Is there something really wrong with NTX soccer

10sDad wrote:It's called competetive sports - they keep score.  Wanna get a participation trophy and not keep score?  Then get off this board, because you probably won't like most of the comments here anyway.  Parents are competitive too - every parent I know roots for the team THEIR kid is on...wow!  And I have never heard them say that the ref called too many calls in their team's favor...ever.  It's been like that forever...you think a feel-good speech about "everybody is a winner" is gonna change a parent's enthusiasm to see their child succeed at the expense of others?  good luck with that.  Unless of course, you are stating that people should only feel emotion and think the thoughts as you and the thought police deem appropriate...ummm...yeah.

NTX referees - the thinnest skinned, ego-fragile bunch I have ever seen.  Combine that with some bad calls, and an inability to control the game, and everything goes downhill.  I've been around quite a while, and I can tell you that I have never seen a parent thrown out (and rarely needed to be) during a well-run match by the referee.  Only the bad ones seem to have the problems with the parents...why is that?  The good ones get an occaisional "c'mon" or whatever, but it never seems to go beyond that for some reason...hmmm...The bad ones also listen more to what the parents sideline is saying more than paying attention to the game.  They love the rush of power they get when they say "one more word and you are out-of-here!"...and the person HAS to shut up or not get to see little johnny play.

Academy is the devil - yeah, I said it.  I didn't like it when they proposed it, and I still don't.  For an athlete to achieve greatness in a sport, they must first love to play the "innocent" game.  With the stupid academies starting to cut players, promote and demote players between the 27 teams they have, and charging stupid money for what?  So your kid can get enormous amounts of pressure to perform in a game that they hardly know, and only want to experience the joy of playing an organized sport with their friends...(those friends are their schoolmates by the way - not collections of superstars whose parents drive them 2 hours round-trip to practice).  Academies only hurt the player by making the game to competitive too early, and introduces them to team/parent/player politics at a very young age - they never truly learn to love the sport.  All they seem to learn that fame and success trumps loyalty and true friendship, and you must always make sure to outshine your teammates/friends/co-workers or you will never get ahead in life.