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[quote=Anonymous]My son's U-little team player against SYC in the Capital Cup tournament this past weekend.

I was impressed by the SYC players' physicality -- they clearly had been drilled on how to use their arms/bodies to push the other players away.  There were some flagrant fouls, but I attribute that to the boys just not putting into practice correctly what they've been taught -- not to malice or bad sportsmanship.

Whether those types of skills -- blocking and pushing and the rougher physical aspects of the game -- are whether the focus should be at U-little or not, I can't say.  They don't seem like particularly technical skills to learn, and I'd rather my boys learn ball control and positioning/passing skills, but I certainly can't argue that getting those rougher skills down early doesn't yield results: SYC beat us and every other team pretty handily.

We've lost to better teams, and we've lost to worst teams, and I don't take it too seriously with U-littles.  However, I must add that the U9 coach for SYC was the most obnoxious coach I've ever seen in years of having my children play U-little.  Constant, non-stop berating of his players for The. Entire. Game.  I mean, his team was winning by 5 goals and they're playing well (obviously) but literally the entire game, the SYC coach was angrily screaming at his players, full-throated bloviating yelling and screaming about any single little lost 50-50 ball, or any successful move or passing by the other team.

I have never in my life seen such an angry, unpleasant coach for such little kids.  Again, he wasn't yelling at the ref or at the other team ... he was berating his own (very successful) players for any little perceived mistake.  It was embarrassing and borderline abusive, in my opinion.

It's a shame, because we have been considering other clubs in the area, but SYC is firmly crossed off of our list due to their U9 coach.  There's no way I would want my 8 year old subjected to that kind of aggression and anger -- heaven help those boys when they are actually in a close game or on the losing side.  Really not a good look, SYC.  These kids are 8 years old.  [/quote]

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