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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious about dedicated parent volunteers who have progressed successfully to coaching a Travel team?

It seems that some coaches, although limited in soccer background have done better than “experienced” coaches at progressing with their kids. Getting licenses, coaches training, etc.

I seem to see much more professionalism out of this group than I do out of the 20 somethings who are experiencing soccer players, but generally new to coaching.[/quote]

I am in the middle of this process at U11. I coached rec for 4 years, then moved on to coaching in travel for 3 years.  I stopped for this year.   Parents of kids have a lot more experience in dealing with younger players than any of the 20-30 year old coaches without children.  However, being a parent of your own player in travel is easier at U8&U9... it starts to become trickier at U10 and up.  I gave up coaching my own kids team at U11 and put him with another coach.   It's difficult to coach your own child and be completely fair to the rest of the team.... my own child began to think he was the coach and didn't listen to any of my instructions or new ideas, I was becoming an ineffective coach for my own child.    I did like the fact that I received a salary and my own kid could play travel soccer for free on top of it. (Combine those two, and you have a big motivation.)  I did have to get my coaching license and I did learn a lot from better coaches.    Some of the younger coaches did bring more enthusiasm and the kids responded well to some of the younger coaches.   Older, parent coaches, will by default communicate with the parents better and bring more professionalism than the younger ones.  I will recommend that whoever your child's coach is, is to try to listen to what they say to the players in the huddle.   Try to watch their non-verbal body language also at the games where they are losing a game.  What you don't want, is a 'negative coach, and tells the players "it's your fault and your have to do better."  I have heard that kind of narrative to from overworked-stressed out parent travel coaches, who are visibly upset they are losing the game.  That is a bad stuff and will harm the kid's love of the game.   Try to find a happy -positive coach who instills a love of the game in your player.  That is more important than having a parent coach or a younger coach.[/quote]

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