What do you get out of select soccer?

After paying 6 or 7 years of select soccer, which can be quite a lot. What does your kid get out of it?

I am sure that not many kids will become professional player. So, what is the benefit?

are other sports (basketball or football) just as costly, and have lots of dramas like soccer?

I assume this is a rhetorical question.

1. Life lessons (team work, respect others, work as a team ect.. )
2. Help the kid stay away from trouble
3. Stay in great shape
4. Pass classes and behave or no more Select soccer
5. Give the kid the tools and support to play select, is up to him how much he loves the sport
6. Scholarship or pro

Yes, other sports are just as expensive, and ugh, even more expensive than soccer! But watching your child do something they love is its own reward. Trick for most parents is to ensure the kid loves it and not the parents.

As a manager: a headache. Lol

03lovingsoccer wrote:As a manager: a headache. Lol

Amen. But some great relationships with parents and kids you want around your child too.

socBall02 wrote:After paying 6 or 7 years of select soccer, which can be quite a lot. What does your kid get out of it?

I am sure that not many kids will become professional player. So, what is the benefit?

are other sports (basketball or football) just as costly, and have lots of dramas like soccer?

Life lessons, as in how to be in the work place.

How brown nosing works ?
How having skills cannot get you fired ?
How people treat others when they are in positions of power ?
How people treat other when their skills are diminishing?

Really good life lessons.

Certainly it gets you used to dealing with whiners

Lol!! Number 13!! I assume your talking about some is these parents that come on here and always complain about select soccer? If so, bravo! Cause in tired of hearing these parents complain time and time again. Here's the thing, if you dislike NTX select soccer so much......DON'T PLAY! Have your kid sit at home and play video games and eat chips all day! The world of select soccer will go on without you! But whatever you do stop whinny all the time like little girls. Speaking of witch, do you know how much select volleyball cost?? I do! And your gonna complain about the cost of select soccer?? Either enjoy your time with your kids playing a sport, that hopefully they love playing, or get out. But stop complaining about everything, it gets old.

Honestly, soccer has been good for our family... it's gotten my wife and I playing soccer with friends we have met along the way, my son is in great physical shape and has a sport that he can play for the rest of his life, it has taught him to work through pain instead of a lot of kids who throw a fit, it has basically eliminated video games from the house (we don't have TV so that's not a problem). The cost is kind of annoying, but I feel like the rewards far outweigh the cost. It could probably be done cheaper, but he enjoys it and he's a good kid and a great big brother, so we feel like he's worth it. We don't have delusions that he will be a pro one day... but I think there's value in doing something you love and striving to the best... which doesn't have to end up making you money one day. Soccer can be a damn fine hobby, and hobbies cost money.

I guess there are a lot of life lessons to learn from playing select soccer. It depends on whether you have the time and money for it. Thanks for all the comments.

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mavericks67 wrote:1. Life lessons (team work, respect others, work as a team ect.. )
2. Help the kid stay away from trouble
3. Stay in great shape
4. Pass classes and behave or no more Select soccer
5. Give the kid the tools and support to play select, is up to him how much he loves the sport
6. Scholarship or pro

This is a good list. I would add any pay to play sport is a pretty good (if not the only) alternative to high school sports for those not able to make those teams, but still want to experience the great life lessons.

mavericks67 wrote:1. Life lessons (team work, respect others, work as a team ect.. )
2. Help the kid stay away from trouble
3. Stay in great shape
4. Pass classes and behave or no more Select soccer
5. Give the kid the tools and support to play select, is up to him how much he loves the sport
6. Scholarship or pro

7. Sets your BB up with a clear understanding (and expectation) of a lifetime of fitness.
8. Soccer is a "lifetime sport". The knowledge he gains now will allow him to be social and active in the soccer community for the rest of his life if he chooses.

mavericks67 wrote:1. Life lessons (team work, respect others, work as a team ect.. )
2. Help the kid stay away from trouble
3. Stay in great shape
4. Pass classes and behave or no more Select soccer
5. Give the kid the tools and support to play select, is up to him how much he loves the sport
6. Scholarship or pro

on #1: You can get the "life lessons" you mention from any team sport, including rec teams, so I don't think select soccer gets any special points here

on #2: agree, although any number of activities will do that, including rec sports, so nothing special about select there

on #3: true, but a bit over-rated. kids i've seen from, say, football, wrestling, and swimming seem to be more fit than a lot of select soccer kids; but no doubt soccer is good exercise

on #4: that depends on the parents, not select soccer

on #6: Very rare, you certainly cant EXPECT select to yield those

Liverpool00/02 wrote: Cause in tired of hearing these parents complain time and time again. Here's the thing, if you dislike NTX select soccer so much......DON'T PLAY! Have your kid sit at home and play video games and eat chips all day! The world of select soccer will go on without you! But whatever you do stop whinny all the time like little girls. Speaking of witch, do you know how much select volleyball cost?? I do! And your gonna complain about the cost of select soccer?? Either enjoy your time with your kids playing a sport, that hopefully they love playing, or get out. But stop complaining about everything, it gets old.

oh quit yer whining Liverpool

The cognitive dissonance of complaining about complaining is awesome.

Liverpool00/02 wrote:Lol!! Number 13!! I assume your talking about some is these parents that come on here and always complain about select soccer? If so, bravo! Cause in tired of hearing these parents complain time and time again. Here's the thing, if you dislike NTX select soccer so much......DON'T PLAY! Have your kid sit at home and play video games and eat chips all day! The world of select soccer will go on without you! But whatever you do stop whinny all the time like little girls. Speaking of witch, do you know how much select volleyball cost?? I do! And your gonna complain about the cost of select soccer?? Either enjoy your time with your kids playing a sport, that hopefully they love playing, or get out. But stop complaining about everything, it gets old.

Your right my bb doesn't play select soccer and by the looks of it his doing just fine if not better, from what I have seen.

Other life lessons gained from select soccer:
-just because a coach is being paid does not necessarily make him a professional.
-when a coach touts a focus on "development" he may not mean "player development", it may mean "team development" (cut & recruit).
-When you hear that a coach has "passion for the game" it may just be a euphemism for anger managemt issues.

God's Son wrote:

Liverpool00/02 wrote:Lol!! Number 13!! I assume your talking about some is these parents that come on here and always complain about select soccer? If so, bravo! Cause in tired of hearing these parents complain time and time again. Here's the thing, if you dislike NTX select soccer so much......DON'T PLAY! Have your kid sit at home and play video games and eat chips all day! The world of select soccer will go on without you! But whatever you do stop whinny all the time like little girls. Speaking of witch, do you know how much select volleyball cost?? I do! And your gonna complain about the cost of select soccer?? Either enjoy your time with your kids playing a sport, that hopefully they love playing, or get out. But stop complaining about everything, it gets old.

Your right my bb doesn't play select soccer and by the looks of it his doing just fine if not better, from what I have seen.

So sayeth the Lord

Dropball wrote:Other life lessons gained from select soccer:

-When you hear that a coach has "passion for the game" it may just be a euphemism for anger managemt issues.

Sadly that applies to players as well in some instances with their parents encouragement.

Rooneyhasplugs wrote:

Dropball wrote:Other life lessons gained from select soccer:

-When you hear that a coach has "passion for the game" it may just be a euphemism for anger managemt issues.

Sadly that applies to players as well in some instances with their parents encouragement.

Sadly... That aplies to parents as well, more often than players in my experience.

Liverpool00/02 wrote:But stop complaining about everything, it gets old.

I don't think OP was complaining as such. It's a very valid question. We as parents drive our kids everywhere, we spend money, we sit in the heat for hours ... we spend so much time, effort, money; blood, sweat, and tears on this whole select soccer effort. And to what end?

There are many valid answers to this question, and each family will have their own answer as to whether it is all worth it. But, I do think some parents have some unrealistic expectations of the whole select soccer experience and I think they may have some regrets when their kid is graduating high school and they wonder where the last 18 years went.

Just some food for thought!  

Dropball wrote:

Rooneyhasplugs wrote:

Dropball wrote:Other life lessons gained from select soccer:

-When you hear that a coach has "passion for the game" it may just be a euphemism for anger managemt issues.

Sadly that applies to players as well in some instances with their parents encouragement.

Sadly... That aplies to parents as well, more often than players in my experience.

true

OnTheSurface wrote:

Liverpool00/02 wrote:But stop complaining about everything, it gets old.

I don't think OP was complaining as such.  It's a very valid question.   We as parents drive our kids everywhere, we spend money, we sit in the heat for hours ... we spend so much time, effort, money; blood, sweat, and tears on this whole select soccer effort.  And to what end?  

There are many valid answers to this question, and each family will have their own answer as to whether it is all worth it.   But, I do think some parents have some unrealistic expectations of the whole select soccer experience and I think they may have some regrets when their kid is graduating high school and they wonder where the last 18 years went.  

Just some food for thought!   

A lot of truth in your comment. I'd love to see a survey done of parents at the end of their select soccer experience.