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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So she's a terrible coach but she makes the girls feel welcome and the girls are happy to be part of the group... such a horrible person.

How dare she not put pressure on these 6-7 year olds to become professionals and earn those badges.

I hear the futsal program had a lot of kids there, so while GFR might keep their best coaches, hard to coach when you don't have kids to coach[/quote]

you have never seen her coach if you don't think she is putting pressure on those kids.  maybe not PTA, we never did that, but at U9 and U10 she was a monster.  [/quote]

a monster? 🤣🤣 but you stayed w/ her for 2 years? and now people saying she’s coaching 100 girls and none have left….weird. [/quote]

FA is a very good coach. Our daughter loves her. She is easily the best in-game coach of all the soccer coaches that all of our children have had. [/quote]

Between my two DDs, I have spent a lot of time FA-adjacent, although never directly on one of her teams. Coach F is a complex character, and many things can be true at once:

1. She pushes her teams to play with aggressiveness, tenacity, and quick decisionmaking. As a result, at U8/U9, they win a lot of games. Winning at these ages is not necessarily the most important thing, but a lot of parents are happy to have their DD on a “good” or “winning” team.

2. There will be a handful of players on the team who will be her favorites (and, in fairness, who will often be the biggest, most athletic, and/or most talented). She will script her games to play through these players up front. They will get a lot of touches on the ball and a lot of positive and constructive feedback. These kids will develop and their parents will likely be big fans of FA.

3. Everyone on her team, if they stick it out, will learn to play efficient, tenacious soccer and make quick decisions on the field. This decisionmaking & tenacity will benefit them as they get older. Her teams will also be well-conditioned.

4. They may not get the strongest foundation in technical skills often taught at this age and it may not be the best environment for everyone’s individual development, although they’ll learn to play under pressure. Also not the place for smaller & even faster players to develop unless already very talented with the ball.

5. The style of play that wins the games for FA will not necessarily translate to older ages. They won’t necessarily learn how to play a possession game or develop a field sense for that style of play.

6. I’ve seen or heard of behavior that, to me, crosses the line for coaching 8 y.o. & 9 y.o. players. Picking favorites and encouraging cliques to form on teams. Mocking and encouraging kids to mock players who are less physically fit as a way to “encourage” them to get into shape. Pulling players after one-minute shifts if they did something she didn’t like. Not everyone who starts with FA learns to love soccer, some give it up or look for a different environment.

7. Mercy and sportsmanship are not part of her lessons. Once I came over to watch a friends’ daughter in a tournament game. Her team had locked up their half of the bracket and was up 10-0 in the game against a clearly overmatched team with c. 5 minutes left. Her starters were still in and playing very physically to the point that the other team walked off the field rather than finish the game after this resulted in an injury to one of their defenders. Made me think of Cobra Kai.

To some this mix makes her a good coach. To others it’s not the environment for their DD.  
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