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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 2253090, member: 1646"] I am a fan of no coaching the kid with the ball. My son's (now former) coach was a joystick coach that constantly yelled "shoot!" even when the kid didn't even have clean possession. I love the guy as a person, but I'm glad that his team is being taken "Premier Track" and going with the trainer as coach. That being said, I don't like your coaches method either. If he's "sabotaging" to build character or something, or is he's "giving other kids a chance to get out of their comfort zone" by switching positions, I think it has a place, but not a prominent one. I believe that the goal should not be winning at all costs, but there's nothing wrong with winning being a byproduct of playing the right way. I'm assuming from your numbers, you are 2004 or so (11v11). I'm a fan of a team being in a flight and going slightly over .500. Losing most/all of your games is tough on young kids and they don't learn how to find a way to win in a close game. Re the parent, ours are fine on the whole (I don't get the full impact of the girls team because I'm on the player side). But I had a funny story. When my son was a U8 (doesn't even exist 8v8 anymore!), we had a kid that was really good, but his parents were super intense. The dad was harmless, but the mom would teeter on inappropriate every game. We were at a tournament and were undefeated going into our last game against PDA. The game was chippy because their kids knew how to slide tackle and ours didn't know how to get tackled. Her son broke through the defense and was 1 on 1 with the goalie to tie the score in the second half. He got taken out. We don't even know if the ref made a call because the mom ran onto the field and went after the ref. PDA pulled their team so the game ended. My son still claims he won because they forfeited (like my glory of beating Kearny in high school... after their top guys were gone or playing at private schools). The mom got into another fight with the parents and coach a Northern NJ premier club later in the season and then her son joined that team. Then we played against them and she got into an argument with our team (despite being from the same tiny town). We've lost some good players over the years that we'd be better with, but we are absolutely a better team without this kid. [/QUOTE]

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