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Child safety is a paramount concern to United Futbol Academy. With that in mind, our policy prohibits staff members from communicating specific information about a child or team to any individual not listed in the child’s registration information. We appreciate your understanding.
Dear Parents,
UFA will use this corner to assist parents with their soccer experience. We hope you will be a frequent visitor to this page and will find the information helpful. Please take a look at the following presentation and videos. You will find them very useful. Then you can further your education with the information posted bellow and on the side menu. We feel so strongly about this that we will give you a discount on spiritwear if you complete the first course and any of the other three noted below!
We have also subscribed to the FA’ RESPECT Program, a program to address unacceptable behavior in football – on and off the pitch. The FA provides a completely free online course that is available to anybody. Everyone that completes the course and achieves the pass mark can immediately print off an accredited certificate directly from the website. To take this very informative course, please look at the left submenu and click on “The Respect Program.”
When children enter a sport program, they automatically assume responsibilities. But they also have rights. Adults need to respect these rights if young athletes are to have a safe and rewarding sport experience. The
National Association for Sport and Physical Education’s Youth Sports Task Force has developed a “Bill of Rights for Young Athletes”. The rights identified by these medical experts, sport scientists, and national youth sport administrators are presented.
In any sport, players develop skills via a combination of practices and competitions. This begs the questions: what should the practices-to-games ratio be; how often should we schedule games.
A look at sideline bahavior and its impact on player performance. This article addresses an increasingly disturbing trend in youth soccer.
Parents play a vital role in youth soccer but are often the least informed stake holders. Most parents’ primary goal is to help their child enjoy his/her soccer experience and help them reach their potential. In addition to that, many parents help manage their child’s team and some even hold important positions at their youth club. Most board members and decision makers at youth clubs are parents.
Georgia Soccer recognizes the important contribution made by parents in youth soccer and appreciates the challenges facing parents in their quest for guidance on how to help their child reach his/her potential in life, how to be supportive, and how to help their club in its mission to develop players.
To that end, Georgia Soccer offers a comprehensive menu of free Parent Education Seminars, free Online Introductory courses, and Soccer Parenting online courses for nominal fees. In addition to that, we also post articles and videos specifically geared to soccer parents, which can be found at
www.gasoccer.com.
Parent Education
Parent Your Best
Jeremy Boone shares keys at becoming a true sporting parent. Sporting Parents, can be and in most care are, the key element in the sporting success of a young athlete. Read about how you can become the reason your child succeeds in sport.
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Feeding the Young Athlete
Cynthia Lair and Scott Murdoch present information on what young athletes should eat, when they should eat and how to shop for their food. It includes some informational graphics to easily present ideas, such as what and when to eat on a game day.
READ MOREDeveloping Creative Potential within Each Child
Horst Wein provides the 10 most important conditions to develop creative potential in youth players. His list includes suggestions like letting kids play every position, giving the players more freedom to create their own training games and using more games than exercises in training.
READ MOREWinning vs. Development
I don’t think they are mutually exclusive. Winning, or having a good chance at winning, is an outcome of good player development. Let’s be clear up front – always try to win. There’s nothing wrong with winning. It’s winning at any cost that is a problem. When the outcome of a match is more important than young players having the chance to perform, then a coach must take a step back. It’s the drive to win at the detriment of the players that is a problem in youth soccer today.
READ MOREDiversity Can Be a Burden to Bear
At some point during each season, our boys begin to notice what has become commonplace. On multiple occasions, the Morristown boys soccer team is the target of racial and ethnic slurs. Highly offensive and inappropriate comments have become an uninvited tradition for our boys, both on the field and from the sidelines. What some coaches and players have dismissed as “trash talk” is, upon closer examination, highly inappropriate and deeply sad.
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