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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree that the players in younger age groups don't care about winning.  My kids have enjoyed looking at the rankings app and knowing the caliber of team they are up against. They also would get bummed when they lose games that they could've won, and excited when they win a tournament final.

People keep saying the younger age groups are about development.  I ask you this, developing for what?  I thought a sport is a type of competition, and we are going to tell these kids they are never going to really compete because it's not as important as learning the skills of the sport, even though 1% will actually use those skills at an elite level?

With that I think the reason my kids play soccer is not to develop skills, it is to have fun competing. It just so happens that developing skills makes them more competitive, and there is no reason to delay the gratification of winning competition because some parents/coaches are crazy and some kids aren't really ready for it.
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First, we know it's you who's hung up on the useless rankings app. Then you pushed that silly obsession on your kids.

The reason development is more important to kids than winning games, is because kids want to get better at what they do, especially in front of their peers.
At these low levels and younger ages, it only takes 3 or 4 good players (usually early bloomers) for a team to win games.
Meanwhile people like you are celebrating victory when most of the team doesn't contribute much.

The more a kid develops and contributes, the more they love the sport. 
But you want to raise the kid in science class group project who gets an A when the rest did the work.

Teams are as good as the weakest links. The kids who aren't developing drag the team down. No kid wants to be that player. [/quote]

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