Please view the video below of how, in my opinion, adults confuse the professional sports watching experience with youth sports watching experience. How kids view sports differently than adults. How wins and losses, standings and rankings mean more to adults that youth soccer players. The rest of the world does not begin to compete until the age of 14, however we in the USA think that we know better so we start competing at the age of 7, keep standings and rank teams as young as the age of 10. There is a time and a place for everything, and the scores and standings have their place, but not in the young ages. Soothing the egos of adults should not be the priority of youth sports. Youth sports are for the players, not for adults and that is why they are called youth sports. American culture cultivates that fact that if a youth team isn't winning, they are not a good team. If players are not scoring lots of goals are not good players. We have this crazy idea that development is measured by wins and losses, and standings. Nothing is further from the truth and the sooner we realize this the sooner we will begin to help our youth players stay in the game we all love. SOCCERSKILLZ soccer and futsal training will keep doing its part to share the benefits of long term development vs quick instant results.
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