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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the kids look similar?

If it is a homogeneous group with similar ability or similar bad ability, the coach may not have kept good track. I mean it is only fifteen minutes.

Bad move to go up to coach in the middle of a game. If anything, it should be at the end of a game or after a pattern of several games.

An[b]d rec teams don’t play all the kids the same amount of time. [/b]Some may but definitely not all or even most.

Our friend coached a basketball team and one of the parents called him racist. The team was half black and half white and the best kids on the team were black plus the coach’s white child. Coach often played the best kids who happened to be black and I guess he gave his own child more playing time than benched child who was black. Coach said he often played 4 black kids at a time so how could he be racist. If anything, he didn’t play the white kids as much. Our friend stopped coaching after that and his white son is often the only white starter on the teams he plays on.[/quote]

But rec leagues do have minimums for all players. If the coach isn't doing that then they shouldn't coach. This is why America- for all of its size and population- doesn't really have more standout kids. We do development all wrong. 
Our league requires all kids play at least 2 full quarters. In the first few games, it is more difficult because most kids dont have the stamina to last 12 minutes straight. I started with half field practices for the first few weeks and then slowly increased to 3/4 and then full field scrimmages for almost 1/2 of my practice time. All of this with 8u kids. My kids ran circles around other teams but it also took almost the whole season for all of them to be able to last the 12 minutes. 
Kids need acclimation to load for running and distance. Our games werent even on full size fields but because they had acclimated to scrimmage on a larger area maintaining wasnt a problem towards the end of the season. Most coaches either wont train the endurance, even for young kids, or go too hard too fast.

I had 3 practices a week. First practice of the week focused on what I saw missing in the weekend game. Second practice was full scrimmage to start break for drills then scrimmage working on X concept like cant score unless you pass three times or practice throw-ins from both the defensive or offensive position. Third practice was fun/sprints and then scrimmage. 
I did animal sprints. I had them dribble sprint pass. I did 2v2. 3v3. I punted the ball down the field for 1v1 and made them sprint to it and then whoever got it had to score with the other person trying to defend only.

I took it pretty seriously, not because of winning, but because the kids should have fun and also learn something. I wanted all the kids to look forward to practice and I had a few kids who had a)played soccer or b)played a soccer with a team. Imagine if their first experience was riding the bench or not having their coach believe in them! Who didnt explain that when a goalie misses a ball the ball didnt go past just the goalie, it got past the 6 other kids on the field too. Or who didnt get a positive note about their attitude- hustle, teamwork, sportsmanship- at least once during the season.

The win-at-all-costs puts too much pressure on the kids and its all so the Coach can feed their egos. We did win the league btw  :lol: [/quote]

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