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Tag: single-digit soccer
Single-Digit Soccer: The bond of a rec team
My U12 House league team finished its season on a chilly, windy Saturday morning, completing a four-team mini-tournament with a … More
Single-Digit Soccer: The challenge of finding a properly challenging level
The book Coaching Outside the Box: Changing the Mindset in Youth Soccer has a chapter with best-case and worst-case scenarios for … More
Single-Digit Soccer: Time for parents to raise their voices
No, no — not talking about parents raising voices during games. We need to be restrained and supportive. If someone shoots … More
Single-Digit Soccer: Dave Barry on the role of the parent
Dave Barry, who married a soccer writer, offers up some classic “it’s funny because it’s true” answers on soccer parenting: … More
Single-Digit Soccer: What we don’t talk about
You have a great practice plan. You’ve read three different coaches’ takes on the exercises you’re doing, so you know … More
Single-Digit Soccer: These issues matter
On the same day that The Huffington Post ran my piece on Myths Every Soccer Parent Should Know, I saw … More
Single-Digit Soccer: Is softball different?
It’s official — U10 sports are front-page news. Granted, the Vienna Connection isn’t The Washington Post. It’s a weekly community paper. And there … More
Single-Digit Soccer: Requiem for the Ajax academy?
Perhaps this is a leap of logic — a thin correlation between two items that aren’t quite related. Maybe so. … More
Single-Digit Soccer: The definitive word on Germany
How do they do things in Europe? As we saw with birth-year age groups, perhaps not what we think. Single-Digit … More
