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Entries Tagged ‘travel-soccer’
Sitting Back or Taking Risks?
Sometimes as a coach, you realize you can only push your team so far and they have to push themselves to really improve as players. The question is, are the risks worth it to try and get them pushing themselves. How can you get them to do that? Here’s the story of a team taking some risks to improve. Will it work? Only time will tell.
Geographic Schedules
As leagues gear up for the Fall season, discussions are underway across the country on which teams will be placed into which brackets and which teams will play each other. Now a new discussion is taking place – how much will it cost to play those matches. A while back we talked about the impact [...]
Gas Prices and Youth Sports
CNN picks up on something we were talking about a few months ago – how will high gas prices affect youth soccer? They have a video up that talks about the impact of high gas prices on youth sports, with the reporter following a girls soccer team to the Georgia State Cup. The interviews with [...]
Tryouts Are Trying For Everyone
I read a comment recently that got me thinking about tryouts for select teams and how they are often perceived by parents:
To the clubs it’s all a number, to the child waiting at home it’s personal.
There is no question that tryouts can be a very stressful and difficult time for kids. Those trying out for [...]
When Will Gas Prices Start To Affect Youth Soccer?
$3/gallon gasoline is not shocking for people any more as we’ve seen prices at that level for some time now. But the latest Energy Dept forecast calls for prices to peak at $3.40/gal in the Spring, though given how fast they have risen already, some expect $4/gallon is not out of the realm of possibility. [...]
Pros and Cons of Travel Youth Soccer
There is an interesting thread going on over at Talk On The Pitch about the pros and cons of travel soccer for U10 age players. I see a number of search referrals for ‘Pros and Cons of Travel Soccer‘ both here and at TOTP. Even locally I know a number of long time Rec parents [...]
Getting Ready For Tryouts
Over at Soccer Parents, they have an excellent post up about getting ready for tryouts – a rite of passage in Spring for many soccer players. Only problem is it got posted May 31st, and at least here in North Carolina, most clubs have already finished tryouts. But it’s an excellent post all the same. [...]
Proof That Soccer Dad Is Certifiable…
I’ll never forget the feeling I had before my first practice coaching a U6 soccer team. I was scared to death and these were just 5 year olds. What would I do, how would I handle them as young as they were, what drills, activities, and games should I do? The first match I was [...]
