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Post by bogan on Sept 8, 2023 21:05:58 GMT -5
“ So with the focus on: “compliance” “safeguarding” “player care”
How is US Soccer going to address this kind of standard practice?
The 1 on 1 training exploitation of players and parents is common in every community!
Unpoliced, defies all current rules and policies, no standards set, no insurance and absolutely opportunities for bad things to happen.
A central registration system for coaches could totally get control of this type of issue. Good coaches could advertise their work, standards could be set and parents could choose a coach knowing that it is being overseen🤷♂️
Solutions to many of the safe guarding issues in the US are easy to fix if there is an acknowledgment of the current state of play.
Thoughts?”
Derek Broadley-Charleston Soccer Club
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Post by BubbleDad on Sept 9, 2023 11:22:02 GMT -5
I get what you are saying, but this would take from their profit b/c you know a fee will be involved in order to be part of that system.
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Post by bogan on Sept 9, 2023 12:15:14 GMT -5
I get what you are saying, but this would take from their profit b/c you know a fee will be involved in order to be part of that system. We’ve had some good 1 on 1 training and some not so good. It would be nice to have some standardization. I guess the best one can do is to be an informed consumer. |
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Post by katieatlsoccer on Sept 9, 2023 13:08:36 GMT -5
I’m less concerned about the trainers I vet, select, hire, and oversee. I am far more concerned about the lack of transparency around the club’s staff. It’s nearly impossible to even get a bio for academy coaches much less any meaningful insight on them without asking other parents. Starting with a national database for club academy coaches feels like a far more pressing need in my view.
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Post by crazzzy4soccer on Sept 9, 2023 13:30:29 GMT -5
The choice to do outside training is just that a choice.
It’s your job as a parent to ask for any information you feel important when choosing a private trainer. Ask what license they hold, what style of play they teach. Ask a lot of questions. As age appropriate let your player be fully involved in choosing. They should feel comfortable but challenged. Pushed not bullied. They should feel respected but also give respect.
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Post by oraclesfriend on Sept 9, 2023 21:17:55 GMT -5
I’m less concerned about the trainers I vet, select, hire, and oversee. I am far more concerned about the lack of transparency around the club’s staff. It’s nearly impossible to even get a bio for academy coaches much less any meaningful insight on them without asking other parents. Starting with a national database for club academy coaches feels like a far more pressing need in my view. I have been disappointed in a lot of the coaches that both of my children have had. Sometimes it was really bad. Sometimes just underwhelming. A few have been stellar!!! No one is perfect. But I cannot choose my child’s coach. I can look into them and I try out where I think I might have a good team, coach, level, league, travel-from-my-home match. Unless you are one of the best players around you can’t truly choose your child’s coach and that is not the majority of players. I can 100% choose my child’s trainer. Between my two kids over their history they have trained with Velko, Alan Woods, Nadine, Kara Tavani, FD and a few others. All of these people have been great in their own way. They all have some downsides too. Totally agree that info about coaches would be helpful. What license they have, what is their day job, coaching philosophy, playing history and family situation (like do they have children themselves). Just because they pass a background check doesn’t mean they are good ppl and good coaches and I can’t change them as easily as I can my trainer. |
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Post by misssocceratl on Sept 10, 2023 16:38:06 GMT -5
“ So with the focus on: “compliance” “safeguarding” “player care” How is US Soccer going to address this kind of standard practice? The 1 on 1 training exploitation of players and parents is common in every community! Unpoliced, defies all current rules and policies, no standards set, no insurance and absolutely opportunities for bad things to happen. A central registration system for coaches could totally get control of this type of issue. Good coaches could advertise their work, standards could be set and parents could choose a coach knowing that it is being overseen🤷♂️ Solutions to many of the safe guarding issues in the US are easy to fix if there is an acknowledgment of the current state of play. Thoughts?” Derek Broadley-Charleston Soccer Club Private training is again one of those things parents should take ownership of, we should be smart enough to know when a trainer is running an actual business with appropriate safeguards (for themselves and our children) of all kinds. For example, say a local trainer doesn’t get a safety waiver from you or a photo release waiver but then routinely uses your children’s practices and such to build their social media presence and thus increase their revenue and local presence. Parents should be concerned with the fact that someone running a fairly lucrative ‘business’ isn’t even asking for a waiver to do that (we all sign safety waivers and photo release forms for club soccer, at our local schools, etc.) |
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Post by soccerdad20 on Sept 13, 2023 9:36:39 GMT -5
Agree with others that this is a choice the parent and child makes and the parent must be 100% responsible. We personally watch the entire sessions our daughter does and would have no hesitation to terminate the relationship if we encountered any issue. We monitor her enthusiasm for going each week and similarly we would end the relationship if she was not fully on board.
I would not engage a current coach (or anyone at her current club) to provide the 1 on 1 training as it creates further financial entanglements that will cloud judgement of both coach, player, and parent.
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