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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just wondering people's thoughts on blowouts in travel soccer.  Is it appropriate for the other team to run up the score.

In Rec, the coaches get a lot of grief from the league for blowouts where the score is more than 6 goals apart.  But in travel, since it is travel (and top teams) do different rules apply?   [/quote]

They shouldn't, but we have seen many, many complete blowouts in regular season play with not too much attempt to damper them.

When my husband coached, he would have the kids complete a long set of passes before anyone was allowed to shoot---or only use non-dominant foot. Kids were played out of position---goalie at striker, etc.

I've seen it backfire and become more humiliating---like when every kid on the winning side is saying really loudly 'guys we can't score, etc'.  OR--kids going right up to opposing goal and then turning around and dribbling back.

At the littlest ages---there should be some type of mercy rule.

IN TOURNAMENT PLAY---completely different standard since goal differential is important.  But---tournaments are, for the most part, better matched up teams.[/quote]

A few things to do:

1. Quit pressing on goal kicks. At U9 and U10, you can't do this any more, anyway, which is good. I saw games get completely out of hand because one team simply didn't have a goalkeeper or defender who could get the ball past the other team's attackers. In my travel soccer experience, the parents understood this problem -- the COACHES did not.

2. Put players in different positions. No need for your star striker to be playing striker when it's 9-1 and he already has his hat trick.

But the PP is right -- don't make it painfully obvious. I once coached a rec game against a coach who was yelling constantly at his team to use their left feet and pass several times. And it wasn't even a blowout. It wa

It is just 1-2 goals. Chill, dude.
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That might have been my husband because he was adamant kids would be ambidextrous by 8/9 with their feet.  When you can only play with one foot when you are older, you are handicapped.  Older kids have to wait and get the ball on their good foot and lose the shot.  These aren't games in Kindergarten/first grade Rec they are for learning.

Flash forward to U11/12 and all of his former players can pass and shoot and receive equally as well with their weaker foot. If you miss the window on this and don't START trying that until 12--you'll never have it.  He also made sure they were equally using each foot when juggling.  With my U14 kid it is now painfully obvious which kids never developed their weaker foot or first touch.

These are not things most travel coaches bother with.

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It wasn't your husband. They were specifically doing it to keep from running up the score, and they made sure we knew.[/quote]

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