With one significant exception, the parents and helpers at the session seemed completely dedicated to one
thing - the enjoyment of the game. We worked on a principle of trying to
provide organised football for as many children as possible and boasted a squad of over
35 players with varying abilities who all got a game on a Sunday morning.I loved
every moment of running that side and managed to build lasting friendships with a group
of eager young players who continue to stop me in the street for a quick
chat about their progress to the present day. The pressures heaped upon them to win
at all costs from a very early age are still very much in force. Around
ten years ago, when my eldest lad had just turned six years old, I decided
to make use of the rather expensive football boots that I'd bought him for kickabouts
in the back garden and ran him down to a Saturday morning fun session that
I'd been hearing about from a few other Dads with boys of similar ages.I walked
away incredibly impressed. We were still having fun.Unfortunately, I didn't realise that a few of
the new parents on the sidelines didn't quite understand what we were nike shox nz trying to achieve
and eventually we had a cluster of parents at every game who felt obliged to
shout a variety of different instructions to a gaggle of confused children above the voice
of a manager who had completely different ideas on what junior football should be about.I
survived several heated arguments, one poorly-aimed bottle of isotonic drink and a weekly diet of
shaking heads. We started from scratch and took on boys that, in all honesty, didn't
have the ability to earn regular places in teams that were already focused on winning
titles, tournaments and cup competitions. We still had a great laugh in that first season
even though we were getting hammered most weekends, and it was fantastic to see the
steady improvement in several of the kids who'd never played at a competitive level before.The
following season, a new batch of boys turned up to pre-season training and the standard
rose a little. Strangely enough, it was the same gentleman who had been the significant
exception at a meaningless fun session many years before.The new manager managed to finish 3rd
in the table the following season, but the team of kids that I'd nurtured had
already been ripped apart by this stage and had Polo Lacoste been replaced with local lads that
arrived with good footballing reputations. We eased the new boys into the side but continued
to give every registered player as much playing time as possible. Coaching kids is a
labour of love and it still seems that most adults involved in the junior game
consider themselves to be a few steps ahead of managerial greats such as Ferguson, Mourinho
and Benitez.Kids don't have much time to enjoy football from a playing perspective anymore. It
didn't matter. Worse still, they take away a source of pleasure from willing children who
simply want to go about their business and enjoy themselves. Because of their lack of
natural ability, many of my old charges didn't find another team to play for.It's a
sad state of affairs when the pressures of megalomaniac parents ease willing volunteers out of
the game but they tend to have a tendency to shout louder than most people.
Unfortunately, work commitments saw me move away for several years and I passed on the
mantle of team manager to another parent who continued to look after the bulk of
these young players until they turned 16.A few years later, I arrived back home and
managed to find another side to coach at Under 13's level. By the end of
the season, I'd already decided to move on and the club eventually appointed a friend
of the resistant parents as my replacement. I was issued with a code of conduct
that explained the desire to install a love of football into the hearts of influential
youngsters and that winning wasn't the 'be all and end all' of providing organised football
for a six year old child.Fairly soon, I was encouraged to help out and eventually
had the privilege of running an under 7's team made up of boys and girls
who wanted to experience the game at a team level. Although results improved, we still
lost the majority of our games. The FA has done much to make the right
noises about participation being the most important aspect of the junior game, but you get
the impression that they rarely venture towards park pitches on a Sunday morning to see
the continued howling of blood-thirsty parents who won't take second-best as an option.Paul Miceli, creator
of Rigmonkey FLW, invites you to visit his company website for a comprehensive viewing of
services and company values.Rigmonkey FLW can be found at http://www.rigmonkey.co.ukThe new Rigmonkey FLW blog can
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