Club soccer stuff that drive you nuts...

Soccermom18 said:
Parents constantly caring about playing time. This is a team sport, if your kid is not playing their best, they should be subbed out.
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That’s a bunch of bs.

I know of many parents that believe this. However, once their star kids (never had issues with playing minutes) get to college and are bench players, the sky begins to fall. They are now concerned with playing minutes.
 
lafalafa said:
I dunno what HS boys teams are in your area but almost all the ones in ours are packed with club players already. Flight one freshman are mostly on JV.

All tournaments are trophy hunting, playing up at the better ones can help development in the long term.

So many tournaments going on the competition can be really thin depending on who's playing what?
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I was looking a the tournaments, including the ones my ECNL kids played in and the competition wasn't evenly matched I don't care if the teams were playing a year up... if a team is beating every team by 4-0 or more (usually more) then it's not beneficial to the stronger team.. So I agree with you on one hand about competition being thin but also not always is it beneficial to development in the long run (for the weaker team yes, but not the strong team beating up on everyone)

Just my opinion
 
Footy30 said:
I was looking a the tournaments, including the ones my ECNL kids played in and the competition wasn't evenly matched I don't care if the teams were playing a year up... if a team is beating every team by 4-0 or more (usually more) then it's not beneficial to the stronger team.. So I agree with you on one hand about competition being thin but also not always is it beneficial to development in the long run (for the weaker team yes, but not the strong team beating up on everyone)

Just my opinion
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Yeah entering tournaments beside the major ones is a bit like gambling, sometimes hard to tell what you might get in terms of competition. Roll of the dice, during group play there can blowouts.

Even in national playoffs there where 4-0/1 games during the semis I recall but at that point your just happy to keep playing and getting some rest for the starters.
 
Clubs with cheesy mottos that are nothing but lip service. This past weekend, my daughter faced a team whose club states 'Developing Good People to Become Good Soccer players'. Well...after they were shown 7 yellow cards and 1 straight red in just that one match, I don't believe them. Their actions and verbal bullying were disgusting.
 
How about this for annoying...belonging to a league (SoCal to be exact) that refuses to reschedule a game even when both teams are in agreement.

We are down 4 players this past 2 weeks due to injury, defection to other clubs and players being held hostage by club directors.

We need more time to address this and the answer is to reschedule, not be forced into a forfeit or playing an 11v11 game with 9 kids.
 
bubster said:
How about this for annoying...belonging to a league (SoCal to be exact) that refuses to reschedule a game even when both teams are in agreement.

We are down 4 players this past 2 weeks due to injury, defection to other clubs and players being held hostage by club directors.

We need more time to address this and the answer is to reschedule, not be forced into a forfeit or playing an 11v11 game with 9 kids.
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Which clubs are holding players hostage?
 
This complaint falls under misleading recruiting.
I see it a lot! A manager or coach goes on social media recruiting players and lists tournament wins, or in the case that irked me today as 'State Cup Champions'. When you dig a little deeper, you see they won the bronze/flight 3 cups/tournaments. While it's technically true they brought home some hardware, it comes off disingenuous to me. At that level, you're probably not even a top 100 team in your age group..
 
soccerchaffeur said:
This complaint falls under misleading recruiting.
I see it a lot! A manager or coach goes on social media recruiting players and lists tournament wins, or in the case that irked me today as 'State Cup Champions'. When you dig a little deeper, you see they won the bronze/flight 3 cups/tournaments. While it's technically true they brought home some hardware, it comes off disingenuous to me. At that level, you're probably not even a top 100 team in your age group..
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This season, Norcal Premier asked clubs to state the actual bracket when posting about state cup wins on social media.
 
Strikers having tryouts at Great park. Making it seem like that's their home field. When in reality, they have to share fields with Liverpool and Pats and everybody else for their practices. And could only use small goals because the field is too cramped.
 
Jamisfoes said:
Strikers having tryouts at Great park. Making it seem like that's their home field. When in reality, they have to share fields with Liverpool and Pats and everybody else for their practices. And could only use small goals because the field is too cramped.
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That would be the same for Pats/Liverpool/slammers/west coast/blues as well.
 
My 2012, twin sons were in a tournament final this weekend. We've run into the opposing teams coach a few times over the past couple seasons, and this guy is always a huge douche bag...like next level douche. Yesterday, when one of our boys went down near his sideline, the coach quietly told him 'you're a flopper like Neymar and you're a terrible soccer player'. The kid broke down in tears after. My son heard him and told him to shut up. Mind you, my son is 9. Coach then got in a verbal confrontation with my boy! Why is this POS talking to our boys?!
 
soccerchaffeur said:
My 2012, twin sons were in a tournament final this weekend. We've run into the opposing teams coach a few times over the past couple seasons, and this guy is always a huge douche bag...like next level douche. Yesterday, when one of our boys went down near his sideline, the coach quietly told him 'you're a flopper like Neymar and you're a terrible soccer player'. The kid broke down in tears after. My son heard him and told him to shut up. Mind you, my son is 9. Coach then got in a verbal confrontation with my boy! Why is this POS talking to our boys?!
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Because no one calls him out to the community. He is allowed to exist in anonymity, without anyone becoming wise to his behavior. Let us know; what coach, what club, what team. B2012 is way too vague.
 
My favorite's the parent who talks to the coach before during and after every practice and game. You know, the one who also picks up the coaches bar tab at tournaments and slips a little extra something in with the coaches gift when the seasons over for never taking their kid out of the game.
 
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