Peels if you can take more positives away than negatives with coaching kids then by all means you should do it. The sport is irrelevant because the real issue is teaching children life skills while managing the childrens' parents. If they don't drive you away and you can spare that kind of time and patience then kudos to you for helping others in their formative years.
yep. thanks MD.
While i'm sure its clear I love the sport, it isn't the sole driver here. character building through challenge is. The sport though, its a "legacy" my dad left with me. I was 5, came home and said "i want to play soccer". He learned to coach, borrowing knowledge from some friends who played. the only thing he knew about soccer was they played it in Vietnam when he was there, he said they would watch them from his ship. lol
Case in point: Last weekend. Other team was short handed, so they put on a goalkeeper from the upper skill level, one of the younger kids' siblings, 2 yrs older 2 feet taller
Fine. whatever, not fair, but we'll live. 2nd half, 2 more kids show up, so they have full plus a sub. But no... Older kid stays in....tied 2-2 at half. MY Kids complaining. My "motivational speech": "yep not fair, but life rarely is, you have to play harder sometimes, when there's nothing you can do about it. let me take care of that" However, other coach.... HUGE c*nt, I mention it. "oh well we need the help" the win at all costs type...ugh they're 11 years old.
I saw a few light bulbs go off in their faces.... THEN... My boy dribbles past 3 players, and passes to a Little girl who was playing for the first time since she was 4, scored and they won. THAT is why I do it. If I can have just a tiny fraction of a dent on a kids development, and have them enjoy the sport I spent most of my life playing and following, and have even a microscopic sliver of influence on how its played in the future....I'll consider it worth it.
