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Kenmore Soccer News
Volume 12, Number 3 Kenmore/Tonawanda, New York March 2019
Celtic FC Summer Camp at Kenney Field
Kenmore Soccer Signs Partnership Agreement
With One Of The World’s Largest Professional Soccer Clubs
Kenmore Soccer has entered into a partnership agreement with Celtic
FC of Glasgow, Scotland, one of the world’s largest soccer clubs.
The agreement will provide Kenmore Soccer players with access to
opportunities that no other club in western New York can provide,
including:
• A full-day summer camp led by Celtic FC Academy coaches
during the week of July 22nd at Kenney Field.
• Opportunities for travel teams to journey to the Celtic Academy
in Glasgow for training.
• Participation at Celtic FC Elite ID camps held annually in the
Albany, New York area
• Coach access to Celtic FC Academy training materials.
Summer Camp registration is now open. Log into your account and you
can register by clicking on the new “Programs Available” button by the
player’s name.
We are excited for this major enhancement to our programs. No other
club in our area offers opportunities like this for their players, and we
remain committed to continuing to grow the game of soccer for the
community.
1Kenmore Soccer Player Excels
in Swimming Championships
Kenmore Soccer encourages interested athletes to participate in multiple sports, and we are
always happy to see them excel in other areas. A great example is Ben Harper, a member of
the 19 and Under Kenmore Sting, and an outstanding swimmer.
As the defending champion in two events, expectations were great for Ben coming into this
season’s Section VI High School championships, and he delivered.
Ben repeated atop both the 50 and 100-meter freestyle races, and also was part of a winning
relay, headlining the Section VI swimming and diving championships.
Ben was named the event’s Most Outstanding Swimmer and took first place in the 50 freestyle
in 21.27 seconds and after a short break, captured first place with a time of 47.5 seconds in
the 100 freestyle. He also topped his times in last year’s championships.
In addition, Ben was also a part of his high school’s first-place 200 freestyle relay team, which
finished in 1:29.75.
And beyond all of that, Ben also qualified for the New York State finals in the 100-yard breast-
stroke but did not race in that event at sectionals.
Congratulations Ben! In an era where there is more and more sports specialization at an early
age, you have shown that it is possible to excel in multiple sports.
Submissions Anyone ????????????
We want this to be your newsletter. We also want you to be a part of the Club web
site. So, we are looking for your ongoing input—articles, pictures, match highlights,
team and player recognition, etc. Each team should consider having a designee that
can channel
information to the Club for inclusion in the newsletter or web site.
Send your submissions to us at doc@kenmoresoccer.com. Pictures are welcome, but
should be in a jpg or gif format.
Trivia Question
(answer on page 6)
Who is the oldest player to participate in an
English Premier League match?
2Kenmore Elite 12 and Under Girls
Capture Sahlen’s League Title
Congratulations to the 12 and Under Kenmore Elite girls for capturing the Winter B
League championship at Sahlen’s Sports Park. The team finished with a 6-1-1 record, con-
cluding with an exciting 3-2 shootout win over the Amherst Thunder 13U girls in the
championship match.
Along the way, the girls defeated the WNY Flash twice, including a 2-1 win in the semi-
final. Lily Cook made exceptional saves in every game, and despite being the smallest
team in stature, the girls outworked every team, moved the ball quickly and effectively,
and generally impressed their competition and the referees.
Congratulations girls…...we are all looking forward to watching you in the future.
3Too Much of One Good Thing
Sports Specialization Among Youth Has Serious Drawbacks
by Alex Putterman (Hartford Courant)
Steve Boyle remembers exactly when he realized that young athletes faced too much pressure to specialize in a
single sport.
Boyle’s daughter had tried out for a local travel soccer team, and the coach was on the phone, explaining that
the 9-year-old was his top prospect and would fit perfectly into his schematic system. Then, as Boyle recalls it,
he asked how the travel team’s schedule would affect his daughter’s desire to play lacrosse in the spring. The
coach went silent.
“It went from ‘No. 1 prospect’ to ‘no longer interested’ simply because of a 9-year-old’s interest in another
sport,” Boyle remembered recently, more than 10 years later. “And I thought, ‘I cannot believe how much the
world has changed.’ ”
Soon after that phone call, Boyle started 2-4-1 Sports, an organization that hosts multi-sport camps and clinics
and advocates for athletes to sample different sports, instead of sticking to one. (The organization’s name comes
from the credo that, “Life’s 2 short 4 just 1 sport.”) Last year, he quit his job in the West Hartford school system
— where he had coached track and field, soccer, basketball and lacrosse and also served as a guidance counse-
lor — to focus full-time on the cause.
Coaches and administrators across Connecticut have witnessed up close a national trend over the past 10 or 15
years in which kids specialize in a single sport in elementary or middle school, playing year-round for club and
travel teams in pursuit of elusive college scholarships, despite the risk of injury, burnout and stalled develop-
ment.
And although specialization can make sense for self-motivated elite athletes with credible dreams of professional
or Olympic careers, experts say the trend has spread too far.
“I think it’s sort of in the water in a lot of places,” said Steve Smith, a sports psychologist who has studied spe-
cialization. “It just feels like there’s this pressure culturally for kids to be the best at everything and to really bolt
in and know what they want to do really early. We’ve lost the multi-sport athlete.”
Early specialization can carry significant costs, experts say, including increased risk for burnout and overuse inju-
ries. Baseball pitchers who throw year-round, for example, can be more prone to serious elbow issues, while ath-
letes across sports who specialize have been found to have higher rates of inactivity as adults.
And although early specialization tends to help athletes succeed in the short-term, it might actually hinder their
long-run performance. Research suggests athletes benefit physically, cognitively and psychologically from playing
multiple sports, while also remaining healthier than their counterparts who specialize. The website Tracking Foot-
ball reports 29 of the 32 first-round picks in the 2018 NFL draft were multi-sport athletes in high school, along
with 30 of the 32 first-round picks in the 2017 NFL draft.
Smith said athletes can benefit, in terms of both health and performance, from exercising different muscles
throughout their development, as opposed to over-exerting the same ones.
“When you play a lot of different sports, there’s more compensatory muscle development, bone growth and that
kind of thing,” Smith said. “If you have a kid who’s playing baseball during baseball season but is also running
track or playing basketball, just think about all the muscle development that goes along with that.”
Even college coaches, who would have reason to prefer more polished high-school prospects, often voice a pref-
erence for multi-sport athletes. UConn football coach Randy Edsall said recently that he likes to watch recruits
play other sports as part of his evaluation process so he can see their full range of skills.
“I love the multi-sport athletes,” Edsall said. “I would rather have guys that are multi-sport because then they
haven’t maxed out. These guys that are playing one sport and doing it year in and year out, over and over and
over again, sometimes they don’t have the upside because they’re tapped out.”
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Glenn Lungarini knows plenty about the pros and cons of early specialization. As a former athlete, coach, athletic director
and principal, he witnessed kids who focused on one sport, as well as those who played many. Now, as executive direc-
tor of the Connecticut Association of Schools, Lungarini encourages young athletes to diversify, even if (in fact, especially
if) they hope to play in college.
“Even that small percentage of kids that has the ability to go on to college, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the posi-
tion in the given sport that you played in high school is where you’re going to play in college,” Lungarini said. “So the
more athleticism you have, the more experiences you have in different scenarios, the more versatile you become as an
athlete.”
Lungarini remembers one recent student, Pomperaug High School’s Jason Hirschauer, who came to him uncertain
whether to join the football team as a senior or concentrate on golf, which he had played since childhood but begun to
sour on. After years of golfing, Hirschauer had begun to question how much he actually enjoyed the game.
“I didn’t really know if I wanted to make golf my job (in college),” Hirschauer recalled recently. “I didn’t know if I wanted
to commit to do that, because I didn’t know if I loved it.”
With Lungarini’s support, Hirschauer decided to try football. He starred as a kicker and punter and was soon recruited to
kick at Sacred Heart, where he remains on the football roster with hopes of earning a scholarship soon.
Now, Hirschauer has some simple advice for teenage athletes seeking to continue their careers past high school.
“Make as many varsity teams as you can,” he said. “If I put all my eggs in my golf basket and realized that wasn’t what I
really wanted, you’re kind of screwed because you don’t have any other options.”
Like many kids, Manchester’s Aidan Puffer dabbled in numerous sports when he was young. He learned gymnastics and
archery, took taekwondo lessons and played soccer and baseball. Then, at age 10, he ran his first 5K race. After an im-
pressive finish, he signed up for another. Then another. Then he joined a club team. Soon, he was running year-round,
setting world records for his age group while letting all other sports fall away.
When Puffer arrived at Manchester High this past fall, there was little question what his sports schedule would look like:
He would run cross country in the fall, indoor track in the winter and outdoor track in the spring.
″(I wanted) to see how could I compete with putting all my effort into one sport,” Puffer said recently. “It’s just a level of
competitiveness. If you’re not as competitive and are doing other sports and it’s fun, then why not do (that). But if
you’re doing it to be competitive and you want to be competitive at one sport, just doing that one sport, you get to put
all your effort into it.”
Aidan’s father Kyle Puffer says (and many experts agree) that under the right circumstances, with the right kid, early
specialization can make sense.
“It depends on who’s driving it,” Kyle Puffer said. “I wouldn’t force a kid to (play) one sport, but I also wouldn’t stand in
the way. If your kid is very focused and passionate and really loves what they’re doing, you want to support them.”
Kyle Puffer, whose two other children play multiple sports, said he and his wife Martha makes sure not to push Aidan too
hard or apply too much pressure to land a college scholarship. Aidan guards against overuse injuries through strength
training and saves his top exertion for the biggest races. Kyle Puffer knows what can happen to kids with overbearing
parents and over-demanding coaches. He says he and Martha have tried to give Aidan a different experience, even as
the young runner has focused on a single sport.
“Even when Aidan was really little, people would bring up, ‘scholarships, scholarships,’” Kyle Puffer said. “And we were
just trying not to say anything about that because we want to make sure he’s doing it because he enjoys it and not be-
cause of expectations for scholarships and things like that.”
Aidan Puffer says his goal is to compete for national titles throughout his high-school career. He says he enjoys running
as much as ever and doesn’t feel pressure from his parents or coaches to do anything he doesn’t want to.
“It’s been my decision,” he said.
Despite the risks, early specialization remains popular among parents and kids dreaming of college scholarships. Neeru
Jayanthi, an expert in youth sports health at Emory University, said about a third of young athletes fall into the “high
specialization” category, another third are “moderately specializing” and the final third are truly diversifying what sports
they play.
As for the proper course, Jayanthi said that varies by sport and by kid. For example, Jayanthi said, athletes in a sport
such as gymnastics, in which peak performance arrives at a relatively young age, might have more reason to specialize
early than, say, football players, for whom pure athleticism is often most important. Meanwhile, kids with a genuine
chance at playing a professional sport have greater cause to specialize than those whose athletic careers won’t likely
reach past high school.
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Though Jayanthi has studied the drawbacks of early specialization, he tries to remain realistic about
the trend. He recommends that most young athletes, particularly in team sports, diversify until age
12 or 14. Beyond then, he said, specializing has become almost inevitable, at least for elite athletes.
“If you get to high school, you can do whatever you want, to me,” Jayanthi said. “The days of three
-sport athletes are probably gone.”
Ultimately, Jayanthi said, the trend toward early specialization won’t reverse itself until national gov-
erning bodies and coaches create development models that offer another path toward elite-level
success.
″(Parents) know it’s not the best thing for their child, but how are you going to change that?”
Jayanthi said. “If you want to play college tennis, you have to be at these tennis academies 15
hours a week, and you can’t take three months off or you’re going to fall behind. So even if
(parents) know it, they don’t know how to change it.”
Boyle said fighting against the specialization trend can feel like “running into the wind.” As long as
parents dream of their kids landing (highly limited) college scholarships, coaches seek customers for
their travel teams and sports facilities and national organizations decline to build policy around en-
couraging multi-sport participation, specialization figures to continue.
Still, Boyle continues to host camps, speak at conferences and share a simple message with any
parent and young athlete who will listen: When it comes to youth sports, there’s no need to pick
one.
Answer to Trivia Question
(from page 2)
John Burridge had a career that spanned almost thirty years, playing with 29 differ-
ent clubs. Despite being a journeyman, he has the record as the oldest football
player to make an appearance in the English Premier League at an age of 43 years,
5 months, and 11 days.
2375 Elmwood Avenue
in Kenmore
6Futsal - Is This Simple Game the Missing Link in American
Youth Soccer?
from Stack Coaches and Trainers
Johan Cruyff, the Dutch forward widely regarded as one of the greatest soccer players in history, once said,
"I trained about 3-4 hours a week at Ajax when I was little. But I played 3-4 hours every day on the street.
So where do you think I learned to play football?"
The answer is quite obvious. Unstructured play is arguably one of the best activities children can participate
in. Give them space and let them create their own reality, or soccer field, or whatever. Michael Beale, former
Chelsea youth coach, once said, "Give kids a ball, (and) they'll figure the rest out." In an era of organized
playdates and parental fear of children skinning their knees, how do we get kids to simply play?
Street soccer is simply picking up a ball, finding some space, and playing. There is no coaching and no par-
ents, just kids creating a love affair with the soccer ball. There are no overzealous coaches screaming what
to do at every turn and essentially joysticking their players for 60 minutes. Young players need to learn to
play with freedom, flair and creativity, which is what Brazil, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany
have successfully done. They've created players of such unquestionable skill and IQ that they have largely
dominated at producing the best players in the world. All these federations revamped their programs to get
better after hitting various low points internationally. Yet ironically, the U.S. men's national team doesn't
even qualify for a World Cup in a region where they should be a shoo-in, and yet little has changed.
It seems that American children won't be spending 3-4 hours a day playing soccer in the streets anytime
soon. But how can we start making up the gap? I believe the introduction of futsal could be exactly what
American youth soccer needs.
Players like Messi, Xavi, Neymar and Pele were raised on futsal. Cristiano Ronaldo said he felt "free" whenev-
er he played the game. While at Everton, Roberto Martinez mandated futsal into the curriculum. So, what
exactly is it?
Futsal is an indoor version of soccer that sees five players per side (including goalies) and utilizes a smaller,
heavier ball. The game is played on a hard, indoor surface which is roughly one-ninth the size of a regulation
outdoor pitch. There are boundary lines like usual soccer. With the limited space and the less bouncy ball,
technical and tactical play becomes crucial. With the spacing, this isn't about running, its about playing. Play-
ers have to play under pressure and manipulate the ball to be successful. This requires spatial awareness,
creativity, checking shoulders and making lightning-quick decisions. These are seemingly the qualities of the
best players of the current generation of stars, and many American players are lacking in these areas.
A study by the English FA determined that players get up to five times the amount of touches in futsal or
small-sided games than they do in 11-a-side. But more importantly, almost all of these touches are under
pressure. This makes them critical touches, and the player has to have some tactical application to what they
are doing. These are not repeated touches with a parent-paid coach in a park, repeating moves over and
over with no pressure. These touches and passes have consequence, but consequence in an environment
that is encouraging positive decision-making and creative soccer. Watch the Brazilians play and you see the
creativity, craft, and cleverness that frankly alludes the American player.
Is it tactically perfect soccer? Are the best decisions being made all the time? No, but that's not the point.
That stuff can be addressed at a different time and place. This is the time for free play with no structure and
little adult oversight. This is a place for players to express themselves and, as Cristiano said, be "free".
Watching American soccer, the art of the 1-v-1 battle seems totally lost. For decades, many of the sport's
greatest players have been capable of unlocking games with individual brilliance. Sometimes, games demand
this! If you watch enough Academy games, there are some very good players being produced in America,
and there is some quality soccer being played, but it seems to be a bit robotic. A lot of us are looking for that
player who inspires us and does something that makes us say, "Whoa, did you see that?" It's important to
encourage this part of a player's game, especially at a young age. Not every player is going to have a knack
for creativity, but when you raise them in an environment that suffocates creativity instead of fostering it,
you end up with few players capable of individual brilliance.
Eric Wynalda quipped on Fox Sports one time that if Messi had been born in America, we would have totally
screwed him up. Whether that's true or not is up for debate, but when you look at Futsal and what it can
provide for young players—the creative atmosphere, the touches under pressure, the need for quick decision
-making and sharp technical skills—perhaps this is the missing link for American players.
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Our men and women's national teams have largely relied on athleticism for success. While the women
have been far more successful on the national stage than our men to this point, their inability to play in
tight areas has allowed the rest of the world to catch up. Our U-17 women's team just finished last in
their group at the 2018 U-17 World Cup. The U-20's just lost to France 2-1. When you watch France,
Japan, England and the like compete, they have a technical savvy that is undeniable.
Adding futsal to a regular youth soccer curriculum can only be beneficial. With teams often training
three to four days a week, the idea that futsal can be the technical training day with more touches,
more passes attempted, and more 1-v-1's can help make players better. This naturally won't happen
overnight. It will take time, but time and patience is needed to develop players. In Sweden, they don't
cut hockey players until they are 17 or 18 to allow for growth and development. And there is no other
country who produces more professional hockey players per capita than Sweden.
Now, let's go back to recent international results. France finished 2nd in the 2016 Euros and won the
2018 World Cup. Belgium finished 3rd in the 2018 World Cup and in the quarterfinals in 2014. Germany
won the World Cup in 2014. Spain won the 2008 and 2012 Euros and 2010 World Cup. These countries
are doing something right. Small-sided games and futsal are very prevalent with all these programs, as
they are in the youth systems of elite clubs like FC Barcelona. With futsal, there must be no coaching.
This is a horrifically foreign concept to Americans, as there are no greater experts on soccer than every
parent on the sideline. We also need to stop obsessing with formations and systems. The kids need to
learn how to play before playing in a rigid structured system.
Let the kids play. Let them be creative. Let them succeed. Let them fail. Let them achieve the creative
genius we so desperately need here. Give them a ball and some direction and you might be shocked at
what will happen. While the kids of America won't likely be playing "street soccer" for hours a day like
the children in the favelas of Brazil, we can began integrating futsal on a more consistent basis.
Contacting Us
Web Site — www.kenmoresoccer.com
E-Mail — doc@kenmoresoccer.com
Fax — 716-837-0668
Telephone — 716-837-1627
Mail — 57 Greenleaf Avenue, Tonawanda, New York 14150
Kenmore Soccer Player Competes in Empire State Winter Games
Congratulations to Ari Ninos of the Kenmore United 17 and Under team, for his
efforts at the recent 2019 Empire State Winter Games.
Ari competed in ski racing events, with his work highlighted by a 16th place finish
out of 100 competitors in the slalom event. The best news is that he came through
unscathed, and was back on the pitch doing his other favorite sport just days later.
8'Joysticking' Is Killing Youth Sports
from “Greatness Within”
Micromanagement is often cited as the worst trait a manager can have when working with their employ-
ees. This is no different with coaching youth sports.
There may be no sport where this issue is more prevalent than youth soccer. At the pro level, American
soccer players are no less athletic than their European and South American counterparts, but they often
lack the requisite soccer IQ. This issue can be traced back to the American youth soccer experience. At
the youth levels, coaching teeters on diabolical, as coaches are often telling players what to do and how
to do it at all times. This phenomenon is known as "Joysticking."
What is joysticking? Think of Pac-Man—without you at the helm, that poor little guy would just run into a
corner and get eaten by Pinky. However, with someone manning the joystick, they can make Pac-Man's
choices to avoid certain death and eat all those yummy pellets. While this is all well and good for a video
game; it isn't for youth soccer players.
Joysticking is when coaches try to play the game for their athletes, dictating all their decisions for them
from the sideline. "Pass it to David!" "Dribble inside!" "Double team! Double team!" These are the types of
instruction you hear from a joysticking coach.
Joysticking is a byproduct of the win-now mentality that's become extremely prevalent in youth soccer.
We live in a world of instant gratification. Parents and coaches want their kids to win every single game
that they're involved in. At the youngest levels of the sport, this leads to a disastrous product on the field.
Kids are turning to their coaches for what to do instead of their own brains or teammates. Dynamic, fluid
sports require quick decision-making. The only way to hone those decision-making skills is to practice
making decisions under pressure. When you're never given that opportunity, you become a robotic, un-
creative player incapable of making decision on your own.
Parents often equate constant information as coaching. You can sit on a touchline at many youth soccer
games and hear the coach constantly telling their players exactly what to do. Even if this team wins the
game, did they really win the game? Or did the coach win the game? Far too often, coaches are judged
by parents based on wins and losses. The buzzword thrown around by coaches and clubs is
"development," but how many of them can actually define it? True development doesn't happen over-
night, and consistently telling kids what to do is simply an abject failure. Joysticking may lead to more
wins now, but when the players who are a product of it run into players with better creativity and decision
-making skills down the line, they're going to be in big trouble.
Kids need the freedom to play, develop their soccer personalities, and learn to love the game. This will
allow them to solve the problem and develop a soccer algorithm for future success. Soccer is a sport that
requires vision and an ability to read the game. Players need to experiment and figure out what does and
does not work. They need to make mistakes on their own. And therein lies the problem for many joystick-
ing youth coaches.
Since a mistake may cost their team a goal or a game, they feel they absolutely must take over and tell
the player what to do. So instead of creating a teachable moment where the player is allowed to make a
mistake on their own and learn from it, that golden opportunity is avoided. Goal prevented, game won
and parents happy. But with this methodology, what's been learned by the player? Frankly, very little.
Parents often glorify the joysticking youth coach simply because they, too, care about winning above all
else. They send their kids to the teams or clubs that win. We all like winning, but how does this team or
club earn victories?
I believe youth soccer coaches need to get into the mindset of asking more than they're telling. What did
the player see there? What were they trying to do? Asked without criticism, these questions can help
coaches gain valuable insight into what their players are thinking.
This isn't to say coaches should be quite like a church mouse on the sidelines. But what type of cues are
most useful for development? From a simple aesthetic standpoint, a youth sports coach sees more than
their players because of their height and their positioning. The players literally do not see the field from
the same perspective as the coach. Using cues or terms that take this into account can help create more
intelligent soccer players. I'm a big fan of the term "check your shoulder." I think this idea should be a
cornerstone of youth development. Checking your shoulder helps a player get their eyes off the ball at
their feet and see a huge swath of the field which includes areas in front of, next to and behind them.
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If the player is only staring down at their own feet, their potential decisions are really quite limited due
to them not knowing where they are on the field and where teammates and opponents are in relation
to themselves. But a cue like "check your shoulder" actually encourages the player to make a choice by
revealing to them the options they have at their disposal. It will encourage the player to make a choice,
and often, this choice will come from the skillset a player has. Some may pass, some may dribble, but
they will have made a choice. And they can learn from that. Decision-making will be different from play-
er to player, and it's critical for the coach to be able to understand how a player's skillset may affect
their own decisions.
This is how Europe continues to produce the best players in the world. But the problem is it takes time.
Parents need to be more patient. Coaches are teachers, and teaching takes time. Students don't get
literary analysis the first time they try it, so how are they going to be great soccer players the first time
they touch a ball?
I watched my daughter's first final recently and she was so excited. They were playing a younger team
that was very good. The opposing coach never sat once and was constantly telling his players what to
do. In the span of two full games that day (100 minutes of action), never once did I hear "get your
head up" or "what do you see?" It was all directives about what he knew needed to be done. Perhaps
the best questions parents can ask their child after a game start with "Why..." Why did you pass there?
Why did you dribble there? The challenge here is seeing if the answer is anything beyond "because
coach told me to." When a coach tells the players what to do, he or she has effectively removed the
stress of decisions off the players, and taken it on him or herself. No wonder college coaches are saying
this generation of athletes have issues with responsibility.
"Check your shoulder" and "get your head up" should be key comments from youth soccer coaches.
There is great footage of Frank Lampard as within a 15- to 20-second span, he checks his shoulders 12-
13 times. It's an effort to get a snapshot of what's around and behind him. This will help players see
their opponents, their own teammates and space; all of which are a part of informed decision-making
on and off the ball. Coaches need to encourage good choices, but the X-factor here is whether or not
the coach actually knows what a good choice is. One of the biggest problems is when a coach tells a
player to turn into pressure, or to shoot when they neither have the angle nor clear possession of the
ball. This is wrong. A player turning into pressure, trying to bulldoze his way through is success? No. It
may work semi-consistently now, but once they are older, that player will lose possession every time.
A good coach can affect a game, but a great coach can change a life. Joysticking coaches may win
more games in the short term, but at what cost? Your kid wants to win games, but making their own
decisions and discovering the keys to success in the sport are critical for their development both in
sport and in life. Decisions should belong to the player, not to the coach or parents.
Fund Raising
The Kenmore Soccer Club is registered with the New York State Attorney General to
conduct fund-raising, as is required by law, but each activity needs to be approved
by our Board of Directors.
If your team wants to conduct any fund-raising, just e-mail us at
doc@kenmoresoccer.com with the details of what you propose, and the
eventual use of the funds raised. We will get back to you promptly.
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