Are we as adults ruining children’s sports? – Page 2 – Chat Forum

RoterStern · 2017-12-28T14:59:42Z

[urlIn my experience I would say a resounding yes. I have 4 kids and three of them have all given up on team sports for different reasons. My oldest, now sixteen, was in a super successful football team who for various reasons went from the top league of the area for U 14 to a middling league for U15 and won every game usuAlly 30-0 lost interest. We managed to get him into a semi professionall team at sixteen but he didn’t like the other boys in his team so gave up. IMO trying to be s unbiased as possible he is real footballing talent but the adults in the game just don’t seem to understand how teenagers tick. Son number two is also a keen footballer but not quite as talented as his older sibling. He had his interest drained from him by the performance related decisions of the coaches. All the kids were interested in weren’t the results but what the kids took home were the manner of the goals scored. I also saw first hand som argy bargy between fathers who took the game that little bit too seriously! Lastly child number three, my daughter who is very interested in gymnastics has found herself without a club because she didn’t make the grade to the next level at the age of eleven!!! Adults just don’t seem to realize that children’s interest in sport is not only performance related. I am a little reticent to get my youngest, aged six, involved in team sports if the only result is it puts him off sport for life.

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Paragraphs? ^^^^

Posted : 29/12/2017 1:03 pm

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I'm a qualified FA coach, whilst I was doing my Level 2 course a few of us asked the FA coach educator for some tips on how to include those of lesser ability in the sessions we run. His response was "tell them to find another sport".
He'd only ever been a coach with pro clubs & was an ex pro so had probably never seen true grass roots sport.

Posted : 29/12/2017 2:15 pm

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I used to be pretty good at running as a kid, county level anyways.

Then drink and girls came along. That trumped running around a field! I would like to tell 15yo me to stick at it, but he wouldn't of listened.

Posted : 29/12/2017 2:59 pm

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