Kids that burned out, what were common characteristics and how to prevent?

[Anonymous]

I saw a lot of very good players leave the game because they were at the wrong club or there was a bad coach.

If your kid is a technical player playing for a club that does not value technical play the kid will most likely “burnout”. Same is true for a physical player who lack technical skills. Clubs and coaches play a big part.

Remember most parents who sing the praises of a coach really do not know what makes a good coach or see the coach at practice. They believe the coach is good because the coach picked their kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am curious how many followers you actually need to have to actually get something? Like all of that training and invites is there a number of followers or are you supposed to promote the other trainer with your followers? I have seen kids recommended to me from local clubs and some have a 1k followers and some have like 10k followers.

It's not really about the amount of followers, it's the content as well as the skill level. Some people only post cone work or shooting on a empty vs training plus game footage so that the followers can see the progression and process, some only post their kid scoring vs creating, defending and assisting as well as scoring. You have to show people that's it's worth their time and reputation to work with you.

Congratulations on your child’s social media celebrity. That’s what most kids aspire to be today anyway. Just don’t confuse celebrity with soccer talent.

Parents doing this happens in lots of other sports too. I always wonder what happens to the 5 year old overly hyped up kid when everyone else eventuality catches up.

You too can produce the next Baby Gronk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a lot of very good players leave the game because they were at the wrong club or there was a bad coach.

If your kid is a technical player playing for a club that does not value technical play the kid will most likely “burnout”. Same is true for a physical player who lack technical skills. Clubs and coaches play a big part.

Remember most parents who sing the praises of a coach really do not know what makes a good coach or see the coach at practice. They believe the coach is good because the coach picked their kid.

+ 100%

[Anonymous]

The solution is, get them to love a sport like its a group chat or video games

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The solution is, get them to love a sport like its a group chat or video games

Whomp whomp

[Anonymous]

Easy question to answer....they were:

Tired of keeping their social media updated, torn between playing for ECNL or GA, couldn't figure out if they were a trapped player or not, struggling to find a local supplemental trainer all while they were getting little to no communication from their club coach.

[Anonymous]

sometimes kids realize, especially once they get to high school, that they don’t want to play soccer in college, and just want to have the college experience. this can make them not care about it anymore. On smaller clubs, some teammates will switch to ECNL/GA while others quit the sport all together and these teams can fall apart. But yeah if players decide that they don’t want to play in college, they lose motivation and in your eyes ‘burn out’

[Anonymous]

We always encouraged playing multiple sports, and mine moved to a different sport as a teen, mainly because they realized they weren't D1 material and liked their peer group more in the other sport.