Comments on: COACH QUITS AFTER ROW WITH PARENT ABOUT TOP GOAL SCORER AWARD

By: neil

neil — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:45:19 +0000

In reply to Robert-Hedges. Robert, the children begin training for football they are not a striker or defender. they are all just players. The striker trains hard and earns his place as the bst goal scorer by being better than his peer at converting chances. if at training the kid who is now your defender was better at scoring he would be the striker. It is the extremely fair, they all arrive at a club with the same opportunity the forwards have earned the right to compete for the award due to their performance in training. Ignoring the award risks not instilling the importnace of scoring. the game is about scoring goals, thats how you win. Its another product of a socirty that does not like to admit it is a competition, you dont have to be mean to the other kids they have been great but it is still a competition and we can reconize those that excel. Maybe add a award for best defender instead of taking away the incentive to score, the thing we need to do to win games. But the parent should respect your decision and if he can not behane respectfully they should not be part of your club.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:46:35 +0000

Kids sports should do away with individualistic awards all together. Bevaiwe youre never going to get the balance right. I personally don’t see any problem for golden boot- because kids thoroughly enjoy scoring goals what’s wrong with that and celebrating that? It’s a big part of the game. You should also have best defender and keeper trophies to even it out. My son’s team has players player and most improved which are also silly and individualistic. The kids just vote for their friends or out of spite and the adults that are voting also have questionable judgment/motives. That means the best player in the team this season has been shunned and that’s devastating fir an 8byear old kid (so where’s the fairness in that?)

By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:03:26 +0000

I totally agree with you about not awarding the trophyand for the reasons stated. To put this into perspective my son has near enough always been the top goal scorer in his grassroots team over the years, even when he’s not played striker. He’s never been bothered about receiving an award for it as he believes the reward is scoring the goal itself. Equally he’d rather the pass the ball to a player who’s in a dead cert better position to score rather than have a crack at goal himself and possibly miss costing the team the result. I’m so proud of the ethos he has surrounding this and its a shame some parents don’t have a more mature attitude too rather then trying to live their own dreams through their child. Good for you fpr sticking by your morals.

By: Steve Rosser

Steve Rosser — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:00:57 +0000

As a club we gave a golden boots and golden gloves award to top scorers and most clean sheets is whole club.This is then seen as a award for the whole team rather then an individual. The golden boots tends to go to younger age groups and golden gloves to one of the older age groups. If there are players who are level we give out more rhem 1 award. Seems to work for our kids.

By: Aleksandar Gjorgjieski

Aleksandar Gjorgjieski — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:36:20 +0000

Dear,
I have over 25 years of experience in the football business.
I have attended many matches, and for the past 4-5 years, I have been closely following children aged 12. I have witnessed many deviant behaviors that occur at matches, such as: coaches arguing with other coaches, coaches arguing with referees, parents arguing with coaches and referees, and all of this happening in front of the children’s eyes. I concluded that many coaches in Macedonia are not adequately educated, neither are the referees, and parents seek an exit through their children (one day my child will be Messi Ronaldo and we will have money). These problems are not addressed by either the football federation or the sports inspectorate. As for football tournaments, I personally am against awarding prizes for the top scorer, best player, or goalkeeper. I always advocate for awarding a participation diploma and for all children to be happy, rather than one child having momentary happiness.
The consequences of these awards are long-term; that child becomes a star, and when they reach a certain age, they practically disappear. I have one example: imagine 10 children and one receives chocolate while the others do not? What feelings do those children have?
Best regards
Aleksandar Gjorgjieski

By: DT

DT — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 13:32:06 +0000

I was always reluctant to give out trophies as I felt it just made life difficult – never done it for my oldest boys team.

My youngest started U7’s and scored a lot of goals…….however, he also passed the ball a lot and set up goals. Parents pushed for trophies so he was awarded Golden Boot.

A few moans after so at the start of season, I said there would be a trophy for ‘most assists’. He’s our top scorer again but also has the most assists and he plays up front. Another boy up front has no assists – but always wants to score a goal or hat trick as his mum told him!!

My boy should have won managers player but he didn’t – I felt I couldn’t.

Whatever you do, you can’t win and why should a boy with a natural talent, who’s not greedy and a good team player be awarded for his efforts. He practices a lot, works up so why not.

We done a golden gloves award, regular keeper obviously wins it but why not – he stepped up and volunteered, works hard so should be rewarded.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:11:29 +0000

I totally agree, it should be a team award not an individual award. My son is a defender and hardly ever scores, but what he cares about are clean sheets. He gets just as excited about keeping a clean sheet as the strikers do about scoring. But you never see awards for most tackles, blocks and interceptions. Being defender I think requires more skill and courage than just sticking the ball in the net because you have to read the game and be prepared to go all-in, sliding tackles the lot. It takes real grit and determination but defenders just don’t get the recognition they deserve.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:40:20 +0000

I refused to do a top goal scorer award for our team for exactly the same reasoning against the wishes of the person I coached alongside, goal scorer award is only something that should be done across a league not a team, then there is fair competion, if doing for a team you would have to then add top assist, golden glove, etc etc, to give every position the same chance of an award that mainly a striker is only likely to get with a golden boot award.

By: Peter Clark

Peter Clark — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:29:34 +0000

All players should receive a wee trophy as a member of the team .no other awards should be given until they have been together a couple of years .inclusion and participation at that age is far more important. The other rewards like most improved. Best team mate Best trainer top goal scorer should be introduced later.I was involved in coaching kids from 9 yrs old upto 18 yrs old and unfortunately parents can be either a great asset or the biggest hindrance.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:20:46 +0000

In reply to Robert-Hedges. My opinion maybe the league could have a trophy for top goal scorer so then the child competing against others in league don't agree with it as a club trophy as you say only a few then can compete