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re: Is travel soccer worse then travel "ball"?
Posted on 6/16/20 at 2:20 pm to The Spleen
Posted on 6/16/20 at 2:20 pm to The Spleen
It's sas.if you don't have means to do club, you can't play forthe high school team
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Posted on 6/16/20 at 2:45 pm to The Spleen
quote:Lets not forget that half of those parents don't know what offsides is....I know, I was one
Parents of 5-8 year olds are just out there for their kids to have a good time and burn some energy. I
Posted on 6/16/20 at 3:07 pm to tigerfoot
I've pretty much talked my daughter out of doing competitive/travel this coming year. She played in a rec league that was co-ed when she was 7-8. They split off at age 9, and it was a 9-10 league. At 11 they started going to single year only, but the league she was in only had 4 girls her age, so if she stayed there she would have to play up, and unfortunately for her she got mine and my wife's short white genes. We switched leagues, and the first year was kind of rough. This past year she got a great coach, who is also going to coach them next year if she continues. But the park they're going to train in is further from the house. One of her best friends that lives near us is playing rec and we can carpool to/from practice. I think a year off with no travel tournaments, 2-3 90 minute practices per week, and multiple games whenever we have a game weekend is going to be nice. I honestly don't mind the tournaments. We go to a city a couple hours away and get to try some local places to eat. Had one in Huntsville last fall, and we had a Nashville tourney planned before COVID sidelined all youth sports. And the local tournaments here are nice because family has multiple chances to come watch her play.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 4:13 pm to Floyd Dawg
In terms of time and money, I feel like we’ve had to invest a lot less for soccer but still get a lot of it. Practices are twice a week, although we sometimes we do 1 extra goalkeeper training or conditioning session part of the season. Fall and spring season are both about 3 months long, with maybe 12 regular games and a couple of tournaments. We usually only “travel” for one tourney because our club hosts the other. Fees are extremely reasonable, much lower than comparable clubs in the area.
I agree. This is the one real drawback for us. Our son’s club actually makes all the players and parents sign a contract at the beginning of each season that states that if we don’t act in a positive, respectful manner, we can be removed from a game or kicked out of the club entirely. (They enforce it, too.)
Most of the clubs we play clearly have no such agreement. The parents scream insults at the kids (ours included), harass the officials, and generally act like fools; the kids just play dirty and talk back to the officials when they get called for it. A lot of the coaches are every bit as bad. The ugliest games tend to be the ones against more exclusive/expensive clubs, because it seems like they get highly offended when our smaller, more laid-back club actually dares to be competitive — or, heaven forbid, wins handily. It takes a lot of the fun out of it, unfortunately.
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I referee "travel" soccer. The parents are insufferable, so insufferable in fact that Georgia Soccer instituted a rule that if a spectator (parent) complains about a referee call/non-call, they are to be immediately ejected from the park. They've run too many young officials out of the sport.
I agree. This is the one real drawback for us. Our son’s club actually makes all the players and parents sign a contract at the beginning of each season that states that if we don’t act in a positive, respectful manner, we can be removed from a game or kicked out of the club entirely. (They enforce it, too.)
Most of the clubs we play clearly have no such agreement. The parents scream insults at the kids (ours included), harass the officials, and generally act like fools; the kids just play dirty and talk back to the officials when they get called for it. A lot of the coaches are every bit as bad. The ugliest games tend to be the ones against more exclusive/expensive clubs, because it seems like they get highly offended when our smaller, more laid-back club actually dares to be competitive — or, heaven forbid, wins handily. It takes a lot of the fun out of it, unfortunately.
Posted on 6/16/20 at 4:27 pm to Boo Krewe
i played travel soccer most of my youth in the north shore area
you could just imagine all of the karens out there with their special little boy they fork out thousands for professional coaching so they would make the highest level competitive team. Then there is the whole friends with x people, thus they put in a good word and that player makes the team and the "i don't like x person", and they don't make it
you could just imagine all of the karens out there with their special little boy they fork out thousands for professional coaching so they would make the highest level competitive team. Then there is the whole friends with x people, thus they put in a good word and that player makes the team and the "i don't like x person", and they don't make it
Posted on 6/16/20 at 4:32 pm to DeepBlueSea
i played a game where i fouled someone by the sideline and some woman got up screaming at me that i was going to kill someone
This post was edited on 6/16/20 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 6/17/20 at 9:12 am to bbap
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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.
If your kid is busy with travel ball, dance, gymnastics, whatever...if they are busy, learn time management skills, learn to be coachable and to lead, learn how to get along, how to work hard and not expect immediate results, how to win and lose gracefully, etc. These skills are priceless and stay with them well into adulthood. Sports are a great investment. They don't learn this from just playing on a rec team for a couple of months a year.
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