Scoring Goals

[R P Venkatachalam]

Hello Parents,

See below for a good discussion on the saturday games and scoring. As you all know the main goal for the league is to make soccer a fun experience for the kids. Scoring goals while a very celebrated part of the game sometimes is a distraction especially with younger kids and may interfere with all round development of individuals and the teams.

Coaches are encouraged to intervene and establish rules that would promote skill/team development.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

ramki.

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Forwarded Thread (from coaches email group)

i assume everyone is using the mercy rule for scoring.  if your team has been outplaying your opponents in most games, i hope you are working in practice on scrimmaging where you only allow the players to shoot with their opposite foot or must complete 5 passes before they are allowed to shoot.  this will improve their skills as well as prepare them for a game where you will do this. 

 
in a blowout game, you should start restricting play when you are up 3-0 5 minutes in, not when you are up 7-0 15 minutes in.  it should be obvious early in the game.

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I know both teams that I have played have not told their teams to do anything different than run up the score. Luckily I have been able to keep my girls in good spirits. I just think that as coaches we should be teaching good sportsmanship and "how to play the game". When you have one or two fast children that are scoring all your goals the other children aren't learning and those children aren't learning that this is a team sport. 

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Are these teams ACTIVELY telling the teams to run up the score or is that the impression you are seeing. I know we have many parent coaches this year which my lend to the frustration, as well some coaches may need to talk to the parents as they can also be positive in yelling pass to so and so and. I know I coach my parents just as much as my kids when it comes to using correct terms as (pass to space and sharing the ball with the team) some times solo dribblers need to be told only 2 dribbles and then pass. The UK coaches have great team passing drills that can be used. The parents are a huge help in the sharing aspect of the game.

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i assume they are just not stopping the scoring with the attitude of "i coached them all week to play soccer well.  on saturday, they were playing well.  why should we take our foot off the gas pedal?"   they don't realize this is recreational not competitive, and a few skilled or fast players can completely tip a game.  it can be a learning experience for the kids to pass and share the ball and use their opposite foot to actually get better for the future rather than worry about beating today's opponent to a pulp.

 

[Deepak Butani]

Hi,

I am the bowers field. Where is the practicw today

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[Kalpana Ravinarayanan]

At bowers @ 430. Sorry if there was any confusion

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