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Tough times don't last, tough people do 😤
Atlanta, GA
Joined February 2009
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Even if you don’t like Georgia, it’s hard not to love Kirby Smart.
#GoDawgs
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Soccer Sheet asked #USWNT head coach Emma Hayes about the United States' early exit from the U-20 World Cup, and what that means for the player development pipeline in the US.
Her answer is detailed, candid, and worth listening to in full:
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If your players only know what to do because you taught them A → B → C, they probably don’t understand the game as well as you think they do.
Hürzeler talks here about teaching the game through principles instead of fixed routes.
Because the opponent changes, the space changes, the moment changes, the answer can’t always stay the same.
The whole point is that players understand enough about what matters that they can find the solution themselves. Otherwise we’re not really teaching them football. We’re teaching them choreography.
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September 3rd, 2021: Virginia Tech runs out to Enter Sandman to a full crowd after COVID before an upset win over #10 UNC #Hokies
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⚽️ A youth football coach has gone viral for saying this on social media:
🗣️ “Don’t leave kids on the bench for an entire game just because your ego can’t handle losing.
Nobody will remember the result of an U11 match in a few years.
BUT the kids will remember how you made them feel!”
🤔 𝗗𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗘: Do you agree with him?
I sit and watch about 80% of my u13 and u14 games. The vast majority of my coaching takes place during the week and at halftime. You have to let these kids own the game they play. That’s how they discover, learn and figure the game out.
Fellow coaches - what do you think of absolute zero coaching for the sideline, for a U13 game? Make comments to the players before the game, and during halftime, and of course after the game ends. But absolutely no coaching, directing players, or motivating them to work harder during the game.
What do you think?
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Youth football/soccer parents who make their kid switch clubs every single year because their kid didn’t make the exact team they thought they deserved…
I still don’t get it.
This club hopping is way more common than I realized, and it’s not helping the kids.
Development isn’t a yearly team chase.
Consistency, relationships with coaches, improving skills and learning to compete where you are matter more than jumping ship the moment things don’t go your way.
Coaches, parents, and players, am I the only one seeing this?
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“You shouldn’t teach kids about jersey holding.”
This is what it looks like at the competitive youth level.
Huh?
University of Michigan will hide grades, scrub transcripts to curb student 'mental health crisis' trib.al/O10EZ9Y
Who is this guy?
The MLS has room to grow in a few ways, but 1 major thing sticks out:
The team naming conventions.
I’m watching a game between “San Diego FC” and “FC Dallas.”
We are not in Europe. We don’t call our soccer teams “football clubs.” Why the hell are we integrating foreign nomenclature into the top level branding of a team? It reads like we are trying to be someone else.
Beyond that, “FC Dallas” doesn’t even make sense in English. “Football Club Dallas” puts the modifier “Dallas” after the head noun “Football Club.” That is Romance language construction—grammatically common in Spanish or French, but not in English.
So not only are we using foreign terminology, we are also forcing foreign grammar into our brands.
And then the core of the issue: bucking a ubiquitous trend in all other American sports. Literally every other American team uses the same nomenclature:
City + Mascot/Nickname
The Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Red Sox, Washington Capitals…
It’s the city and a thing. It tells you where they are from and gives you some semblance of a brand to assign to the idea of the team.
“FC Dallas” gives you nothing. No imagery, no brand, just a bland technical “name” to use to refer to the team.
This is just one of the many “foreign” things about US soccer that just make it hard to get into as an American fan.
If you want to take over the American market, you have to be authentically American. The MLS simply does not present that way in its current form. If anything, they come across as wannabe Europeans.
Until the MLS manages to own its American nature, they will struggle.
