Sunday, 19 February 2012
Bodmin v Wadebridge - Sunday 19th Feb
The friendly match against Wadebridge was originally planned to consist of two matches enabling all player involved and available with both clubs age groups to play a full match, unfortunately due to late unavailability and more commonly illness, this ended up being one eight a side game with rolling subs over four quarters and involving approx 25 players. The game was played out in the spirit that youth football should be played in, with Bodmin running out winners by 8 ( possibly 9 ) goals to 2. Although i think both sets of managers and the large contingent of parents present would all be in agreement that regardless of the score today, all the boys had a good run-out and ultimately an enjoyable couple of hours of football as it should be.
Should Junior Competitive Football be banned?
An Interesting article from Chris Hodgson a coach with over 15 years experience, something for all adults to consider.
My Mum says “Stop being so MESSY” but my Dad EXPECTS me to be MESSI!!!!
A new season has started within Junior Football and it is still evident that there are still many problems within our beloved sport:
1.Some Coach’s still dictating to kids, urging them on for results
2.Parents shouting and berating towards the child’s team, urging them for results
3.Fellow Coach’s phoning each other to mock after a poor result!
4.Children walking off the pitch……UNHAPPY!!
Is this what Junior Football is all about? If it is then it’s time for change.
TAKE AWAY THE COMPETITIVENESS
Junior Leagues were created to mimic the Adult Form and in my opinion for the interest purely for Adults not children, yes kids love the league but it’s the Adults that dominate them. Kids are becoming more pressurised to perform consistently and as a result the dropout rate from Junior Football is alarming. The fun has obviously gone for them through over-competing and when they eventually do return to playing football, more just end up playing for sub standard teams with sub standard coaching.
Should Junior Leagues be banned? WHY? You must be mental!!! You’re all thinking, but here are some suggestions:
1. Ban competition and introduce learning which is age related, a Player Development Process within Junior Clubs/Soccer Schools etc
2. Kids to be coached at Junior Club/Soccer School through the week/weekend culminating with in house games i.e. 4v4, 7v7
3. Parents also to be educated, to help them understand the requirements to help children develop within the sport.
4. Create Summer Tournaments where all Junior Clubs/Soccer Schools can enter and all the kids can play and show off all their dedicated hard work in a non competitive way
What’s your thoughts so far?………………….
Kids would more than likely stay at one club where the lure of a more successful team would be erased to win things, unless the standard of coaching is poor. How many kids have you lost because of a dad who is success hungry takes his child away to a team that’s winning Trophies? So his child will get noticed hopefully by Pro Academy Scouts so he can boast that his child has made it! All your valuable coaching practice wasted or more probably benefiting another team. How much effort is lost because of this?
Coaches should be educated to coach age related specifics i.e. U6 would be Ball Mastery and different topics through different ages. So if a coach has an U8 team he should be aware of what that age group should be taught for the coming year.
With no Leagues, Junior Clubs would get kids who want to learn to play football and not pushed into it by pushy parents and at the end of the day we want to coach kids who want to be successful in football and hopefully help them achieve this success.
Take Karate for instance my Daughter attends twice a week yet I’ve never seen her train, she’s been going for two years, she is now ready to compete in a competition in which I can watch. She is 8 years old, how many kids who play football have been allowed to train without a parent insight for 2 years??
Kids would play for their respective schools/districts, again no League format (there wasn’t in my day) in school time only, NO PARENTS. Scouts could come and watch like in the old days where if you represented your School/District team it was an achievement unlike today.
How many of these so called Coaches would then drop out of Junior Football? With no competition they would fall by the wayside leaving dedicated Coaches who want to develop and teach Children Football?
It would also give coaches time to become more educated, learning alongside more experienced coaches, instead of a dad passing his FA Level 1, being given 10 kids and let loose with them to teach them what? Nothing but bad habits, or what Hansen and Lineker has told him from Match of the Day! Coach Education is paramount and shouldn’t be looked down upon.
Yes this might take years to implement but surely we must do something to stop this rot!
Introduce competitive Leagues when kids reach the age of 17. What you will have then are kids that have stayed the course, learnt the game, the technique and everything else associated within the sport ready to be unleashed into the Football World with NO FEAR!! Could you imagine the standard of football that will be played, so imagine instead of an U8 League actually being an U17 League, an U9 being an U18 league and so on.
Alot of 17/18 year olds who have played at a high level suddenly have no team to play for as there is no popularity for it and for some of these footballers end up signing for Pub Teams, if the League format starts at U17 and onwards surely its win win. Junior Clubs/Soccer Schools still collecting Subscriptions for coaching the kids over the years and now still receiving Subscriptions for young footballers wanting to play in Leagues from the age of 17 and possibly playing for a number of years. Surely that makes more sense.
What I’m saying is just REVERSE the League Format, Develop first then when they are ready you let them compete instead of having poor little Jimmy crying because his dad shouted at him, calling him an embarrassment for the way he played. When actually Jimmy doesn’t like playing football! But his dad makes him play….Pride can be such an awful thing.
Yes kids will drop out during time, but what you will have at the end of all this are young footballers who WANT football, all of whom have worked hard for THEMSELVES to learn and play football, which is what we need. These kids would become dedicated, hungry footballers who have been taught the aspects and have developed and honed their skills. We English have gone about this the wrong way, making kids compete at such an early age with no education to help them, because let’s face it, Adults are today unwilling to let kids learn for themselves, no mistakes allowed, every performance must be perfect because if not the kid will get lectured on the way home if they haven’t already been subbed for costing the team a goal and this is all just to feed an Adult obsession to compete within football using kids as their prey.
I will leave you with this thought,
Have you ever tried to look at football through a Childs mind?
A CHILD WAKES UP AND SEES A POSTER ON HIS WALL OF HIS IDOL MESSI AND DREAMS ONE DAY OF HOPEFULLY BEING LIKE HIM,
IN THE OTHER ROOM IS HIS/HER DAD WAKING UP EXPECTING HIS CHILD TO PERFORM LIKE MESSI EVERY SATURDAY!
A sad fact but very very true!.
My Mum says “Stop being so MESSY” but my Dad EXPECTS me to be MESSI!!!!
A new season has started within Junior Football and it is still evident that there are still many problems within our beloved sport:
1.Some Coach’s still dictating to kids, urging them on for results
2.Parents shouting and berating towards the child’s team, urging them for results
3.Fellow Coach’s phoning each other to mock after a poor result!
4.Children walking off the pitch……UNHAPPY!!
Is this what Junior Football is all about? If it is then it’s time for change.
TAKE AWAY THE COMPETITIVENESS
Junior Leagues were created to mimic the Adult Form and in my opinion for the interest purely for Adults not children, yes kids love the league but it’s the Adults that dominate them. Kids are becoming more pressurised to perform consistently and as a result the dropout rate from Junior Football is alarming. The fun has obviously gone for them through over-competing and when they eventually do return to playing football, more just end up playing for sub standard teams with sub standard coaching.
Should Junior Leagues be banned? WHY? You must be mental!!! You’re all thinking, but here are some suggestions:
1. Ban competition and introduce learning which is age related, a Player Development Process within Junior Clubs/Soccer Schools etc
2. Kids to be coached at Junior Club/Soccer School through the week/weekend culminating with in house games i.e. 4v4, 7v7
3. Parents also to be educated, to help them understand the requirements to help children develop within the sport.
4. Create Summer Tournaments where all Junior Clubs/Soccer Schools can enter and all the kids can play and show off all their dedicated hard work in a non competitive way
What’s your thoughts so far?………………….
Kids would more than likely stay at one club where the lure of a more successful team would be erased to win things, unless the standard of coaching is poor. How many kids have you lost because of a dad who is success hungry takes his child away to a team that’s winning Trophies? So his child will get noticed hopefully by Pro Academy Scouts so he can boast that his child has made it! All your valuable coaching practice wasted or more probably benefiting another team. How much effort is lost because of this?
Coaches should be educated to coach age related specifics i.e. U6 would be Ball Mastery and different topics through different ages. So if a coach has an U8 team he should be aware of what that age group should be taught for the coming year.
With no Leagues, Junior Clubs would get kids who want to learn to play football and not pushed into it by pushy parents and at the end of the day we want to coach kids who want to be successful in football and hopefully help them achieve this success.
Take Karate for instance my Daughter attends twice a week yet I’ve never seen her train, she’s been going for two years, she is now ready to compete in a competition in which I can watch. She is 8 years old, how many kids who play football have been allowed to train without a parent insight for 2 years??
Kids would play for their respective schools/districts, again no League format (there wasn’t in my day) in school time only, NO PARENTS. Scouts could come and watch like in the old days where if you represented your School/District team it was an achievement unlike today.
How many of these so called Coaches would then drop out of Junior Football? With no competition they would fall by the wayside leaving dedicated Coaches who want to develop and teach Children Football?
It would also give coaches time to become more educated, learning alongside more experienced coaches, instead of a dad passing his FA Level 1, being given 10 kids and let loose with them to teach them what? Nothing but bad habits, or what Hansen and Lineker has told him from Match of the Day! Coach Education is paramount and shouldn’t be looked down upon.
Yes this might take years to implement but surely we must do something to stop this rot!
Introduce competitive Leagues when kids reach the age of 17. What you will have then are kids that have stayed the course, learnt the game, the technique and everything else associated within the sport ready to be unleashed into the Football World with NO FEAR!! Could you imagine the standard of football that will be played, so imagine instead of an U8 League actually being an U17 League, an U9 being an U18 league and so on.
Alot of 17/18 year olds who have played at a high level suddenly have no team to play for as there is no popularity for it and for some of these footballers end up signing for Pub Teams, if the League format starts at U17 and onwards surely its win win. Junior Clubs/Soccer Schools still collecting Subscriptions for coaching the kids over the years and now still receiving Subscriptions for young footballers wanting to play in Leagues from the age of 17 and possibly playing for a number of years. Surely that makes more sense.
What I’m saying is just REVERSE the League Format, Develop first then when they are ready you let them compete instead of having poor little Jimmy crying because his dad shouted at him, calling him an embarrassment for the way he played. When actually Jimmy doesn’t like playing football! But his dad makes him play….Pride can be such an awful thing.
Yes kids will drop out during time, but what you will have at the end of all this are young footballers who WANT football, all of whom have worked hard for THEMSELVES to learn and play football, which is what we need. These kids would become dedicated, hungry footballers who have been taught the aspects and have developed and honed their skills. We English have gone about this the wrong way, making kids compete at such an early age with no education to help them, because let’s face it, Adults are today unwilling to let kids learn for themselves, no mistakes allowed, every performance must be perfect because if not the kid will get lectured on the way home if they haven’t already been subbed for costing the team a goal and this is all just to feed an Adult obsession to compete within football using kids as their prey.
I will leave you with this thought,
Have you ever tried to look at football through a Childs mind?
A CHILD WAKES UP AND SEES A POSTER ON HIS WALL OF HIS IDOL MESSI AND DREAMS ONE DAY OF HOPEFULLY BEING LIKE HIM,
IN THE OTHER ROOM IS HIS/HER DAD WAKING UP EXPECTING HIS CHILD TO PERFORM LIKE MESSI EVERY SATURDAY!
A sad fact but very very true!.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Sunday 19th February v Wadebridge
This Sunday we have 2 games v Wadebridge, the first one kicking off at 10.30am, followed by an 11.30am kick off for the second, this will enable all available boys to get a full game this week. Both games will be at home at our Coldharbour ground.
Sunday, 12 February 2012
Bodmin 2 V 5 Padstow
Fully deserved victory for Padstow today who battled back from 2-0 down to run out convincing winners.
Bodmin started well playing down the slope and after several near misses scored when a shot from Roland went through the keepers legs, although this was probably the impressive keepers only mistake of the game. Shortly after we went 2-0 up when from a corner Thomas hit the ball into the top corner of the Padstow goal for his first ever league goal. Padstow came back and scored two goals just before half time to level things up.
The second half, apart from a couple of breakaways from Siam and a shot which hit the bar, Bodmin were mainly outplayed by a more determined Padstow side who scored a further 3 goals without reply and but for good defending from Roland, Thomas and keeper Ciaran the score would have been even more.
A disappointing result as the boys know that they can play better but as long as they learn from the manner of the defeat and realise that just because you take a 2-0 lead the game is not over as Padstow proved, you still need to maintain the concentration and effort for the remainder of the game.
But it is only a game and they are only 8/9 years old, and so far the skill, attitude and commitment of all players has been second to none...... Training as normal tomorrow.
Bodmin started well playing down the slope and after several near misses scored when a shot from Roland went through the keepers legs, although this was probably the impressive keepers only mistake of the game. Shortly after we went 2-0 up when from a corner Thomas hit the ball into the top corner of the Padstow goal for his first ever league goal. Padstow came back and scored two goals just before half time to level things up.
The second half, apart from a couple of breakaways from Siam and a shot which hit the bar, Bodmin were mainly outplayed by a more determined Padstow side who scored a further 3 goals without reply and but for good defending from Roland, Thomas and keeper Ciaran the score would have been even more.
A disappointing result as the boys know that they can play better but as long as they learn from the manner of the defeat and realise that just because you take a 2-0 lead the game is not over as Padstow proved, you still need to maintain the concentration and effort for the remainder of the game.
But it is only a game and they are only 8/9 years old, and so far the skill, attitude and commitment of all players has been second to none...... Training as normal tomorrow.
A Poem/Message written by football coach Chris Hodgson, something that all of us adults would do well to take notice of.
Not Adults Yet
They stand on a field,
Their hearts beating fast
The whistle has blown,
The die has been cast
Mum and Dad can't help,
They stand all alone,
A goal at this moment
Would send the team home.
The ball nears their feet
They kick and it misses;
There's a moan from the crowd,
Some boos and some hisses.
A thoughtless voice cries out
'Take off the bum'
Tears fill in their eyes,
It's no longer fun.
If you're ever tempted
To shout or to moan
Remember, it's a CHILD
Who stands out there alone?
So open your heart
And give them a break,
It's moments like this
A player you make.
Keep this in mind
When others forget
They're only YOUNG CHILDREN.
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