Apr 21, 2023
7:14:09am
7:14:09am
It's rec, but it's unquestionably the most competitive rec league in the area (I live in Houston, so there are many to choose from).
I have 10 kids on my team. Of the ten,
- Four are talented enough to have any prayer at all of scoring a goal. The other 6 just aren't coordinated enough yet to put it together to put the ball in the back of the net.
- Two of the remaining six are good and try hard. They are a joy to coach.
- The last four drive me nuts. One doesn't listen to anything I say at all. He does whatever he wants, which isn't much, and is often just standing there doing nothing at all. Another almost never shows up for practice, but then shows up to games and gets equal playing time as the others (since that's the expectation from the league), even though he doesn't have a clue what he's doing. Another has openly told me that he hates soccer, and he wishes his mom would stop putting him in it. The last one is just a space cadet, he gets distracted very easily, but also doesn't seem to like soccer as much as he does picking weeds in the grass. All four of these kids are there because their parents put them in it, and they like the after game snacks more than about anything else.
My number one goal with the kids is to help them have fun and be fit playing soccer. But man, there are a couple of kids on the team that I don't think I could coach again. They just make me not enjoy the *volunteer* job very much. And it drives me nuts that they are on the same team as my boy, who cares a lot about soccer, and I have to give them equal playing time, even though I don't think those kids even care.
I think Cambo was intentionally trying to stir the pot a little bit with the way he worded his post, so I don't take him seriously. Nor do I agree with him, I think kids who WANT to play and WANT to improve and get better should have that opportunity. But I also don't think parents should put their kids on team sports unless the kid really wants to be there. And I wonder if an experience like this is perhaps on Cambo's mind.
I have 10 kids on my team. Of the ten,
- Four are talented enough to have any prayer at all of scoring a goal. The other 6 just aren't coordinated enough yet to put it together to put the ball in the back of the net.
- Two of the remaining six are good and try hard. They are a joy to coach.
- The last four drive me nuts. One doesn't listen to anything I say at all. He does whatever he wants, which isn't much, and is often just standing there doing nothing at all. Another almost never shows up for practice, but then shows up to games and gets equal playing time as the others (since that's the expectation from the league), even though he doesn't have a clue what he's doing. Another has openly told me that he hates soccer, and he wishes his mom would stop putting him in it. The last one is just a space cadet, he gets distracted very easily, but also doesn't seem to like soccer as much as he does picking weeds in the grass. All four of these kids are there because their parents put them in it, and they like the after game snacks more than about anything else.
My number one goal with the kids is to help them have fun and be fit playing soccer. But man, there are a couple of kids on the team that I don't think I could coach again. They just make me not enjoy the *volunteer* job very much. And it drives me nuts that they are on the same team as my boy, who cares a lot about soccer, and I have to give them equal playing time, even though I don't think those kids even care.
I think Cambo was intentionally trying to stir the pot a little bit with the way he worded his post, so I don't take him seriously. Nor do I agree with him, I think kids who WANT to play and WANT to improve and get better should have that opportunity. But I also don't think parents should put their kids on team sports unless the kid really wants to be there. And I wonder if an experience like this is perhaps on Cambo's mind.
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