In some cases there are way too many kids who want to come tryout. At some point the coach wants to coach their team. It is disruptive always having a new player(s) in a training session. What if the coach wants to work on set pieces and finishing today? Nope. Can't do it because we got to give another kid a look today. It disrupts your team.
Club soccer stuff that drive you nuts...
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That's why we need to have a better defined tryout period. You shouldn't have random kids showing up if you are preparing for a season game or tournament. But it happens all the time.
Is the coach going to focus more on what the team needs to be successful on the weekend or on impressing a new player/parent with an amazing array of cones and equipment.
It really isn't that hard to tell inquiring players to come to a practice in a down week. I'm not advocating an open door policy. Just that the Club-Wide cattle calls are a waste of time for the players and parent. For coaches, they might see the rare player that stands out at one of these things... but then they ALWAYS want to see them at an actual practice. These cattle calls are extremely limited value for coaches and basically no value for players/parents.
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Cattle call tryouts are actually great for filling the rosters of the lower level teams. Parents should still ask for an individual tryout with the team before signing the check.
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Oh my. Gee, I wonder why I hated school so much. I saw this earlier and had to breath slow for one hour before I came back. School needs a big redo as well.
Teachers are like life coaches and she needs to go
Turning this what drives me nuts thread around for a sec...
My daughter’s team scrimmaged a younger boys team the other day. Swift, skilled players, and saavy parents cheering for BOTH teams, recognizing standout moments from all the players and gently heckling the boys when one of the girls got the best of them. Final score:
4-1 with a dose of fun, mutual respect and comraderie.
Low leverage situation makes for the opposite of wound-to-tight club games!
My daughter’s team scrimmaged a younger boys team the other day. Swift, skilled players, and saavy parents cheering for BOTH teams, recognizing standout moments from all the players and gently heckling the boys when one of the girls got the best of them. Final score:
4-1 with a dose of fun, mutual respect and comraderie.
Low leverage situation makes for the opposite of wound-to-tight club games!
So don't leave us in suspense...who won?
(yeah, I realize there's a hidden meaning to my question).
Boys won..
.Boys won..
Starting at U10 or U11 that's more often than not the case unless there's at least 2 years and/or levels (whatever combination) between them. YMMV
Was this in a community based club? (Loaded question also)
My assumption is that it was or there would have been other scrimmage pairing availability.
That said, you either have a great community or intra-club dynamic that promotes respect. Kudos!
I don’t know much about how the scrimmage was arranged other than linkage between coaches. Girls side a GA squad. Boys were a team from Anaheim.
Were they from the same club? We do that occasionally and it's usually pretty low-pressure / fun for all.
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LOL. As a parent of a goalkeeper let me explain...you sit there as a parent cheering your child for making an incredible save that involved them putting their face in front of kicking feet while scared to death they will soon have to replace teeth, and/or get a concussion, and/or a permanent scar on their face or worse. You know the ball that went in the goal was from the mistake that the defender left the back bar at the last second on a corner kick yet it is highly unlikely any other parent knows what happened. You know every technical aspect of the position from sitting at hours of trainings for years so you know what was just a good ball in the goal, what just requires more experience, or you know your kid made a mistake while other people that don't understand the position think every goal in is a goalkeeper mistake. You can tell by your kid's body language they are beating themselves up for it and all you want to do is yell that you are human and young, mistakes are part of learning, and if you keep focusing on the one that got past you are going to miss the next one. You also want to yell at that ignorant coach that fails to recognize the position requires mental grit like no other position so saying stupid shit prior to a penalty kick or after a mistake while in a game is best done at practice .....yet you can't do any of that for obvious reasons.
Over the years I have become calmer mostly because I stopped drinking caffeine before games and my daughter finally has a coach that gets it mostly because he was a goalkeeper. None the less I kick the imaginary ball while sitting in my chair, coach my daughter to myself (yes I talk to myself), and try to film her only to get videos of the grass at my feet. Fortunately I have some mental blackout when she is pummeled by the other team so by the time I am able to process what has occurred, it is too late to yell at anyone.
Most importantly....it takes a nut job to love the position enough to sacrifice themselves to the level they do so it would stand to reason their parents are most likely nut jobs as well!
Hahahahahaha, I love this and it made my day. I was GK back in the day and I would give up my body to save the day for my mates. One game, it got real chippie. I one crazy kid back in the day and it makes sense why I played the position. My adopted mommy was nuts too for adopting and foster caring for 8 kids. I forgot to mention she ran a rest home for older people whose kids didn;t like so my mom helped them instead.
In addition to the good ball and experience sometimes it’s just height as they are growing. The first couple years in the big goal are painful. Even the tallest of boy keepers can’t yet cover the corners and a favorite tactic of coaches at that age is smack it over the keeper instead of on the ground. But when the keeper fills in the goal 3 years later those strikers are in for a nasty surprise that they do know how to hit ground shots to the corner and the keepers just tip it over