Coaching city kids

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Anyone else here coach city kids? (or other larger population areas)

Have you any luck keeping players involved after age 14 or so, or getting them onto HS teams and maybe into college?

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you obviously grew up in a small little town, get out of your little bubble

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again ask a question and get a nasty answer.

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Anyone else here coach city kids? (or other larger population areas)

Have you any luck keeping players involved after age 14 or so, or getting them onto HS teams and maybe into college?

I recommend that you go to BigSoccer and post this question in their coaching forum. You are much more likely to get thoughtful, informed responses there than you are here (as the responses you've received thus far demonstrate).

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I recommend that you go to BigSoccer and post this question in their coaching forum. You are much more likely to get thoughtful, informed responses there than you are here (as the responses you've received thus far demonstrate).

i went over to bigsoccer and it looks pretty good. a lot of topics and replies. thanks

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Anyone else here coach city kids? (or other larger population areas)

Have you any luck keeping players involved after age 14 or so, or getting them onto HS teams and maybe into college?

Yes I have and still do .

I don't think city or suburbs issue are different when keeping them involved after age 14.If they were good players they continued to play if they weren't some gave up soccer to play baseball or basketball


All my kids went to high school . I had one.. my GK drop out because he wasn't playing for his high school team and chose to work

As far a college some went to play at community college , some went to colleg but didn't play and some didn't go to college and still play .

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Anyone else here coach city kids? (or other larger population areas)

Have you any luck keeping players involved after age 14 or so, or getting them onto HS teams and maybe into college?

I coached city kids in town and MAPLE. IMHO easier than suburban kids. Less sense of entitlement and the parents were too busy working to meddle with the team. Only concession you have to make is that you may have to arrange for transportation to games. During the four years I coached older urban teams I put around a dozen kids into college soccer programs.

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It's easy coaching them as long as their shorts are waist high where they belong because they run better that way.

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It's easy coaching them as long as their shorts are waist high where they belong because they run better that way.

Snarky we expect but take your racist drivel somewhere else. It has no place here.

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Snarky we expect but take your racist drivel somewhere else. It has no place here.

City kids also attend Harvard ,MIT, don't judge a kid where he lives because there a lot of spoilled kids in the suburbs selling drugs and doing worse

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City kids also attend Harvard ,MIT, don't judge a kid where he lives because there a lot of spoilled kids in the suburbs selling drugs and doing worse

Bingo - white suburban youths are 4x more likely to use and sell drugs than urban minorities yet the latter are far more likely to be arrested.

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Bingo - white suburban youths are 4x more likely to use and sell drugs than urban minorities yet the latter are far more likely to be arrested.

, didn't want to make this a race issue- The world will be a better place when we can stop saying white , black , etc , each kid should be judged on how they act, not color of skin or where they live , we all bleed red, many city kids are rich and poor , it depends on how they act

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, didn't want to make this a race issue- The world will be a better place when we can stop saying white , black , etc , each kid should be judged on how they act, not color of skin or where they live , we all bleed red, many city kids are rich and poor , it depends on how they act

I raised my kid in the city and watched many of my peers raise their kids in the burbs. My kid was exposed to far fewer negative influences. This has everything to do with race AND perception. But more due to privilege. If you are rich,pwerful and live in the burbs and your kid gets busted by the local cops chances are they will skate. In the city if you are poor and a minority your kid is going before the man. These are unpleasant facts but facts nonetheless. We are not a colorblind society, never where, never will be. Unfortunate but true.

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I coached city kids in town and MAPLE. IMHO easier than suburban kids. Less sense of entitlement and the parents were too busy working to meddle with the team. Only concession you have to make is that you may have to arrange for transportation to games. During the four years I coached older urban teams I put around a dozen kids into college soccer programs.

the kids i coach just play park league and pick up. the soccer is good and skilled but maybe not enough to keep older players involved?

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Anyone else here coach city kids? (or other larger population areas)

Have you any luck keeping players involved after age 14 or so, or getting them onto HS teams and maybe into college?

In all sincerity, good luck to you in your endevour!

Until we have more of the hungry, urban atheletes playing football here in the states, we will never be able to compete with the rest of the world. When your sport is your only potential ticket to a better life, it makes it a lot easier to dedicate the time and effort necessary to become great... provided you can find an organization and a coach that are willing to provide quality development and are not not looking to get rich by managing/coaching a youth sports team/organization!

Yet another argument for relegation and promotion between MLS and the USL?