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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The best coaches can find a way to reach the kids others call uncoachable. You can't get everyone, but if you have a kid who loves soccer you should be able to find a way to work through most everything else. If they don't love the game or don't want to play sure there's not much you can do with those except maybe help them find something else they do love. If the player loves soccer and the coach can't help them it's probably on the coach.

I had one player everyone said was uncoachable way back--this was my oldest's team and they were U10 so almost 20 years ago. He was diagnosed with ADD but parents were smart enough to refuse to drug him for it. His struggles were more with school, his teachers couldn't stand him, but other coaches had struggled with him too. Any structure. He did love playing soccer so after struggling through the fist season I gave him a call and had a talk. Said the team was struggling and we really needed to make the best use of the limited practice time we were allotted. Told him he was the only one all the other boys looked up to and I needed him to be captain and help keep everyone focused so we could learn and improve and win more games. Never had a problem with him again. Not trying to brag with that story, just saying that if they love soccer you can find a way to get them on your side. Sometimes you may have to be a little creative about it, if that hadn't worked I would have kept trying other ways. By the way that kid did fine and was a straight A student by the time he got to high school. They moved away before that but he kept playing soccer.

I've seen time and again players who were cast off in one setting find another setting and flourish and far surpass they group that thought they were leaving him/her behind. [/quote]

If you are expecting coaches to be psychologists or miracle workers, good luck finding them. [/quote]

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