Dude they are allowed up to 9 kids for technical training - what the hell are you talking about? Are you saying training without contact is just worthless - only good for "socializing"? Also... "Based on what I have seen from phase 3 training sessions" Are you going out scoping various club trainings? Or is this just really an opinion?
The facility I am at has 3-4 clubs training at it. One of them only is doing dribbling. They are not allowing the kids to pass because they considered it shared equipment or something. If last fall a parent saw a team do a training session like the ones IYSA is allowing during phase 3 they would question what the coach was doing so why is that ok just because of a pandemic? The clubs should have refunded everyone and then provided them the option to sign up for these sessions. Keeping people’s money and justifying it with Zoom and contactless technical sessions is not right. Maybe you think it is and that it fine but I think it is crap.
I don't think it's right but I think it's quite possible to have live training sessions with 9 or less players and make it meaningful. I've coached for 20 years and would have no problem with that. Most of these kids also need to get back in some sort acceptable shape so there's that as well. Then of course there are the players - who are more then happy to be back.
Anyone know when rosters need to be finalized for the fall? Anyone heard if there has been a lot of movement between clubs? More curious about girls.
FYI, Ken Snow, IU Soccer great who ran a lot of finishing camps around here died of COVID. He was 50.
I am curious about this. Did any of the clubs frequently mentioned here (i.e Fire, Sockers, FCU or Eclipse) offer any refunds or credits for the 2020-21 season?
Sockers - small discount applied to 2020/2021 registration. Campton - Reduced annual fee, reduced kit fee and we are training all the way through to the 2020/2021 season. Full practices (with entire team) start 6/27 and go through mid August.
Giving themselves 3rd ECNL Badge, in Rockford. Volk will now tell you that is obviously going to keep Eclipse NB from reaching its full potential.
This or Rockford would be a welcome addition for travel for league games. It's a bit odd that the same club is the one that is creating all the local ECNL teams but I think this is a positive development.
Volk, don't tell me you're not seeing that hockey bullshit here. Trash. I personally know a 24yo coworker with brain damage from poor oxygen perfusion and mini strokes, also a late 30s acquaintance that has to do dialysis 4 days a week after covid. Quit sleeping on this shit because "only old people are dying" it's leaving healthy people with lifelong debilitating issues.
I'm not sleeping on any shit, I'm looking at the IL DPH website and figuring out that only 5% of the Covid deaths are people under the age of 50. That includes people with underlying health conditions and obesity, which are the two big factors that affect the survival of Covid. You look at someone like Ken Snow, who physically was probably in much better shape than your average 50 year old, and he doesn't fit the Covid profile. That's all. It is not the norm.
Not usually, but this isn't as benign as everyone makes it out to be. I have I agree it's not the norm, but what aren't reported are the survival cases for folks that have lasting heath complications and lung damage from COVID. It's not just death and 100% recovery. I'm totally excited to see the kids start playing again and I think it's a risk worth taking.. but the media does bend the story depending on the political leanings of the station but neither side really discusses the complications many survivors suffer from.
Says who? I look at the data and see a big jump in deaths above normal. Those aren't counted in your data. You don't know his comorbidity, high blood pressure is not known to most with it, pre diabetic is not usually known, hell Ohio makes uppity watch a video and sign waivers on Katie's law. When Olympic swimmers can't walk up a flight of stairs I'm gonna be worried about my barely 5 days a week gym routine.
43 kids (High School & College), and three fields. Three days a week at 2 hours per day. All open play and 100% free! This is what we need more of in youth soccer!
Says who? I just said the Illinois Department of Public Health website says who. Turn off cable news and actually go to the website and look at the Covid Death Statistics page. 5.4% under the age of 50 for deaths. Yes, I didn't know KS's comorbidity. He could have been diabetic, high blood pressure, or other immune issues. Healthy people aren't DYING of this disease. Are they getting hit hard? Some are, some aren't. But dying? No. Is there always the exception? Yes, but those cases are extremely rare. Just for the record there have only been 4 deaths of children under the age of 20. I read stats on this stuff, not sensationalized news headlines.