In this blog peace I'm gonna talk about what's the worst thing youth soccer parents can do for their kid In my opinion.

It's constantly helping your children from the sidelines.

Now, in our futsal trainings, we have parents that during trainings they sit very close to the courts and you can constantly hear them telling their children what to do. Like us professional futsal trainers don't see what the children are doing right or wrong, and they pay us to help them.

The biggest error in youth sports, especially in soccer and futsal, that's what I coach, is helping your child, telling them what to do. It's okay for young children not to be able to do things right. It's okay for them to fumble through it. It's okay for them to take time to perfect the skill. Don't you think professional trainers, coaches see your children's struggles.

Your desire to help your child at that particular moment over and over again, training in and training out, week in week out, month in, month out, year after year. It's what's going to prevent your child from being able to play at a decent or high level.

Why? Because you're creating a robot. Because you're creating a child that's used to having mom and dad on the sideline telling them what to do.

Boy, I have been to so many tournaments where I see children, do something on a soccer field or on a futsal court and immediately look to the sideline to seek the approval of mom and dad. They're not the coaches. The coaches are usually sitting on the other side. The insecurity of a child as time goes on, not to have mom and dad by their side to constantly tell them what to do, destroys young soccer players or futsal players or young athletes. It's no coincidence that if you go to other countries, parents are not allowed at training. There's a reason for that. I understand the parent's desire to want to help their children, but the worst thing you can do is actually help them. It's okay to let them fail. It's okay for them to take their time to understand something, to think through something. It's okay for them to happen to actually think on how to accomplish something. Don't forget, there's trainers there that they see their mistakes.

Now in America, one of the biggest misconception is that if a trainer is not constantly yelling or screaming at the children, oh, he's 

not a a good trainer. That's the furthest thing from the truth. If you wanna make your child a robot, if you wanna diminish your children's percentages of playing at a high level, keep helping them every single time they fail. Only the future is gonna show, if you were right or wrong, a year from now, two years from now, five years from now, when they become teenagers and they still cannot read the game, they cannot think for themselves. You'll understand what I'm talking about; 

skills are not enough, particularly in soccer and futsal. In my sport, having good foot skills is not enough at a decent level or a high level. At the collegiate level, at the professional level, everybody's got good skills. How fast they can think, how well they can think, can they think at all on their own without the coaches screaming at the sideline, which by the way is being promoted for television stuff. 

I still cannot believe that television leagues show coaches, and I can't believe that FIFA still allows the coaches to have the coaching box at the professional leagues to constantly bark directions at the players. There is a FIFA rule. There's a UEFA, rule that says, and I'm pretty sure it's still in effect, but it's not really being exercised. "A coach cannot leave the bench'. A coach is supposed to be sitting at the bench and not be promoted as a star. I don't know. Why is it being done Not quite sure. My thought is because basically they're trying to make the coaches part of the game. 

All I know is this. You keep helping, your players, you keep telling your players and your kids what to do constantly is the best way of them not to succeed at a decent or a high level. Just my 2 cents. Take care.

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