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Would your soccer player like to know the answer to any of these questions?

  1. How did you score 32 goals in one year?
  2. How did you get moved from the regional team to the national team?
  3. How did you earn a varsity of starting spot in your first year?
  4. How did you get named team captain What did you have to do as team captain that worked?
  5. How did you handle switching coaches in the middle of the year?
  6. How did you manage getting a new coach every year for five years?
  7. When your team was split in half how did you decide which half to stay with?
  8. How did you decide whether to stay at your club or go to a new?
  9. How did you end up getting a scholarship to play soccer?
  10. How did you use your disappointment to fuel you towards success in soccer?
  11. How did you score in the state final ?
  12. How do you train in the off-season? How do you? 

Looking back, my kids would have loved to be able to ask questions to older players who had already experienced what they are going through.


That’s why We started http://PlayMoreMinutes.com

For youth players who wish they had an “insiders” opinion on what they’re struggling with in their soccer journey.

Expertise/Experience to share

So although they had low points and made mistakes, they learned from them and have experience accomplishing their soccer goals 


They had to make decisions about which teams to try out for which offers to accept 

  1. Which colleges to visit which school to choose
  2. Whether to play on an injury or to rest
  3. Whether to train in the off season or to relax
  4. How to react to unpleasant teammates how to manage a team as a captain
  5. How to talk to the coach in about difficult situations
  6. They had to choose between going to a game and going to homecoming
  7. How to get all their training in and still get their homework done and get A’s in their classes
  8. How to choose whether to go out with their friends or to call it a night and be rested for the game
  9. How to decide between going to events and playing in tournaments
  10. How to juggle playing multiple sports
  11. How up from one practice drive to the next practice and fall asleep on the way
  12. How to handle asked to move up a team and had to decide whether that was the right move for them
  13. How to handle cut from a team and had to move down and figure out how to maintain their confidence in Excel on that team
  14. Forgot their cleats on game day, they left their home or away jersey at home they made those mistakes and dealt with the consequences and learn from them
  15. What to do when teammates, not pull their weight and cover for them
  16. How to handle being part of great team that didn’t quite make the championships they should’ve 
  17. Stories of part of a team that shouldn’t have won, but did win the championship 

 

 

Alternatives

I see a lot of Soccer parents asking questions on Facebook forums about their use soccer player 

Something I’ve noticed is they usually get a wide range of responses that are obviously based on just one person experience and often snarky 

This is a chance to sit down and have a chat with somebody who has been through the process And can share their experiences

Why players are not parents? 

Parents might give you all the reasons that they made decisions, but this is your players chance to get a perspective from how a player experienced it and what they thought 

The parent drives the carpool and pays the fees, but the player is the one who is on the field and deals with the coach and the teammates and the opposition

The best way to learn is by making mistakes these players made mistakes recently and have lessons learned they can share 

These are players that have had success in their Soccer careers. 

How does your player make decisions that will get them more minutes on the field? More playing = more fun

These kids have had success in soccer and they get asked a lot by other players by younger players and other families for advice 

If you are a parent of a 5/6/7/8 grader who plays soccer and is looking for help improving then this is for you 

Things Your Coach Wont TELL You

Questions that your coach/club might answer one way but a player with experience will tell you the real answers to.

Coach: Everyone gets equal playing time

Player: Top 11 get equal playing time, other 6 will fight for scraps

Coach:

Player:

Coach:

Player:

Stories

One summer when my kids were in sixth and eighth grade there was a high school senior who would come train them a few days a week 

Our kids really looked up to him and I remember he showed my son a video of a high school game where he had noticed the goalie was off his line on the kickoff and he scored on the kickoff 

He was from a soccer family, his dad was a college coach at UMKC and now he is the coach at Grand Canyon University 

He went on to play college soccer 

The kids definitely benefited from his technical training, but also from asking him lots of questions and from Motivation working with him and hearing about his