Always favoritism?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Funny that people on here are griping over someone saying juggling 50x is hard. Both my kids can juggle over 1000x and I think the guy who posted about juggling is right. If you aren’t going to put the time in at something as basic as juggling, then scram.

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i love these maxims. Acting like there's only one way to develop a kid and that if your kid can't hit certain benchmarks by age 9, then they're doomed to failure at soccer. My kid can juggle.. maybe 40 times on a good day, they only practices soccer 3-4 days a week, and almost never practice on their own. Yet they have one of the best first touches on the team and they're a starter on a top team in a top league. They even have the audacity to play a second sport at a high-level and soccer is their 'for fun' sport. How is this possible if juggling is required to play high level soccer, you need to be exclusively focused on soccer by 10, and all successful kids must practice on their own 7-days a week? Just let the kids have their own journey. If they want to get 2000+ juggles on their own, great for them! If they don't, they're going to be just fine.

Your problem is thinking because your kid is an anomaly that it's the norm. It's like anything else in life, some people have a knack for things and most have to work their ass off. Just because math comes natural to me I'd be pretty dumb to question why others may need to study or need a tutor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny that people on here are griping over someone saying juggling 50x is hard. Both my kids can juggle over 1000x and I think the guy who posted about juggling is right. If you aren’t going to put the time in at something as basic as juggling, then scram.

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i love these maxims. Acting like there's only one way to develop a kid and that if your kid can't hit certain benchmarks by age 9, then they're doomed to failure at soccer. My kid can juggle.. maybe 40 times on a good day, they only practices soccer 3-4 days a week, and almost never practice on their own. Yet they have one of the best first touches on the team and they're a starter on a top team in a top league. They even have the audacity to play a second sport at a high-level and soccer is their 'for fun' sport. How is this possible if juggling is required to play high level soccer, you need to be exclusively focused on soccer by 10, and all successful kids must practice on their own 7-days a week? Just let the kids have their own journey. If they want to get 2000+ juggles on their own, great for them! If they don't, they're going to be just fine.

Than you Mr./Ms. Maryland United!

There are multiple levels of “high-level” but glad you are exceeding at yours. Cheers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny that people on here are griping over someone saying juggling 50x is hard. Both my kids can juggle over 1000x and I think the guy who posted about juggling is right. If you aren’t going to put the time in at something as basic as juggling, then scram.

💯

i love these maxims. Acting like there's only one way to develop a kid and that if your kid can't hit certain benchmarks by age 9, then they're doomed to failure at soccer. My kid can juggle.. maybe 40 times on a good day, they only practices soccer 3-4 days a week, and almost never practice on their own. Yet they have one of the best first touches on the team and they're a starter on a top team in a top league. They even have the audacity to play a second sport at a high-level and soccer is their 'for fun' sport. How is this possible if juggling is required to play high level soccer, you need to be exclusively focused on soccer by 10, and all successful kids must practice on their own 7-days a week? Just let the kids have their own journey. If they want to get 2000+ juggles on their own, great for them! If they don't, they're going to be just fine.

Your problem is thinking because your kid is an anomaly that it's the norm. It's like anything else in life, some people have a knack for things and most have to work their ass off. Just because math comes natural to me I'd be pretty dumb to question why others may need to study or need a tutor.

My goodness, look how sensitive these dads get when anyone questions their arbitrary rules to live by... Not everyone has to make soccer a horrible experience for their kids for an almost non-existent chance to make a pro team or go P4 in college. If you're already talking about 'grinding' for a u-little, then you have missed the point of playing a sport and I feel bad for your kid. Read the posts by parents of college players on this forum and very few of them talk about their master development plan for their kids, or how they forced their kid to juggle the ball everyday. Just let your kids enjoy soccer and have their own journey. If they can juggle 1000 times, great for them. If not, they're allowed to enjoy soccer too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny that people on here are griping over someone saying juggling 50x is hard. Both my kids can juggle over 1000x and I think the guy who posted about juggling is right. If you aren’t going to put the time in at something as basic as juggling, then scram.

💯

i love these maxims. Acting like there's only one way to develop a kid and that if your kid can't hit certain benchmarks by age 9, then they're doomed to failure at soccer. My kid can juggle.. maybe 40 times on a good day, they only practices soccer 3-4 days a week, and almost never practice on their own. Yet they have one of the best first touches on the team and they're a starter on a top team in a top league. They even have the audacity to play a second sport at a high-level and soccer is their 'for fun' sport. How is this possible if juggling is required to play high level soccer, you need to be exclusively focused on soccer by 10, and all successful kids must practice on their own 7-days a week? Just let the kids have their own journey. If they want to get 2000+ juggles on their own, great for them! If they don't, they're going to be just fine.

Your problem is thinking because your kid is an anomaly that it's the norm. It's like anything else in life, some people have a knack for things and most have to work their ass off. Just because math comes natural to me I'd be pretty dumb to question why others may need to study or need a tutor.

My goodness, look how sensitive these dads get when anyone questions their arbitrary rules to live by... Not everyone has to make soccer a horrible experience for their kids for an almost non-existent chance to make a pro team or go P4 in college. If you're already talking about 'grinding' for a u-little, then you have missed the point of playing a sport and I feel bad for your kid. Read the posts by parents of college players on this forum and very few of them talk about their master development plan for their kids, or how they forced their kid to juggle the ball everyday. Just let your kids enjoy soccer and have their own journey. If they can juggle 1000 times, great for them. If not, they're allowed to enjoy soccer too

I think you replied to the wrong post because I don't see what the correlation is between your reply and my post lol.

[Anonymous]

All i will say is some of the best jugglers in our team are some of the worse in games. At that same point the kids who cant get any are also terrible. If that speed demon learns a first touch and how scan field. There speed of play is generally unstoppable in games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All i will say is some of the best jugglers in our team are some of the worse in games. At that same point the kids who cant get any are also terrible. If that speed demon learns a first touch and how scan field. There speed of play is generally unstoppable in games.

What, those 5 second IG highlights don’t translate into real game results? Say it ain’t so!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All i will say is some of the best jugglers in our team are some of the worse in games. At that same point the kids who cant get any are also terrible. If that speed demon learns a first touch and how scan field. There speed of play is generally unstoppable in games.

Yep, same on my kid’s team. A couple of the super jugglers make terrible decisions on the field. The ones who can’t juggle just have a really bad first touch and lose the ball a lot.

[Anonymous]

Jugglers are typically tiny and slow players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Currently on a team with a coach that plays favorites to the extreme. If he brought your kid to the team expect starts, talent ids, special treatment, literally coaching, etc. If you were a player from the team before he was coaching expect to be benched, no playing time, no coaching, no id event invites. etc. I've never seen someone as ridiculously biased.

One of the players he hates on scores all the time and was the Senior HS league top scorer as a sophomore. Another that he hates on is a freshman playing on the Junior HS soccer team and won the MVP award. Neither of them have gone to a talent id because they were preexisting on the team and not someone he recruited.

It just blows my mind how much this coach plays favorites. I heard a college coach called asking about a non favorite player and apparently he gushed that he had trained them since they were 5 (came to the team last season) and spent most of the call talking about himself. It was so ridiculous that the college coach reached out to the players parents and relayed the conversation to confirm if what he said was true. (it wasnt)

Maybe this sounds like sour grapes. But multiple college coaches have asked players what they think about him and consider the guy weird.

We're looking for an out hopefully soon.

This has to be BP. My dd was asked about him at her official visit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a dumb thread

This has to be from the USYNT camp invite announcements. Its always the invites that sets the people off.

Nah wake me up when you make the national team. Otherwise it is pure favoritism and everyone knows it. These call ups are more of an embarrassment than anything else. Some deserve the call ups but the majority is just a matter of who is the coach ‘s pet.

This is true. Favoritism at Youth team - talent at the real national team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Currently on a team with a coach that plays favorites to the extreme. If he brought your kid to the team expect starts, talent ids, special treatment, literally coaching, etc. If you were a player from the team before he was coaching expect to be benched, no playing time, no coaching, no id event invites. etc. I've never seen someone as ridiculously biased.

One of the players he hates on scores all the time and was the Senior HS league top scorer as a sophomore. Another that he hates on is a freshman playing on the Junior HS soccer team and won the MVP award. Neither of them have gone to a talent id because they were preexisting on the team and not someone he recruited.

It just blows my mind how much this coach plays favorites. I heard a college coach called asking about a non favorite player and apparently he gushed that he had trained them since they were 5 (came to the team last season) and spent most of the call talking about himself. It was so ridiculous that the college coach reached out to the players parents and relayed the conversation to confirm if what he said was true. (it wasnt)

Maybe this sounds like sour grapes. But multiple college coaches have asked players what they think about him and consider the guy weird.

We're looking for an out hopefully soon.

This has to be BP. My dd was asked about him at her official visit.

BP weird…imagine that. LOL