Watching your kids football matches

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My lad started playing in October, he’s 5, I go to his training sessions twice a week but he doesn’t play in the matches yet as he isn’t good enough. It suits me as the matches are Saturday and Sunday.

It’s a big commitment the kids footy, he could rain 3 times a week but I only take him to 2 of them as he has swimming twice a week as well.

There’s a few there that think their kid will be the next big thing so take them to every session and match, as well as shouting at them all session. Their kids will no doubt hate footy by the time they get to their teenage years.

I think you need to find a balance of them still enjoying it, and you not finding it a chore as it takes up so much of your time.
 

magicjuan said:
Help out with my lads under 15s and it's starting to get a bit rough now, all boiling hormones and full on dickheads.
Taking over as manager next year so won't have much choice, but you being there is important to your kids.
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I was involved in both coaching my lads footy team and his rugby team, I also refereed the rugby for a long time ( really easy, as the kids are taught to respect the ref from the age of 5 ) So from the age of 5, I`d say I`ve probably only missed a couple of games in both.

The rugby really takes some commitment, as you can be travelling as far as Penrith to play a game and a close game away game, would be somewhere like Lymm.

100% the hardest part of the footy coaching the kids, was the parents.

They tend to fall into the following categories :

Sound - they played a bit themselves, get on with everyone, have a laugh, due to their own experiences know their lad isn`t going to be a pro and enjoy watching him.

Knobhead - Think they`re kid is Pele, all the other kids are crap and are only there to give the ball to their kid. They`re acutely of aware when the shady scouts are there, in their club coats and coach their kid from the side, telling them to ignore everything they`ve been taught and instead never pass the ball, to try and score a worldee every chance they get. They`re whole life is their lad becoming a pro.

Scum - Turn up still bevvied / beaked up from the night before, smoking skunk, encourage the mini version of them to " snap " every opposition player. They try and wind up the fellow scum parents on the opposite touchline and threaten the referee with violence, which can occasionally lead to the game being abandoned.
 
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Parents sound terrible, in the states it’s the opposite. Nobody knows soccer and it’s by far the most relaxed youth sport. Baseball parents are the worst. Yank football coaches are the worst. Basketball is better than both of those but can still be terrible.
 

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