ThomasC wrote:I sometimes think the modern academies are too professional with no chance to let young people breathe. If kids want a break from it they should be allowed without fearing they will be cast aside. Must be a very competitive environment with unhealthy rivalries between kids and parents running right through it.
Perhaps kids shouldn't be wearing the identikit football tops until the U18's
I don't see how toxic environments produce relaxed technically gifted football players. Young players should be afforded time, patience, the encouragement to try something new, and to be able to skip a few sessions without stigma.
Isawgarystevensscoreagoal wrote:ThomasC wrote:I sometimes think the modern academies are too professional with no chance to let young people breathe. If kids want a break from it they should be allowed without fearing they will be cast aside. Must be a very competitive environment with unhealthy rivalries between kids and parents running right through it.
Perhaps kids shouldn't be wearing the identikit football tops until the U18's
I don't see how toxic environments produce relaxed technically gifted football players. Young players should be afforded time, patience, the encouragement to try something new, and to be able to skip a few sessions without stigma.
Completely agree. The framed named shirts and signing on photographs for kids in primary school are appalling.
Isawgarystevensscoreagoal wrote:Do you think the boys in the front row are the ones they have high hopes for whilst the ones in the back row whose names are not on show are not so highly rated?
moz-dublin wrote:So the future of the club is there before your very eyes and some bellends can only bitch about a framed jersey.
Grow up lads, you are acting younger than the players
Llan_Blue wrote:f**k sake it’s only a framed shirt it’s not like there paying them wages.
Anybody who’s any good from those lot will have there parents bribed and be whisked away to Man City or Chelsea.
An there’s nothing wrong with them wearing the training kit it’s no different then them wearing a school uniform.
Isawgarystevensscoreagoal wrote:May be it would be better to give them their framed shirt, with the appropriate support, when they are the ones shown the door.
These kids play in a rarified atmosphere and inevitably don't enjoy the reality of real football on poor quality grass pitches when the bubble bursts. They don't play with their mates and are all too often told to give up their other sporting pursuits. At the age of eight its just wrong.
As for saying the kids in the photograph are our future, I hope your right, but the evidence does not show that to being very likely.
Isawgarystevensscoreagoal wrote:Ymca caps and representative sides are great as they are not at the expense of your club. "Academies", and there are lots of them, take kids away from their clubs and dictate what other sport they play, which usually means none.
There are kids at academies for years who never "make it" and never experience playing in a cup final with their mates. They are happy when they are "signed on again" for another season.
Its good they have a picture as a memory because they are likely not to have too much else to look back on from their fun filled junior days.
And I do wonder what exactly is on a piece of paper being signed by an 8 year old?
RV Casual wrote:Isawgarystevensscoreagoal wrote:Ymca caps and representative sides are great as they are not at the expense of your club. "Academies", and there are lots of them, take kids away from their clubs and dictate what other sport they play, which usually means none.
There are kids at academies for years who never "make it" and never experience playing in a cup final with their mates. They are happy when they are "signed on again" for another season.
Its good they have a picture as a memory because they are likely not to have too much else to look back on from their fun filled junior days.
And I do wonder what exactly is on a piece of paper being signed by an 8 year old?
Well ultimately its up to the kids and their parents, nobody is forcing them to be there.
If it was my kid he would be asked if he wanted to be there and if he didn't he wouldn't and the second he didn't want to be he'd be out.
Let's not try and play God and make decisions that arnt ours to make and trust that those in that situation make the best decision for their loved ones.
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