Well now the boys will try to play with even more intensity to impress her. Guess people will see a 8 year old doing bicycle kicks at the academy. Win win for both the boys and girls.
As a guy whose team lost 33-1 or something (forgot the exact scoreline) in a match I played as a CB with the girl I like in the audience… how can I delete someone else’s comment?
Up until a certain age it really doesn’t matter if the boys and girls are playing together, so this is a good thing to do. She’s talented enough if they decided this so this will be good for her development. A lot of people have played in teams with girls when they were young kids, who cares.
I call BS here; go read the first chapter of the book Outliers. Early years, physical development matters a LOT. Studies showed pro-athelete’s birthdays are biased heavily towards the beginning of the year. The idea being that at age 4.75 say you have an extra .75 years of physical development over peers born later in the year. This manifests in you seeing more of the play as you’ll be physically dominant. This compounds into more practice, eventually leading to being better (on average), so playing more, so getting better, so getting picked for development teams, so getting better and on & on.
Something else the book argues is that opportunities were very important, and you can also think that it was the opportunities given to those who had more physical development at the earliest stage increased their likelihood to make it. This is sort of like her getting selected for the special team outside the odds.
Something else the book argues is that opportunities were very important, and you can also think that it was the opportunities given to those who had more physical development at the earliest stage increased their likelihood to make it.
Absolutely, I even reference this.
This is sort of like her getting selected for the special team outside the odds.
Yep. She’s the Outlier - geddit!?
I feel like this was definitely pretty normal growing up playing club football up until the age of like 10? Same as with tennis and other sports I played.