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LTPD article in Globe
Good article on LTPD in Globe today, pg A8&9
Am I the only one looking at this half-asleep and wondering LTPD? Lesbian, transgendered, errr...what does that stand for?
Long Term Player Development
Here's the online version:Originally Posted by lattes
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ontent=2416453
Read the comments on the article and you get a bit of a feeling as to why youth soccer is so ****ed in this country and why attempts to put in an effective LTPD program have been met with incredible backlash.
Thinking exactly the same thing, we need as many people as possible to comment there and try to drill some sense into those dinosaurs.
It is such a stupid narrow minded idea of what competition 'is' - these people seem to think that bullies make everyone 'better', and if not they don't deserve to get 'better' because they suck. The argument seems to be more directed at society as a whole than any knowledge of what the world of a kid is like. It is the stupid thinking that paying people a fair and decent wage makes them worse workers and super rich make everyone better. But that debate has NOTHING to do with kids kicking a ball around, one way or another, which is a completely DIFFERENT thing.
Kids are going to be competitive whether the overall rules are or not - they know the goal of soccer is to score A GOAL, which is competitive!-, kids will know who is more talented on the field every time they get passed on the field or the ball taken away, not having trophies given does not change these REAL moments of competition. Trophies and tables are for parents. Kids don't need adults getting gratification for 'winning' through the forced heightened competition that is for the adults (parents/coaches). Kids playing is not a spectator sport.
The changes being made are being made to get adults ideas of competition out of the sport so that a few knowledgeable adults can help the kids compete, in the way the rules of the sport automatically promotes, better. In reality, adults are upset that they wont be able to compete anymore through their children, not that the children are being coddled in a world without competition.
I'd add that in many ways what these people are rejecting is the removal of the symbols useful for spectator-form competition: trophies and tables are tools for driving spectator's participation. These tools are plastered onto kid's games so that adults can compete through their children, but it also creates the life-long cultural expectation that watching your children is a form of acceptable adult competition. These people are the big losers who don't want to compete for themselves, they want kids to do it for them; ironically exactly the type of human being they are supposedly against and want to get rid of.
Last edited by elmateo; 04-28-2012 at 01:21 PM.
Trying to keep up with the Reds, while following the azulgrana of Buenos Aires.
God dammit I hate how no one has any idea about this sport.
Red as a newborn. White as a corpse.
The competition thing is one element, but to me the real problem is people's ignorance. There are a lot of self-described 'experts' in this country who really throw a wrench in things. They can't seem to be able to connect the dots between "ask the kids to hoof the ball down the field as far as possible" and "why does Chile pass the ball around us with ease?"
I had parents complain when I was coaching that there wasn't enough conditioning training, to which I responded without more technical training and work on the ball you're developing the soccer equivalent of "ankle skaters" and no amount of running was going to solve that problem.
The problem is that these people automatically see the word "competition" and think that it's used in an economic way. The word "competition" here does not mean "profit motive." Kids are kids. They're not businesses.
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