Playing for the Long Run

“Read this book! If you are a parent, a teacher, a coach or a prospective coach of youth sports. Steve Locker has wide and varied experiences that inform this useful volume of short essay-like chapters. He has been a professional soccer player, a head coach of major collegiate soccer programs at Harvard and University of Rochester (among others), a youth sports coach, the founder of the Locker Soccer Academy, and perhaps most importantly, a parent who wants the best for his two children.”
As explained and noted in this book “The sad result is that 75% of all kids leave all sports by the age of thirteen. As Locker rightly concludes, the biggest challenge facing our culture regarding recreational sports is the education of parents and parent coaches”
-Professor David E. Fernie (Accredited in Childhood Development at
The Ohio State University)

This book focuses on all insights of everything from the value of skill development, to the right age and ways to begin youth sports, to the lessons learned from both winning and losing, to good sportsmanship among both children and parents.