Athletes

Check this article in Time's last week's edition.
It may apply to several players, parents, coaches in our soccer ommunity.

Little Athletes, Big Injuries
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 93,00.html

"But the biggest adjustment will have to be a psychological one: persuading coaches with unrealistic performance standards and parents with the means to pay an average of $900 for a six-week training session that they must back off and put the health of the child first. "Sports used to be this wonderful even playing field," says Regan McMahon, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle who has covered the professionalization of youth sports. "Now it's the rich kids who make the team. It's the upper-middle-class parents who can afford all of these supplemental programs."