re: "Unlucky" -- the participation trophy of soccer tems

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I hate ‘good pass’ when in fact it was just a ‘good thought’ or more likely just ‘bad pass’ but yea you’re right...you’d never say that.

Pass execution should never be luck though, get your body in the correct position and make a good pass. When young players who don’t often connect on passes try and be too cute it pisses me off...and we’re no longer in ‘good thought’ territory. It’s just lazy and show off, and you couldn’t even do that with 10 tries.

I swear though, coaches think they work on passing enough and put-it-to luck or lack there of...when kids just need to get goddamn better. Grinds my gears to see midfielders who can’t put the ball in the right spot. Sure as F isn’t unlucky.

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There is obviously a lot of nuance to this, though. If they exhibit the correct fundamentals or try a high risk pass that doesn't work out, it's not always down to being lazy or a show off. The other team is working equally hard (theoretically) to thwart the attempted pass.

So, I agree with you on one hand and disagree on the other. If you try some sort of back pass or no look pass to be cute and it is intercepted, I would hope no coach says "unlucky" to that. However, if a player attempts a weighted through ball that is intercepted or runs long, (but it was a sound idea) that could be "unlucky".

No one is perfect and not even Messi/Ronaldo have a 100% pass completion record. Obviously, you would hope that a player does not interpret "unlucky" as "do that exactly like that over and over, hoping that one day it works." If that is the case, I would hope a good coach could help communicate adjustments to technique to match the physical with the mental side.