Yovav (Jay) Meydad's Personal Blog » AYSO http://www.meydad.com Thoughts on social applications, usability, search, mobile, music and sports Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Soccer 2.0 http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/14/soccer-20/ http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/14/soccer-20/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:38:18 +0000 JayMeydad http://www.meydad.com/2007/10/14/soccer-20/ I read today that Eyal Berkovitz, one of Isreal’s legendary football players, cursed the coach of his 10 years old son and threatened to “end the career” of the poor guy, because his son played only 25 minutes in a 60 minutes game.

I read this piece of news after I returned with my 6 years old son from his AYSO game where I volunteer as an assistant coach. The game was fun. It was full of action but no one cursed, shouted or got mad on the coaches. Parents hanged around the field and cheered for their kids (who played equal time slots).

I have a suggestion – perhaps the Israeli Football Association should take a look at AYSO, a wonderful program that teaches kids the game of soccer, and adopt the program’s principals. They are very easy to find since they appear on signs that are located on every field, to remind parents that Kids are #1, and that Fun – not winning – is everything.

AYSO Kids Zone Alert (photo taken during the AYSO76 league games at the La Cienaga Park, Beverly Hills)

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