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Dougherty: Random thoughts during a D.C. United game at RFK Stadium
Joe Dougherty recently attended a D.C. United match at RFK Stadium, a venue finally in its twilight years as the franchise awaits the construction of a new stadium at Buzzard Point. In his newest blog post, Dougherty chronicles a night at the fading RFK Stadium from his walk through the parking lot to watching the action on the field and in the stands.
Four reasons why ‘Adultification’ of youth sports is hurting kids
"Changing the Game Project" founder John O'Sullivan explains four specific ways "Adultification" manifests itself in youth sports: The push to become “elite” at younger ages, over and under-emphasis on winning, the discouragement of enjoyment and treating youth sports as a means to an end.
Injury Prevention: Not magic, just maintenance
If your car needs scheduled maintenance, shouldn't your kid? So...how many miles you got on your young soccer player, asks Dr. Wendy LeBolt in her latest blog post.
The 10 best reasons to say no to the high-pressure travel team invite
Yes, we want to support our kids. Yes, we want them to have the best chance for success. But in today’s you-get-what-you-pay-for environment, it pays to remember that sometimes you can get more for less, writes Dr. Wendy LeBolt.
The Good Fight: My favorite victory in the battle against entitlement
Entitlement seems to have become a permanent feature of modern college athletics, writes SoccerWire guest columnist Dan Blank. But an unassuming U of Georgia women's soccer player named Jenna Buckley changed his entire outlook on the matter.
COLUMN: Scored a goal? Great, now go thank your teammate…
To celebrate the collective and ignore the individual beauty and creativity of soccer is wrong. But so is focusing only on the individual accomplishment and forgetting the teamwork that was necessary to getting the goal, writes Joe Dougherty in his latest column.
Hummer: ‘Club-centric’ is more than a buzzword – and the proof is on the field
Amid the game’s decades of explosive growth here, plenty of youth leagues (and tournaments) have had it pretty easy, especially on the girls’ side. But a multi-year groundswell of frustration is cresting in the form of the “club-centric” movement, a development-oriented approach which continues to challenge incumbent organizations in an increasingly competitive youth soccer environment, writes SoccerWire.com Executive Editor Chris Hummer.
Invasion 2015: Two English soccer matches feature on US network TV Saturday
For two decades Sports Illustrated has run a segment dubbed “This week's sign of the Apocalypse,” and for the dwindling ranks of “old-fashioned Americans” bred to be fearful and dismissive of soccer, that concept got a little more serious over the weekend. Their disbelieving eyes were exposed to not one, but two foreign professional soccer matches simultaneously broadcast on competing major U.S. TV networks.
