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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son switched clubs last year and in the past, the coach would send a kid out for the coin toss, but it was always random.  This last season, we had a designated "team" captain on the team and the things the coach would say to this kid was ridiculous such as "you are the Capt, you do that again and and  you'll loose that role son."  The kid was a solid player, other than wearing an arm band we couldn't figure out what the big deal was about being a "captain", my son was also perplexed why.  This was for U11 and after a year of seeing/hearing this I still don't know why it was so important for this coach to appoint a team captain.      [/quote]

It's not typical from our experience. Our DD's coach did rotate only 2 kids for the coin toss and he called them "captains" but it wasn't really very formal. It seemed to us and the kids a way to recognize kids who are really nice kids and work hard but might not be the top scorers or other types of stars. Like more of a way to call out "role models" for things they could control like attitude and work ethic. No one seemed put out by it and DD has a lot of respect for those girls.

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