What other sports does your soccer player play?

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They used to play basketball, baseball, swim, and more. As they have gotten older: flag football and golf.

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Anonymous wrote:Basketball helps round out a GK's athleticism, jumping, speed, stamina, and ability. Our GK is a thinker and one of their great strengths is athleticism and tactical communication with their team. They PREVENT goals which is a basic tenant of Basketball defense and a stat (as a GoalKeeper parent) I feel is woefully overlooked in soccer. Anyone can be the Keeper in a Futsal game, only great athletes can be the Keeper in a Soccer match or an amazing defensive basketball player.

Wow - totally disagree on that point. Not taking anything away from basketball, but I think Futsal is great for keepers in terms of learning when, and how, to come off their line, since it happens a lot more in Futsal than in soccer. Keepers, also, are going to face a lot more shots over the course of a game in Futsal
- certainly not nearly as large of a goal to defend, but a lot of quick reactions vs point blank shots.

No. Futsal actually teaches really bad habits for keepers. Stick with basketball, indoor track or swim/dive at most of the schools with winter sports.

What bad habits? Not a useful post if you don’t explain.

They misjudge goal size when the play real soccer, they emphasize deflections and punches over catching and possessing, they avoid the ground/dive game because it hurts, they learn to turn side on to protect themselves from the harder ball instead of proper leg and body position for protection, they shorten their stance because the floor is slippery and dramatically reduce their stopping range,… I could go on and on. The people pushing futsal are lying if they say keeper skills translate to the real game.

[Anonymous]

Baseball, flag football, and tennis.

[Anonymous]

Are your kids willingly doing these sports and are you taking them all to their practices? Or is this all informal play with buddies? One kid has no desire to play any other sport even though I think he would do better in cross country than soccer. And another kid will likely excel in whatever sport he plays although he has no desire to do work on anything but soccer, apart from playing with buddies in the park during summers. I don’t think we have the bandwidth or time to take our 3 kids to other sports or have them add on to their current activities. Although apart from soccer, they take martial arts.

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Anonymous wrote:Basketball helps round out a GK's athleticism, jumping, speed, stamina, and ability. Our GK is a thinker and one of their great strengths is athleticism and tactical communication with their team. They PREVENT goals which is a basic tenant of Basketball defense and a stat (as a GoalKeeper parent) I feel is woefully overlooked in soccer. Anyone can be the Keeper in a Futsal game, only great athletes can be the Keeper in a Soccer match or an amazing defensive basketball player.

Wow - totally disagree on that point. Not taking anything away from basketball, but I think Futsal is great for keepers in terms of learning when, and how, to come off their line, since it happens a lot more in Futsal than in soccer. Keepers, also, are going to face a lot more shots over the course of a game in Futsal
- certainly not nearly as large of a goal to defend, but a lot of quick reactions vs point blank shots.

No. Futsal actually teaches really bad habits for keepers. Stick with basketball, indoor track or swim/dive at most of the schools with winter sports.

What bad habits? Not a useful post if you don’t explain.

They misjudge goal size when the play real soccer, they emphasize deflections and punches over catching and possessing, they avoid the ground/dive game because it hurts, they learn to turn side on to protect themselves from the harder ball instead of proper leg and body position for protection, they shorten their stance because the floor is slippery and dramatically reduce their stopping range,… I could go on and on. The people pushing futsal are lying if they say keeper skills translate to the real game.

+1 if your kid is a soccer GK do not let them play futsal keeper it takes months of work to undo these habits. Do another sport to take a mental/physical break and round out athletic qualities.

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Anonymous wrote:Are your kids willingly doing these sports and are you taking them all to their practices? Or is this all informal play with buddies? One kid has no desire to play any other sport even though I think he would do better in cross country than soccer. And another kid will likely excel in whatever sport he plays although he has no desire to do work on anything but soccer, apart from playing with buddies in the park during summers. I don’t think we have the bandwidth or time to take our 3 kids to other sports or have them add on to their current activities. Although apart from soccer, they take martial arts.

OP here, my kid attends a school where the kids pick a sport each season, instead of PE. So, he has to play something. Which is fine, he loves to play all sorts of things, but I'm not driving him to practice, it's part of the school day. He's a kid who would happily play as many things as I let him though, which is why we picked that school.

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Anonymous wrote:The question should be….What other sport does your MLS Next or ECNL player do?

Hockey

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Anonymous wrote:Are your kids willingly doing these sports and are you taking them all to their practices? Or is this all informal play with buddies? One kid has no desire to play any other sport even though I think he would do better in cross country than soccer. And another kid will likely excel in whatever sport he plays although he has no desire to do work on anything but soccer, apart from playing with buddies in the park during summers. I don’t think we have the bandwidth or time to take our 3 kids to other sports or have them add on to their current activities. Although apart from soccer, they take martial arts.

OP here, my kid attends a school where the kids pick a sport each season, instead of PE. So, he has to play something. Which is fine, he loves to play all sorts of things, but I'm not driving him to practice, it's part of the school day. He's a kid who would happily play as many things as I let him though, which is why we picked that school.

I’m the PP. That is really cool! The kids could probably practice other team sports held at the school but I don’t think we’d be able to take them to weekend games. That said, my kids do have a once a week trainer as well in addition to martial arts but that’s just done at home and the martial arts is also a once a week 10 min drive. So very low time commitment from the parents! I do know a number of kids who play soccer and do swim. Swim seems like a big commitment as well like soccer so I marvel at parents ability to make it happen. I guess if my kids had more of an interest, maybe I’ll try to make it happen. But if they’ve no interest, not gonna bother.

[Anonymous]

For private school? Whatever they want! There are only 100-140 people per grade and half are the other gender.
We did soccer in the fall, swim in winter and lax in the spring.

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Anonymous wrote:Are your kids willingly doing these sports and are you taking them all to their practices? Or is this all informal play with buddies? One kid has no desire to play any other sport even though I think he would do better in cross country than soccer. And another kid will likely excel in whatever sport he plays although he has no desire to do work on anything but soccer, apart from playing with buddies in the park during summers. I don’t think we have the bandwidth or time to take our 3 kids to other sports or have them add on to their current activities. Although apart from soccer, they take martial arts.

Willingly going. I wouldn’t sign her up otherwise. We carpool to practices whenever possible and it’s always drop off and pick up. I also have more than one kid. She’s another GK who always plays house basketball. She likes it but I see after reading these posts how it’s helpful for soccer. She’s never played futsal.

[Anonymous]

Winter basketball and spring track. Both have greatly benefitted her soccer game as well!

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Anonymous wrote:For private school? Whatever they want! There are only 100-140 people per grade and half are the other gender.
We did soccer in the fall, swim in winter and lax in the spring.

Not our private school. 259 all male per grade and sports teams are notoriously hard to make. You can be a standout travel player and still get cut. Many D1 players, and pros to come out of the school.

There are just a tiny number of 'no cut' sports. Even athletic kids have to resort to sports outside of the school unless it's one of the few no-cut sports.

We had 120 kids come out for 22 spot team.

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Anonymous wrote:For private school? Whatever they want! There are only 100-140 people per grade and half are the other gender.
We did soccer in the fall, swim in winter and lax in the spring.

Not our private school. 259 all male per grade and sports teams are notoriously hard to make. You can be a standout travel player and still get cut. Many D1 players, and pros to come out of the school.

There are just a tiny number of 'no cut' sports. Even athletic kids have to resort to sports outside of the school unless it's one of the few no-cut sports.

We had 120 kids come out for 22 spot team.

Which school is this may I ask?

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Anonymous wrote:For private school? Whatever they want! There are only 100-140 people per grade and half are the other gender.
We did soccer in the fall, swim in winter and lax in the spring.

Not our private school. 259 all male per grade and sports teams are notoriously hard to make. You can be a standout travel player and still get cut. Many D1 players, and pros to come out of the school.

There are just a tiny number of 'no cut' sports. Even athletic kids have to resort to sports outside of the school unless it's one of the few no-cut sports.

We had 120 kids come out for 22 spot team.

Which school is this may I ask?

If this is the DC area, it's got to be Gonzaga, which is the largest all boys option.

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Anonymous wrote:For private school? Whatever they want! There are only 100-140 people per grade and half are the other gender.
We did soccer in the fall, swim in winter and lax in the spring.

Not our private school. 259 all male per grade and sports teams are notoriously hard to make. You can be a standout travel player and still get cut. Many D1 players, and pros to come out of the school.

There are just a tiny number of 'no cut' sports. Even athletic kids have to resort to sports outside of the school unless it's one of the few no-cut sports.

We had 120 kids come out for 22 spot team.

Which school is this may I ask?

If this is the DC area, it's got to be Gonzaga, which is the largest all boys option.

Yeah, I was thinking that too. Or Dematha but I don’t think Dematha is as big, abt 200 per grade.