FC Portland Cup Cancelled

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Nice stirring. I seem to recall that in the days of my grandfather he used a goat's head for a ball and cleats were just worn out Sunday shoes with roofing nails pounded in from the inside. Now these two items would make our kids real men and women, and creative. too. We don't need no stinkin' fields.

Yep. For that matter who needs a ball? Let the kids create the image of a ball in their head and then play. Then, voilą, we have creative, problem-solver players with vision. Just like they say they want in the development offices at the USSF.

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FC's BIG coach everyone is so impressed with and thinks is so amazing is the biggest jerk of all. He just loves to belittle and demean his girls in the name of "taking them to the next level".

This kind of coaching at FC is going on and everyone just takes it because if its coming from him, its all good.

By the way, he isn't the only one who treats players like dirt. Unless, your one of their favs.

And no, I'm not just one of those discruntled parents. Just someone who has the guts to say it how it is.

Wow, that is the biggest bit of whining I have heard in quite awhile.

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Wow, that is the biggest bit of whining I have heard in quite awhile.

Your a waste of time. Nobody wants you. Stay in your backyard. You disgust me.

Just a few of the wonderful inspiring coaching words to lift the girls up. And that is only a small portion of it.

I'm not whining. I was just trying to make a point that the guy isn't there for the girls and diffently isn't trying to inspire them. Since when does verbal abuse equal taking them to the next level. Which would correspond with their success or lack thereof.

When a child is told over and over again they are garbage it has a negative effect.

The club knows how he talks to some of the girls and doesn't seem to care.

And yes I'm anonymous because it doesn't matter who the player was/is but that it happened and continues to happen.

We have left and so are several other girls who just don't want to deal with it anymore. (Although publicly they all say it is for different reasons since everybody is so intimidated by his "power").

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You are so correct. All clubs have coaches that you may not care for. And, for the large clubs like FC it will change.

I do have to say that we ended up changing clubs (not from or to FC) and it can feel as one person on here put it as if you are going through a divorce. The flip side is that sometimes change reginerates some of the passion for the game. It may be like taking on a new job when you were burned out in the old one. For us we noticed a huge improvement in pure enjoyment which replaced what was becoming drudgery.

There are things you give up, such as some of the friends that you have in other parents. In general the kiddos are supportive of each other. They may initially spout off with some attitude (probably directly what they have heard from parents) but that goes away very quickly.

From our experience there was some major ill will when we left our club. Over a period of time that too changed and it became not as as awkward. At the end of the day this is about your kid not other people's kids and not really even friendships. The kids make friends on all of their teams.

That is my take but it is simply an opinion.

This was a very good post. Changing clubs is always a difficult decision and can be tough on your player. My DD has changed clubs twice. Developmentally, it was the right decision in both cases and it was her decision. This year was the second. Our experience is that the players are much more accepting than the parents and she has been made to feel welcome by her teammates on both teams. She still has a lot of really good friends on her first team because they are the girls she grew up with but now she has additional friends on both of the other teams.

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Your a waste of time. Nobody wants you. Stay in your backyard. You disgust me.

Just a few of the wonderful inspiring coaching words to lift the girls up. And that is only a small portion of it.

I'm not whining. I was just trying to make a point that the guy isn't there for the girls and diffently isn't trying to inspire them. Since when does verbal abuse equal taking them to the next level. Which would correspond with their success or lack thereof.

When a child is told over and over again they are garbage it has a negative effect.

The club knows how he talks to some of the girls and doesn't seem to care.

And yes I'm anonymous because it doesn't matter who the player was/is but that it happened and continues to happen.

We have left and so are several other girls who just don't want to deal with it anymore. (Although publicly they all say it is for different reasons since everybody is so intimidated by his "power").

What the person was saying was, get some balls and tell the person involved. How many of these whining parents have kids on the B team or are struggling A team players?