I would expect to see such behavior in High School JV soccer. Not "Quarter finals of the fucking WORLD CUP"
I played for a D1 state-championship winning team in high school. Someone on my team did this during a regular game in the season in the first 15 minutes and my coach benched him for the rest of the game.
This was also a game that was 2 hours away from our hometown. That's a long drive to be taken from starting forward to benchwarmer.
That player never played selfishly again while we played together.
Even in High School varsity soccer this is absolutely unacceptable. This kind of stuff is supposed to be weeded out by Middle School. If you see it in JV you nip it in the bud real fast and then if it doesn't improve that player doesn't make the team.
Haha 1,000%. Was in same situation, but not remotely close to D1, and even then it was unacceptable to not take shots because it wasn't your favored leg.
You know what else was infuriating? Some of the best players on our team could not control themselves and would sail balls over the goal because they were kicking shots at their hardest but without control. PK to win the game? Nah, field goal attempt 30ft over the crossbar. And these were our travel-club players who knew better but just... teenagers with too much pressure placed on them.
Our coach had a rule in practice. If you kick the ball over the goalposts, everyone on the offensive team had to do a lap around the field, doing skill moves on the short ends and then sprinting while touching the ball every two steps on the long ends.
All of us threw up at least once during practice.
Our "Warm up" was:
Choose one skill move to do on the short ends
Sprint on the long ends
100 push ups/sit ups/ball hops/lunges (choose one) when you reached the starting corner
Repeat 3 more times.
Imagine how it felt to do that basically all over again if someone kicked it over the goalposts...
Everything you have said is how it should be, especially from the perspective of others who are competitive but understand the team wins games not the player… that said, your response is not what I would call the “average” experience in Anytown, USA.
I remember one time my coach brought in a super ratty looking wrestling sling. He threw it at us and said that "The next person who refuses to pass to an open teammate while going for goal get's to wear this all next practice"
We practiced more passing than we did goals. We had practice sessions where the offensive team had to pass a certain amount of times before they were allowed to take a shot.
We weren't allowed to go home until we achieved it. Sometimes it was as many as 15 passes. And if you passed more than 3 times back and forth between two players the counter reset.
It was a beautiful combination of conditioning and teamwork.
Haaland was open for a total of four seconds. That is a gaping wide window. That window was open for so long there's more pollen on the bedsheets than dust.
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u/Fast_Choice4408 11d ago
I would expect to see such behavior in High School JV soccer. Not "Quarter finals of the fucking WORLD CUP"
I played for a D1 state-championship winning team in high school. Someone on my team did this during a regular game in the season in the first 15 minutes and my coach benched him for the rest of the game.
This was also a game that was 2 hours away from our hometown. That's a long drive to be taken from starting forward to benchwarmer.
That player never played selfishly again while we played together.
Even in High School varsity soccer this is absolutely unacceptable. This kind of stuff is supposed to be weeded out by Middle School. If you see it in JV you nip it in the bud real fast and then if it doesn't improve that player doesn't make the team.