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This section is dedicated solely just for PARENTS!

With quick links to relevant topics, resouces, news and events.

Minnesota Youth Soccer thanks all parents that donate so much time and energy to get kids to practices and games across the state to enjoy the game of soccer!

Video Shorts

• Michael Jordan on Success
• Child's first soccer game
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• Relax, it's just a game - Potato Sack
• Relax, it's just a game - Pin the Tail
• Relax, it's just a game - Golf
• Magic Helmet

Recommended Links

• Probability of Competing Beyond High School
• WNT Olympian Hope Solo joins campaign for healthy school meals
  
  U.S. Women’s National Team goalkeeper and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Hope Solo has lent here support to the Healthy School Meals Act of 2010, H.R. 4870. If passed, the bill would help school food service programs serve more fruits, vegetables and healthy, plant-based vegetarian meal options. For more information and to view a copy of her letter to lawmakers and ideas for how you may make a difference visit healthyschoollunches.org/hope_solo.cfm. This effort is being supported by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
  
  

Special Parent Section in Soccer Times!

A new section just for Parents, Space for 'Rents, debuted in the January 2010 issue of Soccer Times as a service to families. Those same articles can be found here. We hope you will find the information to be helpful tools as we strive to raise happy and healthy youth through the sport of soccer. All articles are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

Got a nutrition question? Ask Janelle!

Registered Dietitian, Janelle Melgeorge Anderson, M.Ed, R.D., L.D.
Fairview Southdale Hospital, Edina, Minn.
Call 952-924-1461 or e-mail: jmelgeo1@fairview.org
A service provided by our sponsor Fairview Sports and Orthopedic Medicine (FSOC)

Result oriented in youth soccer is counter-productive for development
From time-to-time, MYSA, in an attempt to service a more diverse population and provide varying opinions regarding soccer and the development of our youth, will provide articles and corresponding translations to our readers. The following article, from the Argentinean newspaper El Clarín (reprinted with permission), illustrates that even in arguably one of the most accomplished soccer nations in the world where Soccer is Life, experts contend that the emphasis on winning alone is detrimental to the development of a player.

El resultado en fútbol infantil atenta contra la formación
De vez en cuando, MYSA, con la intención de servir a una población más variada y de suministrar opiniones diferentes con respecto al fútbol y al desarrollo de nuestra juventud, proporcionará artículos y traducciones diversas a nuestros lectores. El siguiente artículo, desde el periódico argentino El Clarín (reimpreso con el permiso), muestra que aún en uno de los, sin discusión, países más completos en fútbol, en donde Fútbol es Vida, los expertos sostienen que enfatizar solamente en ganar es perjudicial al desarrollo de un jugador.

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