Why your kid struggles on the field and what to do about it

The Drawing Board Issue No. 002 Confidence Isn’t Built During Games We think confidence gets talked about more than almost anything else in youth soccer… and understood less than almost anything else too. A Thought Before We Begin After our first issue, we realized something. Parents ask us about confidence all the time. Players do too. Sometimes directly. Sometimes without even saying the word. It usually sounds more like… “I just don’t play like myself in games.” Or… “I don

The Drawing Board Issue No. 003 Why Hard Work Isn’t Enough in Soccer Working hard is important. Knowing what to work on is what changes players. A Thought Before We Begin One of the things we admire most about young players is effort. The players who stay after practice. The ones juggling in the backyard. The ones asking for one more repetition before they leave. That passion matters. But we’ve also seen something else. Some of the hardest-working players we coach aren’t impr