Worst and Best Coaching Moments you observed from Other Team this season

[Anonymous]

Don’t describe experience with your coach.
Interested in the best and worst moments you saw across the pitch.
What made you smile and what made you wince?!

[Anonymous]

You make me wince. Every time you post one of these topics.

[Anonymous]

Not this season but when my son played very high level soccer the coach from the other team called time out and walked across the field and told 2 parents (who were acting insane) to leave with or without their kids, their choice.

Our manager once told one of our parents to calm down and he said, if I can't cheer for my child he won't play for you and my manager said, okay, I will go tell him he can't play anymore.. and the parent shut up.

[Anonymous]

Not this season, but things that never happened

[Anonymous]

I liked the pregame handshakes I saw a couple coaches do.
I did not like the constant yelling of telling kids which one should take throw ins and micromanaging
I don’t see how these people have a voice left

[Anonymous]

We play a very aggressive Offside Trap. Even teams that beat us end up with 8 calls in the first half. 2nd half depends on whether they can learn or not. Well we played a year younger than us, but they were ranked Nationally #2 GotSoccer #4 Youthsoccer. CLEARLY they were the better team. They had a 3-0 lead on us in the first half. Right at the end of the first half a parent directed one of their kids to kick (as in turn around and kick) one of our defenders. No card was issued then, but my understanding was that three yellows were given to them at half time. (I heard this from their parents.) Two minutes into the 2nd half, there was a hard foul on one of our kids resulting initially as a yellow card and about a 3 minute delay as he was attended ...... his father came out to tend to him (presumably with referee permission, as he was NEVER escorted off the field). One of their parents was kicked out of the game due to persistent complaining to the referees. Finally, after one of their parents threatened the referee that "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot." the game and the police were called. I won't claim that our parents were angels, as the discussion was heated as to if the father was allowed to tend to his child (on the parent side of the field), but I didn't hear any inappropriate talk.

I am pretty sure it was their inexperience with an offside trap that led to all this disruption. For that and the fact that none of our kids escalated the confrontations made be proud of our boys.

[Anonymous]

Listening to 3 coaches for same team scream out directions to all players during the course of the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listening to 3 coaches for same team scream out directions to all players during the course of the game.

Haha, last weekend I saw 4 of them. They were all about 5 yds apart from each other, pretty much evenly spaced, and well all hovering just on or over the line. There was virtually no communication at all between the coaches, as they almost never took their eyes off the field, with an intensity and focus that and EPL center back would be proud of.

They were all yelling a nearly constant barrage of completely different things at the players.

It was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

[Anonymous]

Coach of our opponent telling our head coach and assistant coach to, "learn how to speak the language," and the parents from that same team calling our players, "bitches."

[Anonymous]

With the lead 2-1 with 5-10 mins left in game, the opposing coach screams "It's hot, I get it. You are tired, I get it. Meaningless league game, I get it. But if we loose, I'll kill everyone of you on fortnite later today." We got a good chuckle out of it, good to know it can still be fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We play a very aggressive Offside Trap. Even teams that beat us end up with 8 calls in the first half. 2nd half depends on whether they can learn or not. Well we played a year younger than us, but they were ranked Nationally #2 GotSoccer #4 Youthsoccer. CLEARLY they were the better team. They had a 3-0 lead on us in the first half. Right at the end of the first half a parent directed one of their kids to kick (as in turn around and kick) one of our defenders. No card was issued then, but my understanding was that three yellows were given to them at half time. (I heard this from their parents.) Two minutes into the 2nd half, there was a hard foul on one of our kids resulting initially as a yellow card and about a 3 minute delay as he was attended ...... his father came out to tend to him (presumably with referee permission, as he was NEVER escorted off the field). One of their parents was kicked out of the game due to persistent complaining to the referees. Finally, after one of their parents threatened the referee that "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot." the game and the police were called. I won't claim that our parents were angels, as the discussion was heated as to if the father was allowed to tend to his child (on the parent side of the field), but I didn't hear any inappropriate talk.

I am pretty sure it was their inexperience with an offside trap that led to all this disruption. For that and the fact that none of our kids escalated the confrontations made be proud of our boys.

Why do you stay on a team where the coach is obsessed with offside traps? What a cheap and boring way to win games.

[Anonymous]

At yesterday’s U11 tournament, the 2nd place coach earned a red card and was ejected from the game. His wife’s behavior toward the refs was nearly as atrocious as her husband’s.

Best: seeing all the girls reaction to any players injury by taking a knee and clapping for the injured player when she left the field. Classy and good sportsmanship.

[Anonymous]

Watching someone who has never played soccer try to coach an "A" team of a large club

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We play a very aggressive Offside Trap. Even teams that beat us end up with 8 calls in the first half. 2nd half depends on whether they can learn or not. Well we played a year younger than us, but they were ranked Nationally #2 GotSoccer #4 Youthsoccer. CLEARLY they were the better team. They had a 3-0 lead on us in the first half. Right at the end of the first half a parent directed one of their kids to kick (as in turn around and kick) one of our defenders. No card was issued then, but my understanding was that three yellows were given to them at half time. (I heard this from their parents.) Two minutes into the 2nd half, there was a hard foul on one of our kids resulting initially as a yellow card and about a 3 minute delay as he was attended ...... his father came out to tend to him (presumably with referee permission, as he was NEVER escorted off the field). One of their parents was kicked out of the game due to persistent complaining to the referees. Finally, after one of their parents threatened the referee that "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot." the game and the police were called. I won't claim that our parents were angels, as the discussion was heated as to if the father was allowed to tend to his child (on the parent side of the field), but I didn't hear any inappropriate talk.

I am pretty sure it was their inexperience with an offside trap that led to all this disruption. For that and the fact that none of our kids escalated the confrontations made be proud of our boys.

Garbage US soccer at its finest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At yesterday’s U11 tournament, the 2nd place coach earned a red card and was ejected from the game. His wife’s behavior toward the refs was nearly as atrocious as her husband’s.

Best: seeing all the girls reaction to any players injury by taking a knee and clapping for the injured player when she left the field. Classy and good sportsmanship.

Red for what? What was atrocious ?