Although it is massively important that the soccer parents attend their children’s soccer games and soccer training in order to offer support and encouragement, it can become very annoying when they start getting overly helpful. This can become very disruptive and contribute to upsetting the well laid out plans that you have worked hard on refining. When a soccer parent witnesses another parent giving instructions to players it is natural for some of them to start doing the same. This can severely disrupt the children’s concentration while driving them crazy in the process.

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Are you a soccer parent that encourages their child and their teammates during a soccer game no matter how they may be playing or what the score is?  Or are you a soccer parent that screams and yells at not only your own child but everyone else including players, officials and soccer coaches?  During my experience coaching youth soccer, I have found the majority of the parents to be encouraging and supportive of both the players and myself as coach.  However, I have had a few parents whose behavior could probably be described as being “out of control”!

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It can be very frustrating and embarrassing at times watching a sport and you have no idea what is going on because you do not understand the rules.  If you are just starting out coaching youth soccer or if you are a new soccer parents, you need to understand the basic soccer rules. At the end of this article, I provide a link where you can obtain further information on the official soccer rules, however I only intend to cover the very basic soccer rules here to give you a bit of an idea of what the game is about.  As a soccer coach, knowledge of the rules is essential, as soccer parents, knowledge of the rules will increase the enjoyment of watching your child play.

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