What are your unpopular opinions about youth soccer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Futsal sucks

YES!! Let's pay money to play soccer on a BASKETBALL court. Learning a lot. A lot about money collecting.

Yeah, look at all those fools in Brazil playing futsal! All that money, so little progress in soccer! The only suckers in this world are wealthy American parents shelling out tons of dollars to play absolutely horrendous soccer and exhibiting demonstrable ignorance about soccer and futsal. If your team and club does not play out of the back or develop combination play in tight spaces up and down the field, then I can understand why all of the learning that others do in futsal may be lost on your kids. In the winter, you can have your kid practice field goals instead and the skilled kids on your child's team can sigh over and over again whenever the ball heads your kid's way for another missed or lumbering touch. Enjoy!

Why do you think kids in Brazil started playing futsal, and where do you think they play mostly (indoor or outdoor on asphalt courts)? Hint, it didn’t start out near the Amazon nor in gyms.

Anyhow, futsal can be a great way to develop foot skills, quickness and small space passing skills. However, most of the futsal I’ve seen around here is a poor excuse for that and is simply a way for some coaches to rake in some more dough over the winter. A question I’d have is if outdoor tennis courts and b-ball courts were converted to futsal courts would kids go play on them, or continue to sit inside and play video games instead … and would doing this in inner cities vs. suburbs make a difference?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Referees should give more cards to PARENTS (the ones screaming at the players and questioning the referees)

We need more quality referees, which won't happen (see previous comment)

I'd pay an exorbitant premium for this luxury

Referees are able to give parents any cards let alone MORE cards. Straight from the Laws of the Game: "Only a player, substitute, substituted player or team official may be shown the red or yellow card."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Referees should give more cards to PARENTS (the ones screaming at the players and questioning the referees)

We need more quality referees, which won't happen (see previous comment)

I'd pay an exorbitant premium for this luxury

Referees are able to give parents any cards let alone MORE cards. Straight from the Laws of the Game: "Only a player, substitute, substituted player or team official may be shown the red or yellow card."

^Referees are NOT able to give any cards..."

[Anonymous]

Ban spectators at all fields to fix the referee abuse problem.
All leagues to support VEO2 with free public streaming services in lieu of attendance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Futsal sucks

YES!! Let's pay money to play soccer on a BASKETBALL court. Learning a lot. A lot about money collecting.

Popular opinion, you're dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ban spectators at all fields to fix the referee abuse problem.
All leagues to support VEO2 with free public streaming services in lieu of attendance

As a referee, I think just increasing the distance that parents can stand near the field would be great. Say 10-15 yards would be nice. Refereeing at HS stadiums is so nice because parents are in the stands outside the track area. It's so much better.

[Anonymous]

The game on the girls side needs to be called differently. It is just too physical and little skill.

Or maybe they should start requiring shoulder pads and a helmet.

[Anonymous]

Holding coaches accountable for their unprofessional and abusive behavior.

[Anonymous]

Not allowing the team manager's (liaison's?) kid to be treated special because the coach and dad are good friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Referees should give more cards to PARENTS (the ones screaming at the players and questioning the referees)

We need more quality referees, which won't happen (see previous comment)

I'd pay an exorbitant premium for this luxury

Referees are able to give parents any cards let alone MORE cards. Straight from the Laws of the Game: "Only a player, substitute, substituted player or team official may be shown the red or yellow card."

^Referees are NOT able to give any cards..."

Fine, give the cards to the coaches for not controlling their spectators. Let's see how that goes!

[Anonymous]

3. PKs should never determine a tourney winner. Play until one team wins with a golden goal


This can't work. If I have a 3:40 game, and several games earlier in the day went overtime, my game might be 7pm or later....

[Anonymous]

Such thin skin. Here’s how I handled obnoxious parents back when I reffed and was a 16 or 17 year old kid. I firmly and loudly informed the coach that he would be given a red card if the parents continued their behavior and then one by one his players would be carded. Amazingly enough the “adults” listened to me (the kid) and shut up for the rest of the match.

Not sure why the adult refs today can’t handle this and instead allow unruly behavior to persist.

The easiest way to control parents is to penalize their kid’s team if they act poorly. Don’t penalize them, penalize their kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Such thin skin. Here’s how I handled obnoxious parents back when I reffed and was a 16 or 17 year old kid. I firmly and loudly informed the coach that he would be given a red card if the parents continued their behavior and then one by one his players would be carded. Amazingly enough the “adults” listened to me (the kid) and shut up for the rest of the match.

Not sure why the adult refs today can’t handle this and instead allow unruly behavior to persist.

The easiest way to control parents is to penalize their kid’s team if they act poorly. Don’t penalize them, penalize their kid.

You can't card a player for parent's behavior. That's moronic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Such thin skin. Here’s how I handled obnoxious parents back when I reffed and was a 16 or 17 year old kid. I firmly and loudly informed the coach that he would be given a red card if the parents continued their behavior and then one by one his players would be carded. Amazingly enough the “adults” listened to me (the kid) and shut up for the rest of the match.

Not sure why the adult refs today can’t handle this and instead allow unruly behavior to persist.

The easiest way to control parents is to penalize their kid’s team if they act poorly. Don’t penalize them, penalize their kid.

1. This is BS.
2. This is contrary to the laws of the game.

[Anonymous]

Ref can do anything they want right or wrong