People rant about soccer all the time, but every once in a while, someone makes claims so outlandish, you can’t let it go by. Did you know youth soccer was ruing America? And here all this time I thought it was fast food.
Entries Tagged ‘sports’
Diet Gatorade??? Isn’t That Water?
Faced with increasing pressure from other beverage makers and the popularity of diet soft drinks, PepsiCo announced that Gatorade would introduce a low-calorie version later this year:
PepsiCo’s chairman and chief executive, Indra K. Nooyi, said consumers had consistently requested a lower-calorie version of Gatorade. While the drink is formulated for athletes while they are working [...]
Why Players Play
I’ve had this in my draft queue forever – I’m so slack. LDSM posted this months ago and I’ve been meaning to share it because it’s a great take on soccer from a player’s viewpoint. Not sure if the girls at New Generation Soccer wrote this or not (can’t find it in Google beyond a [...]
Soccer Can Be A Religion, But…
We all know soccer can be a religion to its many fans around the world, but a line gets crossed when religion is used to mold a soccer team. At a public university.
Over at TBogg, he highlights a recent situation at San Diego State University where four players were thrown off the team, including their [...]
How Can Anyone Be So Selfish and Arrogant?
What was this father THINKING? I don’t care HOW good you think your kid might be, how could you ruin the season of a group of dedicated kids like this just to enact revenge on a coach for not submitting to your dictatorial edicts?
The South County Raptors, a scrappy football team made up of [...]
Wish Us Luck!
Sorry for the light posting. This is tournament week for my U10 Storm. We’re headed to Shelby for the NCYSA Rec State Cup this weekend so I probably won’t be able to post much. We’re also smack in the middle of our league tournament, so it’ll be a whirlwind up through next weekend! Wish us [...]
A Home on the Field
Thanks to a few down days when it was raining and the Challenge season took a pause for a weekend, I was able to read A Home on the Field by Paul Cuadros. Of course those down days were quickly followed by absolute chaos so I didn’t get a chance to finish this [...]
Equitable Playing Time – Reloaded
Wow. This puts the equitable playing time rules common in youth soccer leagues into a whole new perspective.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A father pulled a gun on a youth football coach because his son wasn’t getting enough playing time, police said.
Wayne Derkotch, 40, was arguing with the coach Sunday morning during a [...]
Showing The Ref Some Love … Or Not
I can’t help but think that while the vast majority of youth soccer referees make honest mistakes, some just relish being jerks about it. While this has been, in my experience, far and away the exception, it’s still causing parents heartburn. Referees tolerate a LOT of abuse from fans/parents which is uncalled for. But sometimes [...]
QOTW: Most Unusual Thing In Your Bag
This is for all the coaches out there. Many of us cart around sports bags filled with a variety of things to practices, matches, pickup games, etc. Well, I know I do. Just off the top of my head I know I have the following in there:
Cleats, first aid kit, sleeve of water cups, cones, [...]
You Need to Read Soccerhead, Right Now!
It doesn’t matter if you are a fan, parent, coach, or administrator. It doesn’t matter if all you’ve ever known was MLS and pro ball and haven’t ever seen a youth soccer match. It doesn’t matter if you’ve only become a soccer fan since you caught that one World Cup match by accident in a [...]
The War On Homework Continues
I wrote an article recently about the ever growing amount of homework kids are getting and wondering how kids who choose to play sports are dealing with it. This was in response to a couple of great posts over at White Trash Mom.
It may just be me, but I seem to have noticed that the [...]
Coaching From The Sideline – Sometimes
As any youth coach who has taken a USSF coaching class knows, you are encouraged to pretty much sit quietly on the sidelines during matches and not instruct players. This is great advice – the idea being if they don’t know it already, they aren’t likely to figure it out in the frantic activity of [...]
