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This thread is the saddest collection of low testosterone A holes. Pathetic doesn’t even begin to describe you all. I feel bad for your kids.

We know this. You don’t have to rub it in.

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This thread is the saddest collection of low testosterone A holes. Pathetic doesn’t even begin to describe you all. I feel bad for your kids.

Yeah, seven years and millions of hits later I think this is pretty clear for all to see.

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This thread is the saddest collection of low testosterone A holes. Pathetic doesn’t even begin to describe you all. I feel bad for your kids.

If you met them in real life you’d know how spot on you are. It’s worse than you can imagine.

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If you met them in real life you’d know how spot on you are. It’s worse than you can imagine.

You'd know this to be true if you'd ever met the Salem Superstar's mom or the Gresham Gorilla's dad.

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You'd know this to be true if you'd ever met the Salem Superstar's mom or the Gresham Gorilla's dad.

Ain't that the truth. Those two were special - short bus special.

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You'd know this to be true if you'd ever met the Salem Superstar's mom or the Gresham Gorilla's dad.

Did Gresham Gorilla's dad ever get all those flat tires on the General Lee fixed?

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I don't like the bashing of kids. But the kids mentioned here (and there are kids like this in every age group) are cautionary tales:

For parents - not to get your hopes and expectations up based on early success and dominance, especially if your kid is ahead in terms of side or speed at a young age;

For young star players - that you still need to work hard and continue to push yourself, and not get overly confident or complacent in your status as a team start;

And to coaches - to once and for all quit hanging your team's success on an 11 or 12 year old and recognize that today's superstar may struggle in a few years when maturity evens kids out. If you aren't coaching that superstar to learn other positions, or to work on their non dominant foot, or to study the game and improve their soccer IQ, and instead you're just basking in the glory of having the top 11 year old goal scorer in the state, or having a club team that "5 peats" State Cup, you are failing as a coach and a mentor of young people.

Finally, if you are a late bloomer, the lesson you can take away is that early struggles very often translate to later success. As a late bloomer you learned to be grateful for your opportunities and make the most of them. You learned to give 100% effort in practice every day if you wanted playing time. You learned patience when giving 100% didn't always equal fair playing time. You learned to study the game to gain every competitive advantage on bigger/stronger/faster opponents. And you learned to be a good teammate when sometimes your main role was working hard in practice and cheering hard on game days from the bench. These are things that youth star players don't always learn, and that's a shame.

Cautionary tales that are still playing the game . Funny thing is parents are still butt hurt . For parents don't end up playing through your kids just support them , don't be a D-Bag !!!

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Originally posted by Guest View Post
“I don't like the bashing of kids. But the kids mentioned here (and there are kids like this in every age group) are cautionary tales:

For parents - not to get your hopes and expectations up based on early success and dominance, especially if your kid is ahead in terms of side or speed at a young age;

For young star players - that you still need to work hard and continue to push yourself, and not get overly confident or complacent in your status as a team start;

And to coaches - to once and for all quit hanging your team's success on an 11 or 12 year old and recognize that today's superstar may struggle in a few years when maturity evens kids out. If you aren't coaching that superstar to learn other positions, or to work on their non dominant foot, or to study the game and improve their soccer IQ, and instead you're just basking in the glory of having the top 11 year old goal scorer in the state, or having a club team that "5 peats" State Cup, you are failing as a coach and a mentor of young people.

Finally, if you are a late bloomer, the lesson you can take away is that early struggles very often translate to later success. As a late bloomer you learned to be grateful for your opportunities and make the most of them. You learned to give 100% effort in practice every day if you wanted playing time. You learned patience when giving 100% didn't always equal fair playing time. You learned to study the game to gain every competitive advantage on bigger/stronger/faster opponents. And you learned to be a good teammate when sometimes your main role was working hard in practice and cheering hard on game days from the bench. These are things that youth star players don't always learn, and that's a shame.”

Some coaches get lazy or simply can’t see that the young star has been passed by. Some see it but don’t care because they have a soft spot for the player. It never helps to favor them or not make them earn playing time like everyone else. It ruins the team culture and it ruins the player. Also turns some into complete selfish jerks. Sometimes no amount of hard work will keep the early bloomer in the front of the pack, even if the parents and coaches do everything right. Some simply end up too slow, weak and/or not as smart. Been watching even several college coaches fall into this trap and they are losing crucial matches because of it. Not only are these colleges losing matches this year, but they’ll lose recruits who will obviously see that playing time isn’t truly by merit and will look to a program where they themselves are one of the favored ones or where playing time is truly by merit. Recruits also don’t want to go to a team that loses because the coach can’t or won’t evaluate players fairly and correctly. The coaches are in the driver’s seat on this. Parents are crazy and will never change. The coaches must steer the ship.

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We are all very low testosterone, weak guys posting here. This is true.

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We are all very low testosterone, weak guys posting here. This is true.

Almost 8 years this thread has been festering like an infected bedsore.

If they aren’t posting here you can find them sniffing their index finger down at the local park.

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OMG… retire this thread already!! And get a hobby 2001 parents. I know it is a tough adjustment being an empty nester and all. Here are some hobby ideas for you: golf, knitting, cooking meth, dodgeball, getting a chia pet, urban camping, posting on Nextdoor, beauty pageants, sell essential oils. Just move on already!!

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OMG… retire this thread already!! And get a hobby 2001 parents. I know it is a tough adjustment being an empty nester and all. Here are some hobby ideas for you: golf, knitting, cooking meth, dodgeball, getting a chia pet, urban camping, posting on Nextdoor, beauty pageants, sell essential oils. Just move on already!!

Hard to move on when this person's whole life revolved around their DD who if "only had been given a break" would now be playing in the NWSL. The fact that she never rose up past the Samba team, can be attributed to politics, crooked coaches, the over valuation of more athletic kids...etc. Nevermind that their DD ended up hating the game and quit due to their helicopter style parenting, that I not a factor here. Nope. They are quite content to have their baby girl living at home and working as a barista, whilst playing Springsteen's classic, "Glory Days."

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Almost 8 years this thread has been festering like an infected bedsore.

If they aren’t posting here you can find them sniffing their index finger down at the local park.

This captures the beauty of this whole thing.

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I hear that the reason that FC Portland is leaving ECNL is they could never equal the forth place finish of the 01 team.

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I hear that the reason that FC Portland is leaving ECNL is they could never equal the forth place finish of the 01 team.

4th place in OYSA state league. Nice work to finish 4th in OYSA.