Something really hurt me today, I have coached a child for 4 years since he was 5 years old. He feels like a son to me, today his parents told me they were taking him to a “better club” and the coaching was “crap”
I’m totally gutted because I have given so much and never asked for anything in return.
Results don’t bother me and I was trying to keep a bunch of kids together as a team through there child hood years. I asked what the child wanted and they said he wanted to “win”
Often you hear of coaches dropping kids etc but you never hear of kids/parents dropping the coaches. Over the last few weeks I’ve found that as soon as something better comes along that’s it they are off to that place or as soon as things get tough they are not willing to stick it out they would rather jump ship.
I find that some parents have no loyalty to the coach that has gave up a lot of his/her time to help them but if a coach is letting a kid go then he is awful and slated. It’s not always the coach that’s the bad guy.
As they left the child in question was crying his eyes out. What have I done wrong?
