OT: Association Football

[Poupou Escobar]

saddest thing I saw the other day at the local park (where they have regular private sessions coaching middle class kids) was a kid getting one on one lessons from a soccer coach while his dad sat on the sidelines taking picture on his phone

When I was a young bloke I worked with an Irish labourer who had played soccer at a fairly high level back in Ireland (where they are fairly shithouse). He lived in the Eastern suburbs, back when labourers could afford to live there, and he started doing private coaching for rich kids around the area. He earned so much he ended up quitting his day job.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

My little fella played Auskick and soccer last year and the Auskick kids were a lot more athletic.

Further to this, one of the boys in my son's soccer team was a big, strong merkin, and very good on the ball. He had come from Scotland, and his mum told my wife that kid's soccer was a lot rougher over there.