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re: Is travel soccer worse then travel "ball"?
Posted on 6/16/20 at 10:06 am to Supermoto Tiger
Posted on 6/16/20 at 10:06 am to Supermoto Tiger
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Soccer is for those that can't play football, baseball, basketball.
Couldn't be more wrong. Football kids stick out like a sore thumb on a soccer field. The kids that play WR or DB can translate ok because they are used to dealing with space. The others can't figure it out.
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Posted on 6/16/20 at 10:07 am to Hat Tricks
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Travel ball is definitely not something my family would enjoy doing but the obsession with how other people spend their lives is pretty odd.
they will spend 100k on braxton to play travel ball just to watch him sell insurance or run casing for an oil field company.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 10:11 am to CP3LSU25
People also spend thousands of money on dance lessons, music lessons, etc as well. Most wont become professionals either.
If it makes your kid happy who really cares? It's certainly overpriced, no denying that. But it's wild how offended people seem to get on how people spend their money. You seem to think the kid has to become a MLB player one day in order for the money to be a good investment.
Now parents that take it too seriously are naturally just the absolute worst.
If it makes your kid happy who really cares? It's certainly overpriced, no denying that. But it's wild how offended people seem to get on how people spend their money. You seem to think the kid has to become a MLB player one day in order for the money to be a good investment.
Now parents that take it too seriously are naturally just the absolute worst.
This post was edited on 6/16/20 at 10:12 am
Posted on 6/16/20 at 10:15 am to bbap
The expensive part was hotel rooms and eating out. We pay tournament fees, cheap when spread out over 15 families, and for uniforms. Have to rent a space to practice, but there’s usually a ‘home tournament’ to try and recoup that. Most soccer clubs are run by pretty cool folks, they’re not getting rich off of this.
ETA: I just looked at the website for my son’s club...$225 to register and $600 training fee. $166.76 uniform...doubt that’s including a set of training jerseys. My boy was recruited to squad last year and didn’t pay any of these...guess we need to this year. So...I was bit WRONG.
ETA: I just looked at the website for my son’s club...$225 to register and $600 training fee. $166.76 uniform...doubt that’s including a set of training jerseys. My boy was recruited to squad last year and didn’t pay any of these...guess we need to this year. So...I was bit WRONG.
This post was edited on 6/16/20 at 10:26 am
Posted on 6/16/20 at 11:03 am to Floyd Dawg
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Serious question for the travel ball parents. When you go to tournaments, do you have enough umpires to staff all the games? I assume you need 2 umpires per game.
Usually our division is all on one maybe 2 fields. The same guys that are there at 8 am are the same ones there at 10 pm. I don’t know how they do it with no break.
I used to umpire travel softball. I might could have handled that workload 20 years ago. But back then, there were enough umps to go around. Enough that 3 umps got assigned to a field where you would work 2, sit 1, work 2, sit 1. Umpires were always fresh and not worn out and dragging by 6pm after being in the stifling heat that long.
It changed about 10 years ago here. A lot of my older colleagues retired and the newer ones often can’t be bothered to read a rule book or get properly trained.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 11:20 am to Gaston
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Most teams who play out of the back and knock it around ‘correctly’ lose in U11-U13 years anyway. The kick ball teams with the fast kids up front shine...until they don’t.
Coaching these kids when they got to HS was sometimes miserable partly because they were led to believe they won state, regional, and national championships every weekend when they played club. The second part was at young ages they had success taking advantage of the space you have playing kick and run when you are 9-12 years old but as you get older players can cover more space and the kick and run becomes less effective. It’s difficult when kids had success previously doing it a different way.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 11:22 am to Boo Krewe
hard to get a scholarship as a boy. easier as a girl. she doesnt even have to be good at soccer, they just need her to cancel out some football scholarships.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 12:46 pm to Boo Krewe
I love middle aged losers projecting on to their children.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 12:58 pm to bbap
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People also spend thousands of money on dance lessons, music lessons, etc as well.
Because the dad can't get laid unless he spends all his hard earned money on dance lessons and music lesson that the mother forces him to spend from his paycheck.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:06 pm to Winston Cup
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hard to get a scholarship as a boy. easier as a girl. she doesnt even have to be good at soccer, they just need her to cancel out some football scholarships.
wrong
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:20 pm to Saskwatch
I hope my kid doesn't fall in love with soccer. It's the only sport I have no interest in watching. My wife played college soccer so I'm sure she'll be pushing it on them. I'm sure anything my kid plays I'll be interested in, but man soccer is just so boring. Plus I would have zero coaching advice for him.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:21 pm to whoisnickdoobs
Get drunk and go to Londoner
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:41 pm to whoisnickdoobs
Personally I hope my son enjoys playing but it was absurd the amount of time and money my parents spent when I was growing up. And no one I knew personally went on to play professionally or got anything other than a partial scholarship to college somewhere
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:51 pm to Boo Krewe
Soccer sucks way worse than baseball/softball.
That’s all I got.
That’s all I got.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 1:58 pm to Gaston
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Travel soccer, or club tournament ball, was fun, and my son gained a great deal of confidence from the experiences. He retired from tournament ball after winning the U13 state cup, and now he just plays in regional leagues. It was a good run though.
this is an awesome post for this thread. im not even sure you realize it 
Posted on 6/16/20 at 2:02 pm to Floyd Dawg
quote:We have two, and they work their asses off. They put up with zero bullshite from coaches and as my kid has gotten older you dont hear much from the fans other than a 'come on blue' and a 'what was that"
When you go to tournaments, do you have enough umpires to staff all the games? I assume you need 2 umpires per game.
Now 7u and 8u coach pitch parents, holy shite, you couldn't pay me enough.
This post was edited on 6/16/20 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 6/16/20 at 2:05 pm to saderade
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it was absurd the amount of time and money my parents spent when I was growing up
Looking back, I'm kind of ashamed at the sacrifices my parents made for me to play club soccer. I got some good memories and lifelong friends out of it, but by the last few months of playing, I had completely lost interest in playing the sport. I left the team the summer after 9th grade and haven't really played since. I did ref for several years, so I didn't completely abandon the sport. I get occasional calls still seeing if I had interest in reffing again. I've considered doing it for the 5-8 year olds. No way I'm reffing kids older than that.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 2:09 pm to saderade
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Personally I hope my son enjoys playing but it was absurd the amount of time and money my parents spent when I was growing up. And no one I knew personally went on to play professionally or got anything other than a partial scholarship to college somewhere
Dude, you don't have to tell me. My sister was the athlete in the family. It was insane the amount of time an money mom spent on her. She ended up getting a full time scholarship so I guess it was worth it in the end.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 2:09 pm to tigerfoot
Ha, it's the complete opposite for soccer in my experience. Parents of 5-8 year olds are just out there for their kids to have a good time and burn some energy. It's not that competitive. Around 10, things get bad. 13-14 year olds are the worst games to ref, or were when I did it.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 2:14 pm to Boo Krewe
As long as the kid knows there's basically no financial future in soccer, let em have at it.
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