This is the main issue that i have found within a certain English Premier League football club. Training would always be conducted in a very professional manor so to get the best possible out of the players and so the coaches would expect the very best from you. However, if you are only at the tender age of 9-14 do you really want coaches shouting at you for every little mistake you make? It's understandable that football coaches want to get the best out of their players because that is what they are being payed to do but i feel that in all this there is a ridiculous amount of pressure being put on young talented footballers which sometimes can have a dramatic impact on their football development. For example a boy i know played for a local football club until the age of 13 where he was scouted and trialed at an academy.
He was signed by that academy and had a successful first year however was plagued by injury the second year. On his return to being fully fit he found that he had almost been replaced with no further thought. Now he didn't understand this as he was only young at the time so continued to train as normal thinking once he was fully fit again that the academy would put him back into their side as before his injury he was one of the best players on the team and looked a real prospect for the club as a whole and especially as he was English this was of significance as many english players are not put through the academy systems and given the chance nowadays.
He then was not played in his position the entire season and so failed to make an impact within the team, as a result of this he felt himself being pushed further and further away from the team to the point where he was afraid to make a "mistake" within a match over fears of being dragged off the pitch and sitting on the subs bench. Is this how a 14/15yr old should be made to feel?
my opinion is no and a result of his mistreatment i later discovered the boy left the academy due to severe depression which he has now been treated for and is making a great comeback with his county squad and has since trialed for the England U18 schoolboy squad.
This is a side that is never ever shown in the media because football clubs keep a very tight lockdown on this kind of thing as it would be seen as bad publicity if the truths were to be revealed about how some football academies treat their youth players.
He was signed by that academy and had a successful first year however was plagued by injury the second year. On his return to being fully fit he found that he had almost been replaced with no further thought. Now he didn't understand this as he was only young at the time so continued to train as normal thinking once he was fully fit again that the academy would put him back into their side as before his injury he was one of the best players on the team and looked a real prospect for the club as a whole and especially as he was English this was of significance as many english players are not put through the academy systems and given the chance nowadays.
He then was not played in his position the entire season and so failed to make an impact within the team, as a result of this he felt himself being pushed further and further away from the team to the point where he was afraid to make a "mistake" within a match over fears of being dragged off the pitch and sitting on the subs bench. Is this how a 14/15yr old should be made to feel?
my opinion is no and a result of his mistreatment i later discovered the boy left the academy due to severe depression which he has now been treated for and is making a great comeback with his county squad and has since trialed for the England U18 schoolboy squad.
This is a side that is never ever shown in the media because football clubs keep a very tight lockdown on this kind of thing as it would be seen as bad publicity if the truths were to be revealed about how some football academies treat their youth players.
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