Hot takes on your soccer season

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worst team ever in my opinion. My son was brought up from the 2nd team because he was supposed to be leveling up. He ended up being a benchwarmer the whole season and wasn’t allowed to go back to second team to play because they filled his spot. First team is competitive and in my opinion kids are very mean to my son and other smaller players. Coach is starting his own club, practices will be 1.5 hours away, and he’s taking the whole team with him and my son doesn’t want to go but doesn’t want to stay with all new kids either so we have to go. Environment is cultish in my opinion and kids are pushed too hard, tons of injuries and 3-4 hour practices daily for 11 year old boys. You don’t attend daily practice, you don’t play. My son has had to give up all activities for this and it’s been a tough year. How we are facing all new uniforms, fees, tournaments and more I don’t know. Plus he starts middle school in the fall and it will be stressful. Too much.

Real talk- id rather light my money on fire and never have my kid play soccer again. Literally do anything except for that.

[Anonymous]

Well that’s what it feels like. There are WAY worse stories I could tell but can’t. It’s a terrible place. I feel for my child and we are trying to get him to move teams. He is not liked or valued there.

[Anonymous]

My hot take on my DD’s soccer season is that in order to win games (yes, I know winning isn’t necessarily the goal for individual development), you need a bench that is just about as strong as your starters. If there’s a huge gap, you lose games and it’s frustrating as hell. And putting together a team of top-to-bottom strong 1-18 players (including goalies!) is difficult. And then even on a team with 18 comparable players, parents are gonna complain about playing time rather than see soccer as a team sport. That’s my hot-not-so-hot take.