RandomSoccerFan
GOLD
(Be right back, sending a 30-yr old invoice to my parents.....)
HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER TRYOUTS ARE A RIGGED SHITSTORM AND I'M PISSED ABOUT IT
- Thread starter FrankoRunner99
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Totally agree with this. My point is a poor kid shouldn’t use the lack of access to private training as an excuse. Watch some YouTube videos and go out practice on your own. You can get pretty far with some talent and having the love for the game.
Code
GOLD
For a 15 year old you are an excellent writer. Maybe look into the Journalism Club at your school, I'll bet you become a Varsity contributor.
Code
GOLD
Nailed it. The reality of success in life is a team effort. People who make their kids suffer and work hard just to get by, because "that is what my parents did to me", are just continuing the life disadvantage onto the next generation in their family. If we want to succeed like the Rich, you have to look at how they do it.
rainbow_unicorn
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FrankoRunner99
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I needed to vent. Seeing those Varsity bastards at school flexing like they just got signed by Man City or some shit pisses me offOP checked out of this conversation before it hit the end of page 1
FrankoRunner99
BRONZE
Probably. Just hoping there's no Journalism MLS Next Academy kids writing 10 pages under 1 min during tryouts
FrankoRunner99
BRONZE
Oh no. OH NO !!!!!! ATTITUDE !!!!!! I absolutely fucking LOVED Coach Clipboard's attitude when he was too busy playing Fortnite with his Varsity Buddies on the field while I was working the shit out of my body running back and forth like an absolute moron in heat that'd make Satan beg for a sip of PISS without stopping even though nobody passed to me for shit. "Uhhhhhghhh I appreciate your effort and commitment, kid, but we don't feel like you could make a huge impact..!"
Well you are right it’s not that much of a flex. The kids who made mls academy teams are sniggering at the varsity players. But note it is a threshold you weren’t able to cross so stay humble.
Now you might very well be right and politics had SOMETHING to do with it. But politics is usually the tie breaker. If you were Pulisic out there, you’d be on the team. If you were Pulisic out there, Sunday league or not, you’d be spotted and given a free ride at an academy team or an MLS Next Team. So the harsh reality kid is you aren’t the best of the best and you, as a result, didn’t deserve anything.
Here’s a harsh truth about the meritocratic garbage you’ve been told about most of your life (and you may as well learn this lesson now). It’s not always about how hard you work. Some of it is innate talent: it’s your responsibility to find an innate talent you love and not everything you love will bend to your innate talents.That doesn’t mean give soccer up: if you love it go enjoy it.
But if you want to make the team in future years, stop feeling sorry for yourself and first figure out what you need to do to get there, and second be honest if you have the talent for that even to be a possibility. That means becoming the best so there’s no question of politics sidelining your selection, and being honest about what your deficiencies are: technical skill, iq, attitude. If it’s skill, sorry Sunday league just ain’t going to cut it if you are going up against letter league kids who are at practice every other day year round. The only exception to this is if you told us you were so good you were offered a free ride at a club, but turned it down— in which case you made your choices so why complain about them.
I will say this. You maybe didn't make the HS Team, but you can sure add alot of color and dimension to to a stressful hardship with your writing. That might be the most entertaining piece of work I've read on this site. No way are you in high school right? If you are, you write better than 95% of the adults I've met. I found the line below hilarious amongst many others.
Shorten this up with a few less cuss words or don't and you got yourself a great hit piece on HS Tryouts!
Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr
SILVER
I'm doing the opposite and slipping an invoice under my kid's door.
You're also hilarious! Great writer, great sense of humor and a willingness to call out the frauds at the top. You are going far, my friend. Promise me you'll stay fired up and go out and kick ass at whatever you end up doing in life.
Hey kid, you got style in your writing. True story. I was on my last year of becoming a P.E. Teacher and had to go observe one of the top high school baseball coaches in SoCal teach one of his PE classes. I went into sales instead after watching coach roll out a bag of soccer balls and let the kids play co-ed kickball. Dude went to the bench and read the sports page for 30 minutes as the kids played. When I had PE as a kid, we had a league, and it was super competitive and super fun and the winners' got medals. It was so fun.
FrankoRunner99
BRONZE
Thank you, kind stranger, for this glimmer of validation in the vast ocean of my shattered soccer dreams. No cap, this comment feels like a cold Gatorade after running suicides in 100-degree SoCal heat—hydrating my soul.
And yeah, I’m in high school. Sophomore. 15. Shocking, right? Guess getting absolutely DEMOLISHED by a corrupt soccer system unlocks a hidden talent for unhinged rants. Who knew all it took to channel my inner Hemingway was a Varsity coach with the emotional range of a traffic cone?
But hey, if soccer doesn’t work out (spoiler: it won’t because my LEFTOVER ASS GOT CUT), maybe I’ll try my luck writing spicy exposés on the SoCal Soccer Mafia Industrial Complex. Working title: “Ballers and Bastards: How I Survived the SoCal Soccer Mafia Without Tearing My ACL.”
Anyway, appreciate the hype. You’ve restored like… 4% of my faith in humanity.
FrankoRunner99
BRONZE
Damn, I came here to rage about getting cut from soccer, and now I’m leaving with a motivational speech that’s one step away from one of those edgy billionaire reels on Instagram with Lambos in the background or some shit. You might just be the real MVP here—unlike Coach Clipboard, who couldn’t pick talent if it dribbled up and nutmegged him.
I promise to stay fired up. Fired up at the system, fired up at the club kids with their $1,000 cleats that cost more than a ballsack, and fired up at the Varsity guys who probably have pre-game pedicures scheduled with the coach. But more importantly, fired up for whatever comes next. Maybe I’ll channel all this rage into becoming the next great satirical sports writer. Or maybe I’ll start a grassroots anti-club soccer movement. Either way, somebody’s getting their ass metaphorically kicked.
Appreciate the support, my friend. When I inevitably go viral for exposing the SoCal Youth Soccer Mafia, I’ll shout you out in the credits.
FrankoRunner99
BRONZE
Ah, yes, the classic "P.E. Teacher in Chill Mode" move—just roll out the balls and let the chaos unfold. Gotta respect the hustle, honestly. Why inspire the youth when you can vibe on the sidelines playing Subway Surfers on your cracked IPhone 5 ? That baseball coach sounds like a PE version of my high school's soccer coaches : zero effort, zero fucks given, and yet somehow still in charge of shaping young athletes.
Also, I’m low-key jealous of your PE memories. Medals? Leagues? Actual fun? Man, my PE class is just retarded TikTok kids pretending to be prime Kobe playing with half-deflated basketballs. While our old ass depressed teacher scrolls Instagram Reels in his chair while making the fat kids walk around the gym so they don't get -100 points taken from their Aeries. If there’s any “competition,” it’s over who can sneak back to the locker room fastest without getting caught.
You were right to dodge that profession, though. If SoCal sports culture has taught me anything, it’s that coaches can only be one of two things: legends or sleepwalking frauds. No in-between.
well that sucks. you could of been a pe teacher and made pe fun for the kids again. bummer
damn you can write!
I would have been a really good PE teacher and coach. It was my goal to coach high school basketball and teach health and PE to all the kid. I would have been fired in 2020 for not pushing the mask and the jabs.