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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny thread. [b]9 out 10 College Soccer coaches are verbally abusive[/b]. 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]
I would have thought you were exaggerating before my kid and his friends started their college careers, but there is literally one coach among the dozen or so  we hear about that doesn’t routinely subject players to verbal abuse and sometimes worse. I suppose I’m grateful that my kid’s youth experience left him able to withstand extremely personal attacks and public humiliation without flinching? He will certainly be able to deal with a Gordon Ramsay style boss in the future.  Funnily enough, some of the coaches do this on purpose because they think it’s a good strategy for motivating the kids (also like Gordon Ramsay, who I’ve read is a kind and thoughtful person in real life). Others are just insecure people with anger management problems, as sounds like the case with the coach OP describes.

A PP mentioned advances in coaching psychology over the last few decades. It would be interesting to know what percentage of college (or pro) coaches actually follow best practices in this regard. There’s not much incentive to do so when you have a group that’s motivated to stay either for the scholarship money or chance to play.  Obviously a similar dynamic is at work at the youth level in the case of coaches with a good track record of sending kids to D1 or professional leagues. [/quote]

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