I coach in this league and have had the benefit of always coaching a very skilled team. The problem we have is when teams are winning games 10-0, 12-1, etc, etc. This is starting to become a very big problem. We are unfortunately (yes unfortunately) one of those teams that beat other teams by these scores.
The players seem to want to win and play, even the losing team in this situation. It is typically the coach of the losing team that has the most problem. Coaches in soccer compared to coaches in hockey is equivalent to night and day. When a hockey coach gets blown out by a score like that, they work on getting better as a team and work on the things that caused them to lose the game that bad. In soccer they don't do that or don't have the skilled players to do this.
It is getting to the point where teams (coaches) do not want to play us because we just have too much skill. We have constant meetings on how to improve this and a lot of the lesser teams coaches tell me to tell my players to "take it easy" or "work on passing" but I just don't believe I should have to. I understand that probably 20% of my team can play for a more competitive team and excel there but the team I coach is typically low income families that cant afford all the trips, fees, uniforms, etc.
Overall I think this is a terrible idea. Some of the kids playing in this league are part of families that don't have the resources to put their kid in a more advanced league but the kids still want to win and develop as soccer players.
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