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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostYou are deflecting the issue. LL is a success. Youth Club Soccer for the last 10 years is a complete and utter failure.
I could care less about Little League
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostUhhhhh, if by "every year" you mean once in the last six, then you'd be correct. Yes, we make it to the finals, since the finals are now US vs. the World.
The pay to play model has failed completely but nobody seems to get it. Coaches are too comfy in their $400 track suits and fat paychecks. The DOC's are cashing bigger paychecks and functioning tax free as 501 (c)'s. Parent's bloated egos and unreasonable assumptions about the role soccer plays in their kids life feed the beast and they don't develop any perspective about what happened until their kid is well into college or even later. Some stay deluded for years later (Mewis kids are a case in point...). Their parents update their kids Wiki page every two weeks or so..............
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostActually, you deflected the issue. I pointed out that an opinion of another representative is that US kids spread themselves out too thin, and by not specializing (like other nations do), they will forever be left behind. Another opinion, just as valid, is that kids in the US have many other options, and it's too early to pigeon-hole them into one sport.
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Keep feeding the delusion. BTW - Can you use ApplePay at your club yet? Really nice tool for large transfers of cash.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSlow this freight train down. You're doing the same thing the coach is doing, but with sports specialization rather than positional specialization.
Your son is playing too much soccer.
He needs some cross training. He may like lacrosse or basketball more than soccer. Drop indoor and districts at the very least.
Indoor is to be with his friends. And at his age, this is probably the last year we'll do that as well.
He played LAX for 2 years and it didn't take. Same thing with baseball, but he played that for 4 years. He quit both last year.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostUS has won 50% since 2000. This year Lewisberry PA (pop. 362) was highly competitive against Tokyo (pop. 13,185,502). See if you can self reflect a little bit and wrap your arms around the implications of those population proportions and how it relates to the greater issue of the dynamics about how club soccer functions.
The pay to play model has failed completely but nobody seems to get it. Coaches are too comfy in their $400 track suits and fat paychecks. The DOC's are cashing bigger paychecks and functioning tax free as 501 (c)'s. Parent's bloated egos and unreasonable assumptions about the role soccer plays in their kids life feed the beast and they don't develop any perspective about what happened until their kid is well into college or even later. Some stay deluded for years later (Mewis kids are a case in point...). Their parents update their kids Wiki page every two weeks or so..............
There's less and less US-born players in MLB every year.
Pretty cool story about Little League. Is there a site you can take that too, where it applies?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostAn unenlightened coach in games at ages where individual development should be the priority over the match result is often, based on my experience, still unenlightened when it comes to deploying best practices in training those same developing children. Where there are red flags, don't be surprised to find more elsewhere.
The above is pretty spot on. While I like our coach and he works on great technical stuff. My son is in net or on D as soon as they scrimmage or work on tactical stuff.
So he's being forced to specialize at practice too.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI'm the parent with the 11 year old only playing GK and D.
The above is pretty spot on. While I like our coach and he works on great technical stuff. My son is in net or on D as soon as they scrimmage or work on tactical stuff.
So he's being forced to specialize at practice too.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe pay to play model has failed completely but nobody seems to get it. Coaches are too comfy in their $400 track suits and fat paychecks. The DOC's are cashing bigger paychecks and functioning tax free as 501 (c)'s. Parent's bloated egos and unreasonable assumptions about the role soccer plays in their kids life feed the beast and they don't develop any perspective about what happened until their kid is well into college or even later.
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