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The parent support to the children in sport

Published on July 21, 2014 in Calcio, Giovani, Stress and Young and Football. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, Calcio, genitori.

A few days ago I get a call from a parent asking me how to convince his son to quit football, because, according to him, it does not seem the sport for him. He is mocked for his poor skills and begin to lose confidence in himself. The child is 10 years old, he loves football and have fun, but obviously not enough, and unfortunately the world of youth football, in many situations, doesn’t excel in understanding and space for everyone.

I have advised the parent to change perspective, to look at what was happening as a formative episode in which his task had to be to help your child to think about his sporting and emotional needs. I advised him to listen to him, but mostly I asked him to look through the eyes of those who believe in him and in his ability. the indispensable prerequisite for the child to believe in themselves and in their abilities, is that parents believe in him.

The episode gave me the opportunity to reflect on the difficulties that many parents face in supporting their children in sport and, for this reason, I find it useful to share some basic rules:

Listen: Put aside for a moment their ideas and listen what they have to say
Teach to tolerate frustration
Leave space for personal ideas of his own son about persons and situations
Understand their expectations regarding the child
Encourage to cope with the difficulties
Reward the new learning
First support the commitment, second the results
Help them to understand that the improvement and commitment go hand in hand
Talk about sport accepting its requirements
Respect and support their emotional needs

The little football player probably in September will be a littlle water polo player (because that is what the mother wants). If this choice is not only the desire of a parent, but it will come from an inner development of the child then the his sport track will be positive and his self-esteem will do an important step forward.

(By Daniela Sepio)

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The endless fascination of football

Published on July 15, 2014 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, Calcio, mondiali 2014.

The Football World Cup is concluded and once again it was the most watched show in the world along with the Summer Olympics. The reasons for the success of this sport continue to be always the same. It’s an easy sport to understand that anyone can practice and which is played everywhere, on the beach as in a park, on a street or in any open space or courtyard. It’s played at all ages from 5 years old children as well as adults, scoring just two goals with a shirt, a backpack or a stone, and the space between these two goals immediately becomes the playing field. The other team sports to be played require more technical skills and a minimum of structure as the net for volleyball or hoops in basketball. In football it does not, just that one player have the ball and immediately the game starts . These are the reasons why football has become a universal game, because all the male children have played football and when they are adults all are coaches in the Monday morning discussing with friends. All children have played at least 20-30-40 or maybe more football and this knowledge of the game, they believe make theim competent assessing whether a team has played well or badly. Football in the past 15 years became diffuse also among the girls and in many countries from northern Europe to north America and Japan is really widespread. These are in my opinion the reasons why soccer will continue to fascinate all for many years.

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The youth players’ rights

Published on July 14, 2014 in Allenatori, Calcio, Giovani and Young and Football. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, Calcio, diritti, Scuola.

We are approaching the time when sport clubs began to organize their activities. The football schools program the new year and in September the fields will be filled with children. Statistics say that half of the children chose football. In light of this, it is important to remind all those who work in football schools that children are not little adults and that it is not enough to work with the passion for football, you need a passion for the world of children, you had to know what they think, how they think, what they can do. Especially you had to know how to deal with them. These fundamental principles from the “Charter of children’s rights and the” Charter of the Rights of boys in sport “should always be a reference for anyone involved in football or any other youth sport:

The right to have fun and play
The right to play sports
The right to a healthy environment
The right to be surrounded by people trained and competent
The right to follow adequate training to its rhythms
The right to participate in competitive age-appropriate
The right to practice sports in complete safety
The right to have the right timing of rest
The RIGHT TO NOT TO BE A CHAMPION

“Charter of the Rights of the Child” (New-York Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989)

“Charter of the Rights of boys in sport” (Geneva, commission leisure UN, 1992)

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Obama and Biden jog at White House against children obesity

Published on March 8, 2014 in Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, Biden, correre, jogging, Obama, obesità.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden showed their support for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign by having a brisk jog around the grounds of the White House. A video of their exertions was released in support of the campaign, which aims to tackle the issue of childhood obesity.

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What moms think about themselves vs. What their kids think.

Published on January 19, 2014 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, mamme.

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Are too old the ethic rules?

Published on December 4, 2013 in Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, etica, FIGC, genitori, insulti, Juventus.

At least 10 years ago in a publication of the Italian Football Federation dedicated to football, school and education we wrote .

Whatever my role in the sport , even that of a spectator , I pledge to:

Make each game , no matter the stakes and the importance of the event, a special moment, a kind of celebration
Conform to the rules and the spirit of sport practiced
Respect my opponents like myself
Accept the decisions of the referees and judges sports, knowing that, like me, have the right to error, but they do everything to commit
Avoid aggression in my actions, in my words and in my writings
Do not use tricks nor deceit to gain success
Remain worthy in victory as in defeat
Helping other sports with my presence, my experience and my understanding
Help any athlete injured, whose life is in danger
Really be an ambassador of the sport, helping to enforce around me the principles established here

But now we hear that saying “S… ” is just a word like any other because it is widely used in everyday language and so it is not offensive. It’s clear, the guys who insult the players are not delinquents as those that football has accustomed us to see, and who are not prosecuted. This does not mean that children should be taught the good manners and to behave in public, primarily by parents.

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The five baseball dad commandments

Published on August 2, 2013 in Calcio, Generale, Giovani and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, divertimento, genitori, slate.

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This sign was posted in front of stands at the Little League park in Maryland where my son played a tournament this weekend. If only I had seen it before I wrote about cretinous baseball parents a month ago. The sign is like a Dante’s Inferno for Little League parental sins, perfectly capturing the loutish behavior in order of severity.

The movement to fit every child

Published on July 22, 2013 in Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, Benetton, movimento, Roma, Treviso.

It has been opened in Rome today one playground for children from 0 to 6 years that allows them to move, reach out and try games that are suitable for each children. It’s in fact organized on different themes each of which is adapted to the age of the child. It’s a good news the opening of this thematic park, it means that we are starting to spread the culture of the movement proper to everyone. The importance of the child growth from the very beginning, its sensory-motor development combined with proper nutrition, and the opportunity to integrate with the others: these are the foundations of the new frontier of social responsibility plotted by Laboratory 0246, Association of Social Promotion who was born in Treviso (Italy), from the strong experience within sport and social environments by Verde Sport, a company operating in the sports branch for the Benetton Group, who has decided to focus its attention on children from 0 to 6 years of age, and their families.

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Campo Testaccio in Rome: a bad Italian history

Published on May 21, 2013 in Calcio and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: bambini, Calcio, Campo Testaccio, Roma.

“My mother came to watch the matches of Campo Testaccio in Rome when she was pregnant with me. And to those who asked if he feared to give birth in the stands answered, maybe.” Adriano Verdolini teaches sociology at the University La Sapienza and now is one of the few Romans to be able to describe, also thanks to the stories of parents, who were breathed atmosphere in Campo Testaccio.

This is one of many Italian shame, it’s not the only one because many other cities have examples of this type. But all this takes place in Rome, in a historical district of the city devoid of green spaces and sports facilities. And then is the first stadium where the Roma football team played till the end of the ’30s. In fact, the structure was designed by engineer Silvio Senses, Franco’s father (Chairman of the Roma’s third title), modeled on the English stadiums (especially on the Everton). He had four stands of wood painted with team colors (yellow gold and Pompeian red), which had a capacity of 20,000 spectators and a grass field whose dimensions could be adjusted according to the team’s needs. Testaccio also included the home of the coach, a building on the outside wall which was painted the team colors

Campo Testaccio is a very important piece of history, and not only for the Roma fans. You have to imagine a district formed at the beginning of the 900 when it was built a football stadium where everyone did the crowd to watch Rome and those who do not have the money to pay the ticket watched the match from Monte dei Cocci from which enjoyed an excellent view of the field. In more recent years in this field played the children of the Football School Testaccio but since 2009 this field is abandoned and is a place of rubble due to poor interaction between private and public administration. In fact, the City of Rome had given him permission to build parking lots under the field with a promise to return in a few months at the School Football field, but this has not happened. Now it has formed a committee, # RivoglioCampoTestaccio, to give this green space and sports in the area, because the bureaucracy and legal loopholes cannot continue to block a good of all, because it is no longer enough to be angry and to wait but you have to act on situations that can improve the life of a neighborhood.