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Re: soccer, and growth

Posted By: Jason Burnell
Date: Thursday, 12 January 2006, at 12:38 p.m.

In Response To: soccer, and growth (Larry Maile)

Larry, How can we emulate some of this in PL.

There may be some things we can learn from soccer but from what I've seen from my daughter playing, the same format won't work with PL.

Soccer is easy to get into - a pair of shorts, a pair of cleats plus 65 bucks in the spring and about 100 in the fall gets you on a team.
I forgot-20 bucks for shin guards and a few bucks for a cup if you're a guy.

At 6 you can run around and kick the ball and call it soccer. You can't just drop young kids off at the gym.

A lot of parents treat soccer like a baby sitter. Drop their kids off and come back later. You can't really do that with weights.

Many parents don't have the time, inclination or ability to teach their kids to lift. Many seem to have time to boot them out of the mini-van for soccer and go read for an hour.

You have to join a gym or invest in weights for a PL team (or just one kid). While it's a natural thing for us - kid wants weights ?? COOL! - most people think we're nuts. A lot of people still think that lifting is bad for kids and even more dont' want their daughters to get all bulky and look like men.. and try as we might, they still think we're nuts...

Another big factor is that youth soccer games are over in an hour or less. We can't' even get through weigh ins in that time. LOL

I love watching my kids play but even I have to admit that those 3 hours softball games started to get old. Soccer is a lot more fast paced and the ball is always moving and the game is done in an hour. Even when the kids are n different teams, we can watch both of them and have a good chunk of Saturday left.

Just some observations. I'm not saying it can't be done but we'd probably have to change our format. Maybe do one event per weekend or something.

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