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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny thread. 9 out 10 College Soccer coaches are verbally abusive. My advise to you is if you have an elite player, desensitize them early. Kids needs to learn to take criticism otherwise it's going to be that much harder to be succesful.

If your child is playing for fun and does not have aspirations of playing at the college level or higher, move clubs and keep it fun.  [/quote]

Taking a fun game at 9 years old and reducing it to an adult yelling at them on top of parents on the sideline doing the same thing is sure way to take a fun activity, even for kids with promise and turning it into a job.

Who would look forward to that ever? The kids will care about winning soon enough. Yelling at them over their mistakes will not make them more competitive but it will make many tentative and many more quite by 13.

The numbers are overwhelming in regards to the number of kids who walk away from the sport at a very young age. Kids who quit before they even hit puberty and the overall reason is a resounding because "it isn't fun anymore". Now you can say they are weak willed or soft or whatever but they are 9 years old. They are told to play soccer because it is fun and when they get there the adults they trust mostly yell at them either over a mistake or yell at them to do something that the adult wants them to do. And for what? To win a game at 9 years old?

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Again Rec is for fun Travel is supposed to be competitive stop trying to change that.[/quote]

travel is supposed to be about being more competitive, but screaming at 10 year olds to be in the position that a coach decides they should be in and playing the ball to the other kid that their coach has decided they should play it to and then moving off ball to the position that their coach dictates they move to does nothing but crush any creativity the kid may have had [/quote]

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