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[quote=Anonymous]Title says it all.  It's sort of baffling.  Of course he's playing U8 so nothing matters other than enjoyment, but he wants to win and score goals and I sense that after games when this doesn't happen, he feels down.  In practice, when the team does 1 v 1s, or give and gos, or plays sharks and minnows/ four corners, plays world cup, etc he is clearly the best player.  And he has a blast. He is ALWAYS identified early on, with a new coach, as the best or one of the best players on the team.  When it comes time to playing in a game (and sometimes in a full sided scrimmage at practice too), he spends truly about half of the time standing still and watching in the middle of the field.  He will sprint and chase down an opponent to stop a goal, (he is the fastest on his team), but he will not aggressively go for the ball to take it up the field or even aggressively go for it to pass it to a teammate.  He will sometimes clear the ball out, or start to try to manuever around an opponent, but as soon as he meets opposition or someone else's foot gets on the ball, he gives up and then stands there to watch.  Meanwhile, if he's doing a 1v1 drill and his opponent gets a foot on the ball, he sticks with it and wins the ball and goes down to score.  Always.

He wasn't like this until this season, and it's so frustrating to watch!! I don't say a word about it except to say good game and ask if he had fun. But what's going on? How can I (or his coach) help him snap out of it so he can have fun in games??

These games aren't high stakes, they're rec games.  No parents on the sidelines screaming at kids to play better or anything like that. [/quote]

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