Recent Trends in Youth Soccer - Must Read Below!
- atamayo5
- Aug 2, 2014
- 2 min read
Ultra-competitive early stage environments tend to have a greatly counterproductive effect on the child’s enjoyment in sports, resulting in extremely high attrition rates which are growing at alarming rates all over the U.S. In fact, many articles have been written about this most alarming trend in sports in the U.S., which address the great concern which parents need to understand about their child’s early stages of athletic development.
Understand that there is no correlation between intense early training and development and future success. Some of the greatest players in the world did not partake of organized soccer, until early adolescence or early teenage years. Of these, most were never pressured by their parents (possibly never even observed playing by them) and yet they attained the heights in their profession. Furthermore, please consider that less than 1% of active youth players, continue beyond high school and even less make it to a professional team or a national side.
Clubs and coaches are guilty of promoting a false environment and a hyped culture of future success, in order to charge inordinate amounts of money. You the parents are being manipulated and you then propagate this even further by burdening your own children to absurd performance levels and unreasonable practice loads…and overall expectations! In the process, the FUN is being extracted from the activity and soccer (or any other sport) becomes nothing more than a boring, unfulfilling routine!
NOT ALL PLAYERS WILL PLAY BEYOND MIDDLE SCHOOL, LESS WILL PLAY HIGH SCHOOL…EVEN LESS WILL PLAY IN COLLEGE…AND MAYBE ONE MAKES IT TO THE PROFESSIONAL TEAM OR NATIONAL SIDE!
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