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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 20:15
The RCYSL is in the second year of their academy program with their U10 Challenge players. We had so much success last year that we have added to this academy program the U12 challenge teams. An academy is a term used for a more controlled training environment. The program with the RCYSL has these teams training twice per week, once with Brian Pitts and/or an Acadedy Staff coach doing the training, once with their RCYSL assigned coach doing the training, and then has them playing once per week. The goal in the program is to ensure our players learn the essential technical skills to become better soccer players as they move on in their soccer careers.
Attached to this message is the lesson plan for this week. As you will see we are working on the fundamentals of passing and receiving in small groups. The hope is that we instill the importance of communication in the pass, both verbally and non-verbally, in addition to highlighting the different surfaces and techiques that we can use to pass the ball.
I have also included an article below that discusses the parent player relationship from the perspective of a national team player whose children are now of playing age. It is a short read with some great thoughts for us as coaches and parents. Please share this with your parents on your teams. These little weekly messages are a great way to keep them involved and remind them about team functions that are scheduled each week. Enjoy the video as well.
I look forward to seeing you and our players this week as we continue our academy trainings. We are in the lower valley at 5:30 for U10 teams and at
For the good of our league,
Brian
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March 13, 2010 Saturday
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HEADLINE: World class soccer star, soccer mom - Joy Fawcett - urges parents to back off
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Three-time Olympian and women's World Cup champion Joy Fawcett and her 8-year-old daughter spent Saturday at the Palo Alto High School soccer field, signing autographs and promoting well-behaved parenting from the sidelines.
Fawcett, 42, made history as the first national team player to give birth during the season darting off the field for just three weeks before returning to play. She went on to have two more daughters during her 17-year career among the nation's soccer elite.
Together with the second national team player to give birth, Carla Overbeck, the pair convinced the national league to support parenting players by paying for babysitters and separate rooms.
Fawcett never felt she had to choose between her children and the game, and pregnancy did not set her back; she nursed her babies in halftime breaks in the locker room.
Now, as mother of three young athletes herself, the winner of two Olympic gold medals following a successful playing career at the University of California-Berkeley, is an advocate for change in the sports culture consuming so many American families and not always in healthy ways. Fawcett who sits on the board of a national nonprofit organization promoting "positive sports parenting" said she sees too many parents "stomping around on the sidelines" and lecturing their kids after games.
"Parents just go a bit crazy," she said.
But she understands the impulses, and has to check her own at times, she added. Two of Fawcett's three daughters, ages 8, 12 and 15, are soccer players. And the family spends seven days a week shuttling between games and practices in their Suburban, loaded up with teammates, tangerines and crackers.
"I would definitely love to tell them all the things they did wrong, but I know better because they don't want to hear it," she said.
As founder of the Orange County Saddleback United Soccer Club, Fawcett has pushed for culture change among parents who are too quick to envision college scholarships and professional careers for their children, despite the relatively minuscule percentage who will achieve that status.
And Saddleback parents must behave. If they mouth off inappropriately from the sidelines, they are handed a candy sucker an opportunity to otherwise occupy their tongues.
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That message gets clouded among many parents, who end up overly invested as they spend hours carting kids to sporting events and watching their every move from the sidelines.
But Brown said there is a simple reminder she adheres to: "As long as my kids are having fun and enjoying the game, I'll do whatever it takes to get them there."
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