As some of you may know, I coach youth soccer. A few days ago, one of my players was injured during the game. It wasn't intentional. Just one of those accidents that sometimes happens at higher level soccer. Anyway, I received an email earlier today from the other team's coach inquiring about the state of my player.
You often read tales in the media of players, coaches and parents who are, to say the least, badly behaved. Sadly, I've experienced such situations myself. Sometimes we're so inundated with the idiots, that we forget there are many good people out there as well. It's easy to succomb to corrosive cynicism. But it's nice to be reminded that there are still coaches with a lot of class working with young people.
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There's an old saying that it only takes just one "Ahhh, Sh*t!" to wipe out a thousand "Attaboys!". As a fellow coach, I know it is easy to a couple of idiots overwhelm you and make you forget that, in reality, most of the coaches and many of the parents are actually pretty cool human beings.
I coached middle league and senior league baseball years ago and one time when shaking ends after we beat "Talk of the Town" the coach said to me, "If I knew you were going to play that hard I wouldn't let up like I did."
What a guy!
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