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Title: North Carolina Youth Soccer Presents A Parents Guide to Recreational Soccer The Game for All Kids


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North Carolina Youth Soccer PresentsA Parents
Guide to Recreational SoccerThe Game for All
Kids!
  • This presentation is designed to introduce the
    game of soccer to parents of recreational players
    and increase the benefits of the sport without
    limiting the child

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What Can I Expect?Play is the Key to Open Many
Doors Dr. Marianne Torbet
  • Why Do Players Play?
  • To Have Fun
  • To Be With Their Friends
  • To Make New Friends
  • To Improve and Learn
  • To Feel Good
  • To Wear the Stuff
  • (US Youth Soccer)

From an early age, every child loves to play
with a ball. Soccer is just playing with the
ball, except with others and a few simple rules.
Soccer is having FUN! (US Youth Soccer)
  • Soccer is the game for all kids and that means
    there will be all types of kids playing together
  • Children will differ greatly due to age, gender
    and maturity
  • Soccer will help develop FUN, SELF-ESTEEM,
    TEAMWORK, FRIENDSHIPS
  • In soccer they will be able to run, kick, jump,
    roll, skip, fall down and shout which is
    essential for mental and physical development

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Soccer?
  • The Purpose To put the ball in the
  • opponents goal
  • How Two teams face each other and
  • try to put the ball in the opponents
  • goal. Players cannot use their hands.
  • Where The game is played on a
  • rectangular field, with goals at each
  • end
  • The Team Apart from the goalkeeper,
  • the only player allowed to use their
  • hands, there is no fixed spaces or
  • positions in soccer. Players must
  • move and interchange positions
  • according to the flow of the game.
  • Equipment Soccer is a simple sport
  • with little equipment needed
  • 1.Ball 2. Cleats 3.Shin Guards

Did You Know.. Soccer is the most participated
youth sport in the U.S. In 1999, there were
17,582,000 total soccer participants in the U.S
with 7,881,000 under the age of twelve (SGMA,
2000)
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What Matters to Your Child?
  • Psychologists attribute three motivational
    factors in children's involvement in sport
  • For Approval take up sport for the approval of
    adults/parents/grand-parents
  • For Success they enjoy competing in contests
    with other children
  • For Mastery to improve and master at least some
    aspects of the sport
  • Most children play to have fun with
  • their friends. They do not play to
  • entertain the adults, boost the adults
  • ego, or improve the family social status
  • within the Community.
  • (Adams, U of Missouri)
  • Did You Know..
  • The major two reasons children give up sport
  • Its no longer fun
  • Its too competitive

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Guidelines for the Sidelines
  • When asked what embarrasses them most, the
    overwhelming response from children is parents
    yelling. (www.MomsTeam.com Survey)
  • 6 Guidelines for the Sidelines
  • Cheer
  • Relax and Let Them Play
  • Yelling Directions Distraction
  • Remember, they are just kids having fun
  • Have reasonable expectations
  • Think of the soccer field as a playground!
  • - Emphasize enjoyment
  • - Encourage your child regardless of success
  • - Cheer for all Children
  • - Applaud a good effort no matter who makes it
  • - Its okay to talk to other teams parents
  • - Be a parent not a coach
  • - Resist the urge to critique

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  • If youve ever driven a car
  • with three kids screaming
  • and fighting in the backseat,
  • think about this Does it tend
  • to pull your attention away
  • from the task at hand? Do
  • you ever feel overloaded?
  • If you add more pressure to
  • that car ride, such as an icy
  • road, can you handle all that
  • at once? Thats exactly what
  • coaches/parents do when
  • they yell at kids to do
  • something They distract
  • them. They create cognitive
  • overload.
  • (pg. 161, Just Let the Kids Play)

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The Ride Home
  • Good Questions on the Way Home
  • Did you have fun today?
  • What do you think you did well today?
  • Did you learn anything today?
  • Topics to Avoid on the Way Home
  • Dont Evaluate your child's performance, he or
    she is playing to have fun, not to earn a grade!
  • Be Supportive! Fun Success

For some reason, adults - some who can't
even kick a ball - think it is perfectly okay to
scream at children while they're playing soccer.
How normal would it seem if a mother gave a
six-year-old some crayons and a coloring book
and started screaming? "Use the red crayon! Stay
in the lines! Don't use yellow! You think that
child would develop a passion for drawing? Most
important parents must realize that playing
sports is a way for children to express
themselves."        Claudio Reyna, Former Men's
U.S. National Team Captain
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What to Expect from the Coach
  • At Practice
  • Will create a safe, fun environment!
  • Players should be engaged, active
  • and having fun through games!
  • Games should be the teacher
  • you should not see lines, laps, or lectures
  • At Games
  • Players should be allowed the
  • freedom to play without constant
  • Instruction
  • Players should not be restricted to
  • fixed spaces or positions in soccer.
  • Players must move and interchange
  • positions according to the flow of the
  • game.

Did You Know 90 of volunteer coaches in the U.S
have had no coaching education!
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Keeping it in Perspective.
  • 73 of all kids who play organized
  • Youth sports end up quitting by the
  • time they reach the age of 13!
  • (Time Magazine, 7/12/99)
  • Major Two Reasons Kids Give Up Sport
  • Its No Longer Fun
  • Its Too Competitive
  • Congratulations on supporting your child's choice
    to play soccer in their leisure time
  • It is going to be a great opportunity for them to
    have fun, express themselves and make new
    friends!
  • Please enhance your childs experience by being a
    positive parent and allowing them to play and
    enjoy the benefits of soccer and sport

Remember The spirit of a child knows no bounds
until limited by adults.
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Where Can I Learn More?
  • Websites
  • NC Youth Soccer Education Center
  • -Videos, skills, links etc
  • US Youth Soccer Parent Resource Center
  • -Videos, Quizzes, Age appropriate info etc
  • Laws of the Game
  • -U6, U8, U10, U12, U13
  • US Youth Soccer Parent Resource Library
  • -Brochures, articles, coaching info etc

Resources Parents Guide (Free) Youth Soccer
Parent/Coach Primer Coaching Youth Soccer by
Bobby Clark Positive Parenting DVD Coaching
Education Brochure Plus many more. Please
contact rachel_at_ncsoccer.org
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Recreation Registration (PDF)orRecreation
Registration Link
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