Youth soccer club

[Honkv]

Jimmy Hampton. Is getting pushed out OKC?

What does a sporting director do

 

[Gmoney4WW]

What does a sporting director do

Senior management figure often acting as a bridge between coaching staffs and a club's board or ownership. They are typically responsible for player recruitment, transfers, youth development, and team and/or overall strategy.

 

[Honkv]

Senior management figure often acting as a bridge between coaching staffs and a club's board or ownership. They are typically responsible for player recruitment, transfers, youth development, and team and/or overall strategy.

Isn’t that what Eric does?

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Isn’t that what Eric does?

Just giving you a definition of the title and its general responsibilities.

 

[HuffyCane]

What does a sporting director do

 

[lawpoke87]

What does a sporting director do

His job description sounds very similar to that of an ECNL director. One of the things TSC has been missing imo is an experienced soccer “guy” guiding the club. The real question imo is whether Barry will give him the freedom to run the club the way he sees fit. I think it’s a good hire

 

[Soccer7583]

Today is the final day for group play at National playoffs, we (Energy 11g) are 1-1-0. The loss was a tough one to Arlington, we were up 1-0 at half and gave up two quick goals in the span of 5 minutes in the beginning of the second half. This team was in the National finals group in Virginia last year. Today we play Nationals out of Michigan and if we win we have a really good shot of making it out of group play into Wednesday’s final playoff game. Wednesday’s winners determine who goes to Virginia to compete for the National title.

 

[TU_BLA]

Agree he’s not the person to be talking about this issue and it’s clear he’s been manipulated and well compensated by Fox to do so.

That said, he has come pretty close to admitting on camera that he was in a mental health crisis at the time from fatigue. Listeners with experience with the issue have inferred he was having suicidal thoughts. He’s a father, you can’t talk about that stuff or explain yourself if you have kids. He can’t give an interview that results in his kids wondering for the rest of their lives that Daddy might not come home tonight.

It was also after more than 500 games in all competitions with no more than two weeks off since he was 16. It’s been widely reported he had never drank a beer until after he retired and shotgunned one at his first Mexico game in Ohio. He was pretty committed I think. Maybe too much so.

Christian is in the middle of his career, said he was not playing due to injury, then played for his club in a meaningless game a few days later. He has no surgery scheduled. He then tried to negotiate with the coach which games he would play in based on the competition placing management in an impossible situation then disrespected the process by talking about it publicly.

Nerds have mapped out his rest periods vs Landon’s and it doesn’t even come close to comparing.

If he had said I don’t want to risk injury against obviously inferior competition in a now meaningless tournament I would respect that.

Or if he pointed out that in soccer you are inevitably dispossessed, trip, caught from behind on angles etc and he can’t have video tape of him making errors against semi pro players from the Caribbean if he has to re-negotiate his club contract. I would respect that.

Instead he sends his Dad out to take shots at our all time record holder whose name is on a trophy he wouldn’t win if he was playing in MLS this season. Bad look.

If I were Pulisic, I'd just tell Poch, I'm not playing in meaningless CONCACAF games because everytime I play against the regional competition, they intentionally try to injure me. That would be a true statement. Mexico tries to end his career every time they play against him, Costa Rica is a bunch of thugs as we witnessed the other night, and I wouldn't trust Panama either. And while I don't think Canada is out to injure him, they've got some guys with inferiority complexes and big brother syndrome playing against the US and they tend to get aggressively and recklessly physical against us.

 

[TU_BLA]

His job description sounds very similar to that of an ECNL director. One of the things TSC has been missing imo is an experienced soccer “guy” guiding the club. The real question imo is whether Barry will give him the freedom to run the club the way he sees fit. I think it’s a good hire

Essentially a sporting director is in charge of all soccer related items. He should be the say on coaches, he should have some say in team make-up, especially the upper teams, he should be developing an evaluation schedule and measurement for all club players, he should be developing a cohesive style of play plan and a training regimen to reach that goal, he should be helping to determine which tournaments club teams should be playing in that help further that development and not just the low level ones that result in trophies. Hopefully he can do something about the GK training too because TSC has always promised the moon in that area and never really delivered on it consistently.

Problem is too many times, coaches resist (and resent) being told how to train and develop kids, which kids should be playing more and the parents will certainly resent anyone trying to come in who says their kid is a 2nd team player and not a 1st team player at that moment.