DS 10 Y6 has been with his football club for 3 years. Not boasting at all but he has been the top goal scorer for the last two as he is the striker. At the end of last season the two managers of the same year group teams decided that it made sense to merge the two teams as it would be difficult to find more players for each team. The problem with this is that we would have 15 players so some would be left out each week or subbed, although we were assured that they would be rotated.
I still had reservations but ultimately it’s his game and since around 80% of the team go to the same school he wanted to stay.
We are now a couple of months in and it is becoming clear that the head coach is showing favouritism towards his original teams players when allocating game time/subs etc despite saying this wouldn’t happen. The real concern is that when ds plays if he fails to score he is taken off. This is beginning to really affect his confidence, and his play since he’s worrying about not scoring 😔
So what would you do? My choice would be to move him but l know he will say he wants to stay but l also know if this continues his self esteem will start to deteriorate quickly!
Sometimes l really hate football 😡 He plays other sports and we just don’t get the same egotistical coaches who are all about the winning at all cost!