I think I agree. If someone is a great long distance runner but has two left feet, what's the point in then playing football? Stick to what you're good at.
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Controversial, but, should kids be playing football at this time of year?
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I think I agree. If someone is a great long distance runner but has two left feet, what's the point in then playing football? Stick to what you're good at.
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Sorry but I have played cricket (albeit not too often) and being a fielder in the outfield is dull compared to being behind the stumps, bowling or close in. Football is more active for all players and the only time someone gets really bored is if they are the goalkeeper in a vastly superior team and therefore never get to touch the ball!!!!
I suspect you are sadly correct. Pushy Parent Syndrome is a very nasty thing in any form.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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I ran a kids team for 10 years for boys from under 9s right through to under 18s
W used to stop training for the best part of 3 months,early May through to mid/late July, just playing in 2 or 3 six a side tournaments.
Me and the others guy who ran the team needed a break, as we believed, did the kids.
The guys who ran the teams a year above us, and a year below, used to continue throughout the year, saying that if they stopped training then they feared their boys would go and train elsewhere, and possibly drift off to other teams.
I may have lost one or two boys over the years, although i don't believe that was the reason, in fact 9 of the boys who started with me at Under 9 played our last ever game.
The interesting thing is, that once we finished, pretty much all of them went on to play adults football.
Unfortunately the same can't be said of the boys who played in the aforementioned teams, a year older/younger than my age group, where only a very few are still involved in football.
I honestly believe that kids play too much football, too young theses days.
W used to stop training for the best part of 3 months,early May through to mid/late July, just playing in 2 or 3 six a side tournaments.
Me and the others guy who ran the team needed a break, as we believed, did the kids.
The guys who ran the teams a year above us, and a year below, used to continue throughout the year, saying that if they stopped training then they feared their boys would go and train elsewhere, and possibly drift off to other teams.
I may have lost one or two boys over the years, although i don't believe that was the reason, in fact 9 of the boys who started with me at Under 9 played our last ever game.
The interesting thing is, that once we finished, pretty much all of them went on to play adults football.
Unfortunately the same can't be said of the boys who played in the aforementioned teams, a year older/younger than my age group, where only a very few are still involved in football.
I honestly believe that kids play too much football, too young theses days.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Very true.
And some Coaches / Managers of kids football need to stop putting pressure on kids to continue training throughout the summer.
Each to his own of course, but I've never been bored playing cricket - even fielding in the outfield, you get to touch the ball a lot of the time. And, of course, everyone gets a turn to bat when you are the complete centre of attention for a while.
On the other hand,I once played centre back in a football match where we won 13-0: I think I touched the ball twice - that was an incredibly dull experience.
They're two completely different games - that's the appeal
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
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Pah! I tried to learn my craft in traffic free street of Birdham Rd in the 70's, as soon as the bigger boys had 'their bat' they'd bugger off indoors to watch The Tomorrow People