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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vienna used to have "academy-style" programs for U9 and U10 (and maybe older?) in which parents were the official coaches of each team, but each age group's four teams trained together twice a week with the professional staff. Two teams played NCSL; two played ODSL.

Funny thing -- going without a "professional" coach at a lot of games didn't stop the kids from becoming All-District and even All-Met high school players. The best ones typically moved on (aside from some girls players on their best teams a couple of years ago) to DA or ECNL or whichever alphabet seemed more appealing than NCSL, but they didn't suffer from having their peak development years take place with (gasp!) parents.

The parents generally had the same licenses, anyway. The only difference was that the "pros" were younger and had often played at a decent level more recently. But they were less adept than the parents at wrangling 9-year-olds, which is a primary skill of U9 and U10 coaching that they don't teach in the grassroots or D-license courses.[/quote]

That is an interesting model.

In general...do volunteer rec (parent) coaches get a training curriculum or guidance? [/quote]

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