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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To play this game gptvthe long term (i.e. until the end of the high school years), is it important to be really fond of your teammates? Or is it enough to just get along on the level that's needed to play? Is this the same in boys and girls? How important is the social piece/peace to continue to be motivated?[/quote]

I've spent some time coaching and a lot of time as a soccer parent and I have to agree with some of the other folks above. Girls have a much more delicate thing going on when they are together and it's much more obvious to me when they come together to squeeze one of their teammates into feeling irrelevant or unwanted.  If even one or two girls on the team are regularly being made to feel small, I consider it to be a cancer on the whole team.

Boys do it much, much less, in my observation, but I will say that those that I have seen do it have always struck me as being middle of the pack players. Not especially capable with their soccer, in relation to the stronger players on the team. Non-leaders. Just generally unkind.

But definitely a bigger problem with girls than with boys.

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