Said it before. At 9/10 years old I'll take a coach who focuses on developing a team over a coach who just plays his starters to win games.
You are right. Lots of chatter everywhere about Eagles coaching at this level and above because it's non existant. They play to win with a brand of “play“ that doesn't transition to the next level as the girls get older. This is why they can't keep teams together and their top flight teams slowly fall apart. Starting at the younger ages. It's about development and having a coach who actually coaches and doesn't give in to the parental units demands.
Your team sounds like it grown from last year and you actually have a rare coach who focuses on developing a team for long term success. Thats a win in its self.
I understand but sometimes I don’t understand decisions made during big games that help potentially impact players confidence, wish I could share the game with you guys to show you how well our girls were moving the ball in the first half which shows how much they have developed their possession soccer. Eagles had no answer for us. It was just when you take out 3 starters at once and bring 3 subs from the bench that weren’t ready to play at the intensity that the players on the field had at the current moment that made me go like what’s going on??? That to me changed the dynamics of
the game and Eagles exploited that to the fullest extent. I would have just eased in the subs. 1 by 1 to minimize any big damage that could be done by the other team and to let fresh players adjust to the game’s intensity. If there is a development reason for this that I’m over looking then I may be wrong. It’s like let’s just throw them to the sharks and watch them to see if they can get out of this scenario. Just my 2 cents.