Blackhawks u17 looking for a goalie

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As another keeper's mom, I think you should stop stirring the pot with ALL your thinly veiled snippy posts. You obviously have striker mom envy. Get over it. The guy/gal in the net is the most important player on the field, and everyone knows it. I can't even imagine the antics you must produce on the sidelines.

You are all crazy. Soccer is a TEAM sport. Once one player/position/parent thinks they are more important than the next, the TEAM falls apart. If you want to compete in an individual event, go run track or race cars. No one is "the most important player on the field".

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Hey folks I am the OP. We have found a goalie-gk-keeper-most important player on the field,to play with us for the season. Ironically it had nothing to do with the post here (shocking). Thanks for all positive feedback (except for those who have nothing else to to do but post negative feedback without putting a name to it). So time to move on to the next forum and derail that. Good luck to all the players parents and coaches who have healthy kids to be able to compete in such a great game.
B.F.

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Hey folks I am the OP. We have found a goalie-gk-keeper-most important player on the field,to play with us for the season. Ironically it had nothing to do with the post here (shocking). Thanks for all positive feedback (except for those who have nothing else to to do but post negative feedback without putting a name to it). So time to move on to the next forum and derail that. Good luck to all the players parents and coaches who have healthy kids to be able to compete in such a great game.
B.F.

This is quite funny. One sanctimonious ***** putting down all the other sanctimonious *****s.

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Hey folks I am the OP. We have found a goalie-gk-keeper-most important player on the field,to play with us for the season. Ironically it had nothing to do with the post here (shocking). Thanks for all positive feedback (except for those who have nothing else to to do but post negative feedback without putting a name to it). So time to move on to the next forum and derail that. Good luck to all the players parents and coaches who have healthy kids to be able to compete in such a great game.
B.F.

Did you get really lucky and find a coach too or are you stuck with the same
jabrone?

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You are all crazy. Soccer is a TEAM sport. Once one player/position/parent thinks they are more important than the next, the TEAM falls apart. If you want to compete in an individual event, go run track or race cars. No one is "the most important player on the field".

Yes mom, at U10 it is all PC perfect and everyone is a star. But by U13, the keeper is definitely the most important player on the field. Every great team has a great goalie. All the other positions are negotiable. Any other position can have a horrible day, and the other field players can cover for them. But if ALL the field players are struggling, only the keeper can save the game. On the other hand, if the keeper has a horrible day, the rest of the team has to be perfect to make up for it. Most important position on the field, and every coach and player knows it.

I am not a keepers mom. Striker, actually. Lots of glory, but if they have a bad day? No biggie. They miss, they have another chance. They score, they're a hero. The goalie saves? Great, but everyone moves on. Goalie misses a save? It goes on the scoreboard. The only thing worse than being a keeper is being a keeper's mom. I don't know how they do it, and I'm glad I don't have to.

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Yes mom, at U10 it is all PC perfect and everyone is a star. But by U13, the keeper is definitely the most important player on the field. Every great team has a great goalie. All the other positions are negotiable. Any other position can have a horrible day, and the other field players can cover for them. But if ALL the field players are struggling, only the keeper can save the game. On the other hand, if the keeper has a horrible day, the rest of the team has to be perfect to make up for it. Most important position on the field, and every coach and player knows it.

I am not a keepers mom. Striker, actually. Lots of glory, but if they have a bad day? No biggie. They miss, they have another chance. They score, they're a hero. The goalie saves? Great, but everyone moves on. Goalie misses a save? It goes on the scoreboard. The only thing worse than being a keeper is being a keeper's mom. I don't know how they do it, and I'm glad I don't have to.

The keeper is only as good as their back line, tough to defend the 24 feet with no defenders. A good back line can make an average keeper look great, and a poor defense can make a good "goalie" look bad.

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Yes mom, at U10 it is all PC perfect and everyone is a star. But by U13, the keeper is definitely the most important player on the field. Every great team has a great goalie. All the other positions are negotiable. Any other position can have a horrible day, and the other field players can cover for them. But if ALL the field players are struggling, only the keeper can save the game. On the other hand, if the keeper has a horrible day, the rest of the team has to be perfect to make up for it. Most important position on the field, and every coach and player knows it.

I am not a keepers mom. Striker, actually. Lots of glory, but if they have a bad day? No biggie. They miss, they have another chance. They score, they're a hero. The goalie saves? Great, but everyone moves on. Goalie misses a save? It goes on the scoreboard. The only thing worse than being a keeper is being a keeper's mom. I don't know how they do it, and I'm glad I don't have to.

Most parents have no idea how much mental discipline is needed to be a good keeper. It goes beyond standing there most of the game without any action. You should hear some of the things that get said to them from parents. Even their own teams.

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I am not trying to be nasty but I hope you realize that your post speaks volumes to the people you are trying to recruit. In soccer the gk is referred to as a keeper and you just told serious ones that you have absolutely no idea what their position is all about. From that serious keeper's point of view you have basically told them the clubs sees them as an after thought. Believe it or not that is a big complaint with keepers who often end up getting no training from their club and a whole lot of grief from people who blame them when things go bad. You might as well just stick a field player in net.

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Most parents have no idea how much mental discipline is needed to be a good keeper. It goes beyond standing there most of the game without any action. You should hear some of the things that get said to them from parents. Even their own teams.

Most of the time it is from there own team and worse there parents. That is why most keepers parent(s) stay away from the rest of the team or at the end where there player is located.

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Even scarier is those who thought the other post was crappy. Shows how little they understand what the issues and concerns are for a keeper.

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Most parents have no idea how much mental discipline is needed to be a good keeper. It goes beyond standing there most of the game without any action. You should hear some of the things that get said to them from parents. Even their own teams.

I do actually, my daughter does not play on a U10 PC Perfect team. And she is a keeper. I know how she beats herself up if she lets a goal in. However as a parent (and I define that very different than soccer parent), I would not be doing my job if I put her on a team and then taught her that she was "the most important player on the field". Above being a good soccer player, I am trying to teach her to be a good person. And of course, everyone has heard things said (even from parents on their own team), usually those are the parents that think their kid is the best.

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I do actually, my daughter does not play on a U10 PC Perfect team. And she is a keeper. I know how she beats herself up if she lets a goal in. However as a parent (and I define that very different than soccer parent), I would not be doing my job if I put her on a team and then taught her that she was "the most important player on the field". Above being a good soccer player, I am trying to teach her to be a good person. And of course, everyone has heard things said (even from parents on their own team), usually those are the parents that think their kid is the best.

You don't have to tell her. She already knows. It comes with the territory. You deal with the hero vs the goat potential every second of every game. When your mom blabs on about "there's no "I" in team, takes a whole team to win or loose a game, blah, blah, blah" it goes in one ear and out the other. What matters is what her teammates think, and they all know she is IT, the irreplaceable one, their last hope, their catcher in the rye. That's why the whole team comes to the goalie at the end of a tough game. They are honoring that fact, and you and your PC good mommy stuff can't change it.

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You don't have to tell her. She already knows. It comes with the territory. You deal with the hero vs the goat potential every second of every game. When your mom blabs on about "there's no "I" in team, takes a whole team to win or loose a game, blah, blah, blah" it goes in one ear and out the other. What matters is what her teammates think, and they all know she is IT, the irreplaceable one, their last hope, their catcher in the rye. That's why the whole team comes to the goalie at the end of a tough game. They are honoring that fact, and you and your PC good mommy stuff can't change it.

But all the non pc mommy stuff can!