Ontario youth soccer to stop keeping score

if the kids are 2 and playing soccer, ok! don't keep the score.

BUT GOD DAMNIT! if you are 9 years old, you should beat the shit out of the annoying enemy after the match! if you cant win you will grow up to be a pussy, just like those fuckers suing everybody and everything because it wasnt what they wanted!

MONICA MCDONALD YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED! SAME AS ALL THE OTHER CRYING FUCKTARDS WHO ARE TO WEAK TO WIN!

 
fucking canada. once again everybody has to be happy and just do shit with no goal. playing sports teaches you about life. you have to work together with people and support each other in order to reach a common goal. there are consequences when you fuck up. you have to work hard to be better than the next person, and the satisfaction of accomplishment when you've fulfilled your goal and succeeded.

YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME. YOU DON'T JUST PLAY TO PLAY.
 
because all adults know that 9 year olds can't count anyway so there's no way that this will affect them. i hope bullying increases. but thats unrelated i just want more fights. also no score is a dumb idea
 
hopefully it doesn't last. teaching kids that it's ok to be mediocre or average is a terrible way to go about things.

life is hard, and extremely competitive, and the sooner you learn that the better off you'll be. either be alpha as fuck or get out of the way and feel good about your second place finish. ugh
 
Maybe if there weren't so many shithead parents out there that start fights with other parents and threaten referee's safety over a fucking child's soccer game that doesn't even matter to the kids.

But you're all right. Keeping score for 9-year-olds is SO important to a kid's development... like I remember every heartbreaking lose and amazing victory we had on our elementary soccer team!

It wasn't good parenting that allowed me to know how to win/lose, it was all those soccer games where half the kids are standing around picking their noses. Yes, you are all very smart in being outraged over this meaningless change to a meaningless game.

 
For real.

It was a shock to me when I got older and had been playin competitive sports since I was 7 and I met people like my ex girlfriend, who freaked out when she didn't get in to the sorority she wanted and it was like the first time she had worked hard for something and "lost"
 
i honestly cant remember a time i ever really cared about winning a soccer game when i was around 9-12 years old
 
Really dumb idea. I played just for fun baseball when I was younger but that was when I was 3-5 I think. Just to learn the game and stuff, after that you bet there's a score.

People are turning into giant bitches. Kleenex must be raking in the loot right now with all these hurt feelings. We have a problem of overdoing things. We also seem to think that we can magically make all the bad things in the world disappear by changing this or that.

Parents getting into fights over their kids games = stupid. Not keeping score of kids games so they don't get their feelings hurt = stupid.

 
I hate crap like this. Let kids learn how to be competitive and how to win/lose well. This is just going to reinenforce the idea that kids are something extra special and can do nothing wrong.

Kids will end up keeping tracking of the score on their own and will still know who won/lost.
 
If they don't keep score and everyone gets rewarded equally then the will not be able to be competitive in the future to do things like getting a job when many other people are trying to get the dames spot. Instead they will just sit there and expect to be rewarded the same as someone putting in way more work into winning the game or getting the job.
 
what the fuck are you guys on about, did any one you even READ the article? this isn't about not hurting peoples feelings or anything like that. its about creating BETTER soccer players for Canada in the long term. man you guys are retarded, this isn't about your singular me against the world mentality, this is research based shit thats going to make these kids better so that years down the road when it MATTERS they can WIN games. why? because they don't have some idiot dad coach barking at them to kick the ball up to the immigrant kid who's bigger, faster and better just so he can one up his buddy on the other team. at that age win or lose isn't important, its about self expression on the pitch, having fun and learning to play the right way. keeping score has nothing to do with that, and has actually proven to be detrimental it.

the attitudes in this thread, no doubt why a country such as USA with over 300m people is so bad at soccer, same can be said of England. countries that have done away with backwards thinking ultra competitive kids play are the ones that excel - Spain, Brazil, Netherlands (kinda)
 
Yeah at the age of 9-12, we all played our hearts out for those little plastic trophies that we never kept! I played for the score and only for the score.
 
Yeah and every win/loss at that age REALLY shaped me as a person. Who knows how I would have turned out if they didn't keep score in elementary school and I didn't learn the valuable and complicated life lesson that is "winning is cool, losing not so much"...

I'd probably be a homeless man whose only purpose is to rape feral dogs.

Have fun with all your dog-raping homeless scum, Canada.
 
Yeah it's not unreasonable at all that you know how you would have acted in a theoretical situation when you were 10 YEARS FUCKING OLD... did you just turn 13?
 
Im 17 and have a good recollection towards things that I haven't changed my mind about since I was five.

I don't know why you're trying to argue my opinion, it hasn't and probably wont change for quite some time
 
so do you do anything for fun and self improvement, or is everything just about winning for you?

anyways, your anecdotal "evidence" is totally dubious and doesnt mean shit compared to actual studies done on this topic. they were actually just talking about this on cnn - the research and expert opinions all check out, winning aint god when youre 10 years old, having fun with youre pals is way more important

 
could not disagree more, nothing pisses me off like the "everybody gets a trophy" deal, is that really the work ethic you would want to teach your kids? 9 years old is a lot older then you're making it sound like...
 
I think you missed the part WHERE THE KIDS DON'T GIVE A SHIT, IT IS ONLY THE PARENTS THAT CARE.

If you are super competitive and you want your kids to have sports be nothing but trying as hard as you can to win, THEN ENROLL THEM INTO A PRIVATE YOUTH LEAGUE.

Jesus christ, they're fucking 10-years-old... who gives a shit. They already give trophies to EVERYONE and guess what, NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Shocking...
 
you guys are really overestimating this. kids will still giv'r without keeping score that you can be sure of, they know how to be passionate and have fun without everything being a competition
 
No way man, kids are only out there for the big W, bro. They're out there to stack points because kids at that age really understand abstract concepts like that...

Or, oh my god... they could be out there giving it their all because THEY HAVE FUN DOING SO AND MAKING THEIR PARENTS HAPPY IS AWESOME.

Naw, it cannot be that. It's too absurd to believe that little children care about anything but winning. This isn't youth sports, THIS IS FUCKING SPARTA!!!
 
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