One criteria to find a good team and coach

This would be one of my criteria to choose a team/coach for my DD.

"Let’s take a soccer coach who has fourteen families of 10 year olds paying $1000 plus per year for training as an example. If he wants to keep his job at most clubs, he better beat the local town team with the volunteer coach, or the neighboring club that only charges $400 in fees. But what if the other team has a man-child forward who can run by everyone, a man-child defender or goal keeper who can kick it over everyone’s head, and a coach who screams at everyone to kick it long? The coach trying to teach his players to actually play soccer, to pass it around the back, to use skill instead of athleticism, will likely lose this game if he does not possess his own ultra-fast growing man-children. If he has them, in order to get a result he benches his smaller kids because “they cannot compete’ with the big kids that day, and thus he keeps happy the parents of the 10 or so more athletically developed kids. Or, he plays everyone, loses, and deals with the grumbling parents who cannot understand why they pay so much to lose. Never mind the fact that if the coach is developing his players correctly, his team will win that same game 10 times out of 10 in a few years when athleticism is equal, and technique matters more. We ignore that. We have stopped thinking long term."


Resource:
Our Unhealthy Obsession with Childhood Athletic Achievement
http://changingthegameproject.com/our-unhealthy-obsession-with-childhood-athletic-achievement/

No disrespect, but I hardly think this is new or enlightening information that both informed coaches and parents don't already know.

Now, will even knowing this ever change the mindset of the majority involved? Probably not.

What your asking for is for 2 different divisions to play in...both of them based on the Height of your 10yr old.

If your Taller than "X" inches, then you play in Division A........all others play in Division B.

It exists... it call Rec soccer. 1,000s of kids play Rec and love it. It is cheap and fun and everyone gets a trophy. There are also kids who need more of a challenge. I would equate this to the Gifted and Talented programs at school. If your have a child that displays a more motivated, higher leaning level you get them into a program that supports that.

PG: always enlightening the masses with your posts. You need me to PM you any updates like before? Or you find them all yourself?

AKeepersMomma wrote:It exists... it call Rec soccer.  1,000s of kids play Rec and love it. It is cheap and fun and everyone gets a trophy.  There are also kids who need more of a challenge. I would equate this to the Gifted and Talented programs at school. If your have a child that displays a more motivated, higher leaning level you get them into a program that supports that.  

As Randy Newman says: "short people got no reason to live"