Youth soccer leaders have real opportunity again to make important decision!

It has become an annual event the past two seasons. Important games, huge crowds and an opportunity to light the fire of passion underneath young soccer players. The HOUSTON DYNAMO play on November 9th in a playoff match at Robertson Stadium at 2pm.
Yes an afternoon match that fits in to the TELEFUTURA time slot on national television.
So once again youth soccer leadership has an oportunity to make an important player development decision in the name of youth players by re-scheduling games on this day to put the focus on the professional game and the Dynamo .

Hopefully a “GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY” to influence young soccer players will be taken advantage of ? Why would we not acknowledge the importance of this alliance with professional soccer and the DYNAMO by re-scheduling these games?

Every year youth soccer leadership which boils down to administrators with SOUTH TEXAS YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION, EDDOA, TYSA , coaching directors of clubs and other organizations are thick into schedules that are to heavy and to crowded. Yes HURRICANE IKE this year has created a back-log of games but each and every year it is the same. So why haven’t schedules been pared down to benefit the players and create less pressure so that players can thrive with more of a focus on the sport. Real simple, because many still work under the archaic mindset of the more games you get the better the bang for the buck.
The U.S. Soccer Development Academy is up and running with fewer games knowing the importance of the proper balance of training and games.
One day decisions like these to consistently re-schedule games on the occasion of an influential professional game will become second nature. Yet for the time being one has to really wonder what is going on and what type of vision we have nurturing the future of young soccer players.
I have received numerous emails hopeful that leadership will make a very obvious smart decision.
I am hopeful as well because I have benefited myself from wise decision making when I was a young player. My coaches always encouraged going to watch the professional team I grew up with in New Jersey …the New York Cosmos. My coaches clearly understood the importance of the sport on the grander scale.

I am still hoping to hear from our local leadership if young players will be able to attend this playoff match. I also wonder where coaching directors of clubs are ? Are you pushing and encouraging for leadership to re-schedule?
Lets not miss an important opportunity to influence young soccer players in a bigger way. Bigger than one game on one day.