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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I laughed at the pass back critique.

This is such an American perspective- in our high school game the crowd literally boos with pass backs.  It’s bull**t.

Watch any La liga or EPL game and count the pass backs.  You will see hundreds of them.

Look, if your kid is playing on possession-based team then pass backs are a way to exploit the switch to the other side of the field.

Also, there is a TON of politics in American soccer - I know a kid who plays ECNL who was benched by high school coach - it’s a by product of pay to play system and poor coaching.

Ever read the work of Martin EP Seligman at Penn?  Externalization is a technique to deal with failures - and keep going.  Your son may be exhibiting what high level sales folks exhibit - sign of deep persistence.

Sounds like your kid has some gifts and is an optimist while you are likely rewarded at work for severe pessimism?  (Litigator perchance?)

Give your kid meta cognitive tools rather than simply play the tough 1950s tell-it-like-it-is Dad.

Good luck!

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I am a previous poster and interested in sports motivation and youth development.  It's a hard topic and everyone needs help with it... it's been said, even the English football academies that recruit players as young as 8 have not figured out how to spot a great player at a young age.

-So thanks for pointing out the work of Seligman, re:[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Seligman

I think using his viewpoint can be a helpful way to look at this problem. 
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