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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So let me put this thread into perspective.

The OP comes into a Soccer Forum just to say that coaching soccer is the easiest of all sports to coach.

So instead of having kids practice soccer day & night, doing various camps & clinics, looking for trainers and especially search for a club/team that has the best coaches, why don’t you just have your kid learn to be a soccer coach instead. It’s extremely easy as you say.  People on this forum constantly bash about how bad the US coaches our youths. Hence, we need more and better coaches. I look forward to your DC to be a great soccer coach one day![/quote]

It is funny how pedantic many of the posters in this forum are. I did not say coaching soccer was easy, I said of the major team sports it is the [i]easiest[/i]. Coaching in general is not easy, agreed. I also said that I love the sport of soccer and one of the reasons is it’s simplicity. But, yeah I’ll admit I started the topic to see how many irrational, emotional, unthoughtful responses I’d get. I was not disappointed. Why don’t you try to explain WHY soccer is so hard to coach comparably vs. other sports instead of using generic platitudes about camps and clinics and expert coaching levels (which all sports have)? Tell us something that is more difficult about coaching soccer than these other sports, outside of “you can’t use your hands.”  Don’t talk about off the ball movement as all the flow sports (b-ball,hockey,lacrosse) have this too.  Don’t talk about set plays as these are much simpler for soccer than most other sports. You could compare a PK to a free throw or penalty shot I suppose but those are similar. Maybe the offsides rule makes soccer hard to referee, and the offsides trap is a tricky team balancing and communication thing?  Maybe you’ll talk about the increasing use of the 4-2-3-1 formation in the MLS and how choosing that over a 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 is a really difficult decision. Or possibly teaching a skill such as trapping the ball out of the air on a dime is inherently more difficult than hitting a 85mph fastball. Anyhow ... dazzle us with your expertise and acumen please. [/quote]

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