinner in the car 3x's a week is good for kids. The interrupted weekends and separation from family to go to tournament after tournament because if you say no, your kid might be benched. The countless thousands of dollars invested in team fees and travel costs. The summer trip to some country deemed as "necessary" For all those that said that travel soccer was a good outlet for their kids, great. But for every kid that manages it well, many others don;t but feel they have no choice because we as adults have decided that the only way to for the "kids" to be competitive is to succumb to this insanity. |
Anonymous
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- I know players who didn't play soccer for a season or a year and they make the team, good travel teams.
- In six years of travel soccer, we have NEVER eaten dinner in the car, not once. - A commitment is a commitment, you go along with it or expect to be benched. If my player gives up Columbus Day weekend and yours doesn't, why should your player not be benched the following weekend? Most teams do two tourneys a season. - It's not inexpensive. - One was enough. We're turning down our second. Our club does not allow coaches to describe these tournaments as necessary. They are optional all the way. - Adults who push their children to do things that can't or do not want to do are doing their children a disservice, agreed. It's not insanity if your player makes the team, thrives on the team! |
Anonymous
Ugh, not you again!!! |
Anonymous
| I wrote that, and I am thrilled to know that my comment is responsible for the decline in US education. |
Anonymous
OP here - it's as glorious as when he first paddled his bike all by himself in circles in front of our house just before he turned five. he hasn't had a glorious moment socially and academically yet but if/when it finally comes i'd enjoy it just as much. not sure why it's hard for a fellow parent to understand. |
Anonymous
| PP here. Another plus is players can ref when they're older. The money's not bad! $22 an hour! |
Anonymous
| will tomorrow's games get canceled? i'm so worried.... |
Anonymous
| OT but my kid played against an all boys U7 team - the players were all bigger and taller then most 6/7-yos i've seen. yup, our team got crushed and our best players didn't even touch the ball. i heard that the coaches made it clear to the parents they're grooming these boys to play travel soccer. that is extreme. |
Anonymous
| 10:46 Agreed. (Not OP, I'm a PP.0 Most rec teams spring from a school or a neighborhood and there's a range of talent and skills. My son refs youth soccer and we can tell who might have travel potential at U-8 - U - 10 but we've never seen a team that is loaded with talent, there's a range, as it should be with rec. If that's a trend with one team, everyone will know it and not take their dominance too seriously since it's not in the spirit of most rec teams. |
Anonymous
What league are you playing in. Stoddert has rules about lopsided scores - when a team is up by more than three goals they should start pulling players off the field to give the other team a chance. If you're in Stoddert you should have your coach complain to the age group commissioner if the other team didn't follow this. Stoddert will also have a team which consistently crushes others play in a higher age division, which helps both sides (because "grooming for travel" won't work if you're not playing against real competition). |
Anonymous
| 11:07 Pulling players off? (Also, Stoddert's a club!) |
Anonymous
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I know Stoddert's a club, but parents of young rec players often refer to it as a rec league...
Yes, Stoddert's clear policy for rec is that if one team is up by more than three goals, they need to do something to even things out. It could be switching offensive and defensive players around (probably not effective at U7), it could be requiring that three seperate players touch the ball before you can score, it could be pulling a player or two off. The idea is that this is rec, it should be fun, and nobody benefits from a really lopsided score. |
Anonymous
| Right I get the idea, we played Stoddert rec for six years, I didn't recall ever pulling players off the field. Thanks. |