The Faith-Based Advocacy Group distributed its fall update on how to get players and coaches involved, keeping the game fun, and how to get in touch.
See the message below from group chair Mike Lynch. To read the full update click here.
Whether it be in our TEAMs or our families, in some shape or form, I’m sure we all have. Why? We are wired for play, for being relational, for competing, for even overcoming fear or anxiety individually like challenging thrill of riding your bicycle “hands free” for the first time or executing the game plan against a superior opponent with success. Joy keeps the motivation engine running and is at the root of this issue’s focus – “The rule of fun,” the third of United Soccer Coaches seven cornerstones to building positive team culture (Commitment to Culture). United Soccer Coaches appropriately places a special emphasis on this cornerstone for several reasons, most notably, because they know kids (and adults) PLAY soccer and they will continue to play soccer when they, “…want to do it again.”