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Originally Posted by oldman
Ideally, that's the way it should be. In reality, this is a competitive league and the coach is paid to win. Just like the bigs, no wins equal no job. Having "The Talk" with the coach or any other official isn't going to do any good. It's a competitive league.
So what's the answer? Move the kid to a rec league and send him to a camp to improve his skills. The problem with that is there aren't enough rec leagues and coaches to go around. Why aren't there enough leagues? Because it costs to pay for a field to play on and refs to officiate games. Why aren't there enough coaches? Because they're unpaid dads unwilling to spend the time and effort coach. Then they have to put up with Karens that cry that little Sebastian isn't getting to play forward. So what if he's busy watching butterflies or picking his nose, he should play forward!!! And those participation trophies --who pays for those?
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I can say with absolute, 100% certainty, that 8-year-old soccer is anything but "Competitive League" worthy. The people that want to consider it "competitive" are as delusional and stupid as the coach. The only thing that even makes it remotely "competitive" is that they keep score and someone will win and someone will lose. The fact that winning and losing should matter at that age is completely ridiculous and that is nothing but the fault of complete idiots for parents driving that point. If parents like Pete want to actually fix this, it starts with them breaking down the notion that sport at 8-years of age is competitively equivalent to it at 14. A coach, at this stage, should be focused on teaching and not winning.