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Post by rifle on Jun 3, 2022 12:39:57 GMT -5
I’ll start:
1- The massive disadvantage a short goalkeeper has at U13 with full size goals.
2- Coaches who simply refuse to talk with parents.
3- Coaches standing together and looking at their phones during tryouts.
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Post by DunwoodySoccerDad on Jun 3, 2022 12:50:08 GMT -5
I’ll start: 1- The massive disadvantage a short goalkeeper has at U13 with full size goals. 2- Coaches who simply refuse to talk with parents. 3- Coaches standing together and looking at their phones during tryouts. I wish I could reply to this about 2 or 3 years ago when these things were fresh in my mind. Today I'm so used to the things that I was surprised about that I can't remember what they were. That said, your list is a good start. |
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Post by greenmonkey on Jun 3, 2022 13:47:43 GMT -5
Trying out for four days with one coach and finding out on night four you have an offer on the team you’ve been trying out for all week long but … ooops it’s gonna be a different coach.
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Post by greenmonkey on Jun 3, 2022 13:48:37 GMT -5
Thinking that if you show up at a big club for tryouts you will have a spot on a team.
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Post by greenmonkey on Jun 3, 2022 13:51:01 GMT -5
And finally … thinking I had seen it all and knowing there is probably more out there to see LOL
Still shocked that youth soccer is not a reality tv show
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Post by soccerlegacy on Jun 3, 2022 14:01:18 GMT -5
I’ll start: 1- The massive disadvantage a short goalkeeper has at U13 with full size goals. 2- Coaches who simply refuse to talk with parents. 3- Coaches standing together and looking at their phones during tryouts. It is a massive disadvantage for small goal keepers when jumping into a full-sized goal at U13. Hopefully, by U14 they have learned how to protect the upper part of the goal by either growing or getting stronger and using technique. |
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Post by mightydawg on Jun 3, 2022 14:16:35 GMT -5
Going back to the naïve days of U8 to what soccer really is, the things that have surprised me the most:
1. Coaches inability to be honest with children
2. No formal review process for players
3. Every player on a team not knowing exactly where they stand going into tryouts
4. The amount of ass kissing that parents do to coaches
5. Coaches having a plan and implementing that plan
6. Lack of club philosophies
7. The degree to which parents want to gossip and talk negatively about other kids on the team
8. Coaches talking with parents about players that are not their kid.
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Post by allthingsoccer on Jun 3, 2022 14:20:55 GMT -5
I’ll start: 1- The massive disadvantage a short goalkeeper has at U13 with full size goals. 2- Coaches who simply refuse to talk with parents. 3- Coaches standing together and looking at their phones during tryouts. It is a massive disadvantage for small goal keepers when jumping into a full-sized goal at U13. Hopefully, by U14 they have learned how to protect the upper part of the goal by either growing or getting stronger and using technique. a technique for shorter keepers is to keep back closer to goal line when shots are about to be taken. Almost in the goal. If they are on the line jumping up (with hands up) they should be able to cover gap. Its a strange technique but really worked for my son when he was in transitioning. |
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Post by allthingsoccer on Jun 3, 2022 14:23:15 GMT -5
I’ll start: 1- The massive disadvantage a short goalkeeper has at U13 with full size goals. 2- Coaches who simply refuse to talk with parents. 3- Coaches standing together and looking at their phones during tryouts. It is a massive disadvantage for small goal keepers when jumping into a full-sized goal at U13. Hopefully, by U14 they have learned how to protect the upper part of the goal by either growing or getting stronger and using technique. |
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Post by soccerman on Jun 3, 2022 14:39:43 GMT -5
And finally … thinking I had seen it all and knowing there is probably more out there to see LOL Still shocked that youth soccer is not a reality tv show You should raise to a network. The politics and back stabbing would be a ratings hit. |
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Post by flix on Jun 3, 2022 14:51:55 GMT -5
And finally … thinking I had seen it all and knowing there is probably more out there to see LOL Still shocked that youth soccer is not a reality tv show I heard that some moms at a club on the north side of town are filming a show right now that has been green lit. |
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Post by Soccerhouse on Jun 3, 2022 15:07:58 GMT -5
i've seen it all. not much would surprise me at this point.
coaches and player affairs
coaches and parent affairs
coaches cutting kids who have been at the club since they were 6 on day 3 of a tryout at u17.
bottom line --- the lack of open communication is so disturbing.
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Post by oraclesfriend on Jun 3, 2022 15:10:32 GMT -5
And finally … thinking I had seen it all and knowing there is probably more out there to see LOL Still shocked that youth soccer is not a reality tv show I heard that some moms at a club on the north side of town are filming a show right now that has been green lit. Hmm. They should come chat with me about the drama of tryouts when your kid is ill and can't go. It was SPECIAL. |
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Post by newguy on Jun 3, 2022 15:18:07 GMT -5
i've seen it all. not much would surprise me at this point. coaches and player affairs coaches and parent affairs coaches cutting kids who have been at the club since they were 6 on day 3 of a tryout at u17. bottom line --- the lack of open communication is so disturbing. To be fair open communication in your first two scenarios probably wouldn’t help things for everyone. |
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Post by Whistledown on Jun 3, 2022 15:32:52 GMT -5
7. The degree to which parents want to gossip and talk negatively about other kids on the team 8. Coaches talking with parents about players that are not their kid. OMG. These two. |
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Post by soccerparentx on Jun 3, 2022 15:41:25 GMT -5
And to think, we PAY thousands of dollars for this...
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Post by rifle on Jun 3, 2022 16:53:05 GMT -5
It is a massive disadvantage for small goal keepers when jumping into a full-sized goal at U13. Hopefully, by U14 they have learned how to protect the upper part of the goal by either growing or getting stronger and using technique. Yep. Before DA ECNL SCCL NPL etc it was just CL1-5 then RPL and NL. All Promotion and relegation.. then SuperY or 3v3 in the summer. There was tons of player/parent scheming between seasons among Teams but you landed where you landed. Except small club teams got shafted on Select league placement at U13. Regardless of Academy Cup results. If Concorde added a 4th team they magically got placed higher than DDY, Inter Atlanta, Tucker and Roswell because of the golden rule among soccer clubs. The ones with the gold makes the rules. So to make a long story endless, my oldest came up in a small club whose 1st team was pretty good but they got placed in CL3 because “small club”. A short GK was the nail in the coffin. The GK was GOOD but so many shots just like that video clip. Like most small club teams they hung together one more season and scattered to destination clubs, to ECNL and DA as they got older. …but it sure is nice to have aged out and no longer experience tryouts. |
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Post by dabe on Jun 3, 2022 17:31:50 GMT -5
And finally … thinking I had seen it all and knowing there is probably more out there to see LOL Still shocked that youth soccer is not a reality tv show I heard that some moms at a club on the north side of town are filming a show right now that has been green lit. Those poor children… |
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Post by bogan on Jun 3, 2022 17:54:19 GMT -5
rifle said “ but it sure is nice to have aged out and no longer experience tryouts.”. Ok, now you are just rubbing it in. 🤣
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Post by randomparent on Jun 3, 2022 22:11:18 GMT -5
How important aggression is to be successful at U6 LOL
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Post by keeperdad on Jun 3, 2022 22:32:56 GMT -5
- How entitled parents and kids have become
- too many parents think their kid is better than they actually are
- too many kids think they are better than they actually are
- status chasing parents and therefore status chasing kids
- parents thinking they know more about soccer than the coach
- Lack of transparency from clubs and coaches
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Post by rifle on Jun 4, 2022 6:45:58 GMT -5
Club parents (and thus kids) talking down about rec soccer.
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Post by dadofthree on Jun 4, 2022 7:18:13 GMT -5
Club parents talking down about every division other than D1.
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Post by Oceanready on Jun 4, 2022 8:27:23 GMT -5
*Parents side coaching other people’s kids during the game.
*Parents disrespecting referee calls especially teen refs.
*Players that feel they are elite and look down upon other teammates because they feel that they are superior.
*Parents that openly talk about other players or the coach (stay away from these people).
*Parents that publicly and excessively berate their kids for making a mistake (sad).
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Post by oraclesfriend on Jun 4, 2022 11:44:44 GMT -5
Coaches picking players based on politics or past successes
Parents talking badly about clubs records out of one side of their mouths but touting the importance of development out of the other side
How many top team girls drop out their junior and senior years after living and breathing it for the previous 10 years.
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Post by Futsal Gawdess on Jun 4, 2022 12:48:14 GMT -5
And finally … thinking I had seen it all and knowing there is probably more out there to see LOL Still shocked that youth soccer is not a reality tv show I heard that some moms at a club on the north side of town are filming a show right now that has been green lit. is not kidding, this is a real and happening thing. So please add faux celebrity into the already toxic mix of cray cray parents 😨 |
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Post by Whistledown on Jun 4, 2022 13:22:09 GMT -5
I heard that some moms at a club on the north side of town are filming a show right now that has been green lit. is not kidding, this is a real and happening thing. So please add faux celebrity into the already toxic mix of cray cray parents 😨 Details, please! At least club and age group. Must know! |
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Post by soccerparentx on Jun 4, 2022 18:25:58 GMT -5
Going back to the naïve days of U8 to what soccer really is, the things that have surprised me the most: 1. Coaches inability to be honest with children 2. No formal review process for players 3. Every player on a team not knowing exactly where they stand going into tryouts 4. The amount of ass kissing that parents do to coaches 5. Coaches having a plan and implementing that plan 6. Lack of club philosophies 7. The degree to which parents want to gossip and talk negatively about other kids on the team 8. Coaches talking with parents about players that are not their kid. A coach blowing up an entire SCCL Club U12 team so that he can bring his 4th team up to play U13 ECNL... |
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Post by oraclesfriend on Jun 4, 2022 19:10:25 GMT -5
Going back to the naïve days of U8 to what soccer really is, the things that have surprised me the most: 1. Coaches inability to be honest with children 2. No formal review process for players 3. Every player on a team not knowing exactly where they stand going into tryouts 4. The amount of ass kissing that parents do to coaches 5. Coaches having a plan and implementing that plan 6. Lack of club philosophies 7. The degree to which parents want to gossip and talk negatively about other kids on the team 8. Coaches talking with parents about players that are not their kid. A coach blowing up an entire SCCL Club U12 team so that he can bring his 4th team up to play U13 ECNL... Gotta know where! Want to follow this to see what happens... |
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Post by Whistledown on Jun 5, 2022 10:32:34 GMT -5
Need to add: Coaches who talk bad about other coaches (even within their same club).
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