A Maryland league is dealing with inappropriate parent behavior through team sportsmanship liaisons and if that doesn’t work, banishment from the sidelines.
Entries Tagged ‘sportsmanship’
An Amazing Story Of Sportsmanship
When all we seem to see are negative stories about youth sports in the media, it’s wonderful to hear about stories of sportsmanship and selflessness in youth soccer. An AYSO coach, whose team was eliminated from a regional tournament in California, discovered the winners could not go on to the next round for financial reasons and decided to try and do something about it with the help of a local radio personality and the WPS LA SOL.
Is Your Youth Soccer Team Professional?
The smallest gestures and acts by a youth soccer team can be the difference between a good team and a great team.
Highlighting Good Sportsmanship
A longtime OTP reader shared this with me recently:
Today at my U14 game, my daughter made a diving save and deflected the ball past the post. The referee signaled for a goal kick and she shouted to him “Ref, it was out off my hand, it should be a corner.” He listened [...]
No Post Match Handshake?
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Joyce Bassett of ÂYouth Sports recently wrote about a spat of unsporting conduct during post match handshakes between opponents and wondered if that tradition had run its course:
I remember several years ago my daughter was complaining about doing post-game handshakes because she once saw a girl spit on her hands. I also remember coaching an [...]
Is It Ever OK To Throw A Match?
I was bouncing around YouTube and I came upon this video from last year’s US Youth Soccer Nation Championship, U15 Girls bracket. I’ll admit it’s a bit late to post about something like this, but it was so bizarre, I couldn’t resist.
The team in black [...]
USYS Parent Education Program
The national US soccer associations are coming out with some very useful materials for parent and coach education.
