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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Social media is singlehandedly killing youth soccer in this country...

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I hear you but let's play devils advocate. It could possibly be making it better. For those kids with high hopes and super competitive it may be what drives some of these kids watching their current and potentially future competition putting in work. Also when we were younger the only training vids we had available were Coever coaching vhs tapes lol, now you can pop on and see how your favorite pro or even teammate prepares and trains. Like anything with the internet it can definitely be advantageous and there will always be people that use it incorrectly.[/quote]

The problem is that too many people use it incorrectly and create false realities and a facade of success.  I agree that the landscape has changed since I was a kid and playing the sport.  But the way kids are using social media in the soccer world these days is an absolute joke.  Of course people post things here and there that are straight up and not manipulative or pushing false narratives but the obsessive social media players are more times than not, hiding behind social media.  Eventually you have to actually play in high stakes games with pressure and you have to succeed  You can't manufacture being a legit player like you can on IG.  It's like the Photoshop of youth soccer. The truth always comes out.  Maybe later for some but it always comes out. Social media certainly isn't going away and it has its uses and if you're savvy you understand that and the uses.  If a player needs social media as motivation to be better then that is the problem right there.  It doesn't matter what everyone else is doing.. What matters is what you're doing and how serious your plan is to be a real player.  The people that are motivated by social media have a herd mentality.  Herd mentality, ie doing what everyone else is doing, breeds mediocre to below average players...which is what you see a lot of every weekend in this country. [/quote]

How'd you end up here with all that makes sense stuff?[/quote]

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