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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've coached rec soccer here and there for seasons when they needed more coaches.  Only for younger ages- second grade and below- because once kids got older, IMO they needed coaches who actually knew something about coaching soccer, and not me, the random mom who quit soccer in middle school.

I always gave kids equal playing time, no matter how talented they were, or no matter if they spent the entire time standing there looking at the clouds.  I kept a timer on my phone and rotated those kids in and out every 5 minutes like clockwork.  That being said, substitutions were done on the fly, and many times, a kid would say "I'm too tired" or "my tummy hurts" or "I'm not ready to play yet" or "I don't want to play anymore today I hate soccer".  If they said that, I didn't push, I just said ok no problem and I let one of the more enthusiastic, soccer-loving kids  stay on for a second rotation. Half the time, that was my own kid, because he was one of the kids who always wanted to stay in for extra minutes, and you know what, I'm out there volunteering to coach every week, so I'm going to let my kid take the extra minutes over a different kid, not every time, but a lot of the time.  So sometimes this was misconstrued- a dad once came up to me after the game and asked why his son sat out the entire second half while my son and another kid played almost the whole time.  I told him that his son didn't want to play, and I asked him twice and he said no twice and that I am not going to cajole kids into getting onto the field if they tell me adamantly that they don't want to.

Coaching rec sports is a pretty thankless job sometimes honestly. [/quote]

Yeah there was a week a kid told the coach that his foot really hurt and he couldn’t play and the parents talked over him and told the coach he was a hypochondriac and to put him in anyway and the coach was like….no. I am not putting in a kid who says he’s in a lot of pain. [/quote]

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