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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CP is our best player, and he can’t even crack the starting lineup at Chelsea or Dortmund. That is the problem. We’re just not very good. We don’t play soccer on the streets and in the playgrounds for hours and hours, day after day, and night after night like our young b-ball and football and baseball players do. Here’s a question, how many US dads teach their kids how to throw and catch a football or baseball or dribble and shoot a b-ball vs. how to kick and trap and dribble a soccer ball?  I played soccer and taught my kids how to do that and even coached their teams when young, and guess what ... one is on a girls ECNL team now. But, I played. Not a lot of dads and moms out there yet that played and know the game. It will take another generation or two for this to turn over, if ever. [/quote]

I’m a mom.  Soccer was our family sport. My brother was D1 top 5 in the Nation, pro post-college.  My sister and I played on National champion club teams and in college.

My husband works long hours. I have a flexible work schedule/work from home so I was the one with my boys in the evenings when they were little SO I played soccer with them because that is what I played for 22 years.  My husband was a college wrestler.  He dabbled in HS soccer, but it was not a big sport where he grew up like it was here.

My kids had their uncle and my dad a long-time coach who also are very involved with them.  I played “monkey in the middle” with them at the tiniest of ages and would always say I can’t pass unless you move to get open.  They caught on to space at a very early age.  I also taught them the basics: how to shoot, dribble outside/inside, properly trap, work both feet, head (yes a big no-no when they were small but they learned technique).

We watch a ton of FIFA and they have watched live games in major stadiums around the world, as well as played overseas.

We are out there, but we are a minority.  As a mom,  I’m amazed at how many dads with me on the sidelines no nothing about the sport but talk a big game.  I mean NOTHING.  They have their little pow-wows with the coach.  Something I would never do.

It’s 2019, there is an entire generation that did play—you just won’t know it because they aren’t the loud mouths or intense parents.  They see the big picture in the younger years.  It’s a bitch finding decent training/coaches and like-minded, normal parents.  We have had to move around a bit.[/quote]

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