Sep 11
18
U8 Soccer Means No More Coed
For most youth soccer teams U8 soccer means everything from playing on a ‘real’ team with keeping scores to no longer playing on the same team as opposite gender. Now that is not true for every league but I think for most it is and the question I had was why? What happens between U6 soccer and U8 soccer where kids are no longer on the same soccer pitch. The kids are still roughly the same size and speed, and the girls can hold there on. The other argument which is fair is they have to be split up at some point.
I tried to find the answer. Unfortunately most of the responses revolve around all the liberal ‘empowerment’ topics. This old fish thinks it has more to do not in REC soccer but travel. At the more competitive levels there is a real need to break out boys and girls in u8 soccer. I think more than anything it just is spill over into the rec leagues.