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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope you are not going to let your child be yelled at and berated. I am not saying that some kids need some influence but a coach can get a point across in other wats. For those of you wanting to jump on the (that's what is wrong with kids) i played in Europe as a kid. No coaches did not scream and yell at us. [/quote]

I let a verbal abuser coach my son too long in rec/low level travel at u10 and u11. That stunted his development a bit.  At u12 tryouts, a prospective club coach asked "was he yelled at a lot by his last coach?" Biggest regret of our soccer odyssey to date... We stayed with the caustic coach because we were in a small town that had one team.  Jerk coach took the u10 rec team and entered them into a regional travel squad.  It was basically all the kids in one grade who would eventually play HS together, so the boys were all friends.  Mid u11 we wanted to bail but if we did, that would have made the squad short a player!  Jerk coach wouldn't bring on extra players from outside his little fiefdom, thus zero subs!  [/quote]

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