What are your athletes doing over the winter to stay in shape? Considering stepping away from soccer for a couple months for a mental and physical break but don’t want to set her back come spring.
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Most clubs take off December. If they don’t they aren’t letting their players rest. Even pros take a break.Comment
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If you think your kid needs a break they probably do. They will remember family ski weekends. They won't remember winter soccer. Have them go to practices but do other activities if they want and skip a few gamesOriginally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Sports variety is is great and specialization is bad for kids. But when a kid loves the game, truly loves the game, they never stop playing soccer. Not in the Winter, not in the Summer... never.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Sure. Keep telling yourself that. Pretty sure if you ask a kid in the winter if they’d rather go skiing/sledding with friends over the weekend vs another soccer clinic they’d choose skiing.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Your kid is not going to last, poor child Daddy is going to ruin herOriginally posted by Guest View PostComment
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I agree. My kid just can't get enough of soccer. I think that it's because he grew up surrounded by it, so it's a bit culturally driven. I'm not sure that most other American kids feel the same way.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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They do that too. You don’t need 48 hours of a weekend to sled. Be. More. Productive. Yes they will remember that ski weekend when the got a boot fracture that landed them in a cast for 8 weeks.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Agree. We do futsal with no weekends/no major commitment, but only because the kids want to and their club runs a casual league. The kids love skiing (not on a team, just for fun with their friends) so we do that most weekends.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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Agreed. My kid exclusively played soccer (outdoor, indoor, club, HS, futsal, etc.) and she's burnt out.Originally posted by Guest View Post
She just finished her 4 years of eligibility at her school after not getting an at-large bid, and decided not to take her 5th year that Covid allowed her. Said she was 'burnt-out' and ready to go into the working world, secure she has almost no debt she has to pay off to get started.
We expected it so we considered her last game (tourney loss) to be the end of it, but still sad to see it end.
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Tell you who else is burned out... Cristiano Ronaldo. The dude should have taken some time off to go skiing in the Winter. Or play basketball instead. Terrible, just burned out.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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It’s easy to get burnt out when your team is garbage and has been since Fergie left. Mourinho, Zlatan and LVG have all said the same about the club. He happens to be the biggest fist that has the backbone to drop. A player of that caliber, age or not doesn’t go from 25 goals in one year to basically zero the next. You may see a slight drop off but not by that much imo, unless it’s an injury. It pretty difficult to motivate yourself and do anything on the pitch for a team you want to get away from faster than a burning building. The full interview should be a good one and he’ll leave everything out on the field(in a good way) at the World Cup, I hope.Originally posted by Guest View Post
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