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Thoughts on Youth Soccer from a Soccer Dad, Fan, Coach and Administrator

Entries Tagged ‘playing time’

Playing Time Is Not A Punishment

Playing time is one of the most valued things to a young soccer player. It may seem like that would make taking it away a great motivational tool or method of punishment, but doing so is the fastest way to turn a kids off to soccer permanently.

Equitable Playing Time

This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about equitable playing time here, but we recently had a ras hof parent complaints in our Rec league, so we took some action and that spawned an interesting debate among our coaches.

Our league mandates that all Recreational players should play a minimum of 50% of the match, except [...]