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Published 17:13 2 Mar 2018 GMT
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"I was once that 15 year old who played everything," he said. "I was gone every night of the week training or playing games. I never needed a ‘recovery day’. I’m also a professional athlete who very very rarely has or needs ‘recovery days’. They should be allowed to play both, end of. They are 15. "The point is young lads shouldn’t be made to choose until it’s necessary - ie. when there is a pro contract in front of them."But, even without that pro contract, children are being told that it's one or the other. If short-term thinking comes into it, if winning at underage level is the goal of some coaches, then it's the kids who lose out and it doesn't really help the club any better in the long run.
"The biggest point people are missing here is that the underage coach's job is not to win at all costs but it’s to develop the kids. By making them choose sports they are hindering the development of those kids. "When I played for Shamrock Rovers u14 we got relegated to the second division in the DDSL. From that side there were 4 players who played for Shamrock Rovers first team. To me that’s success. I might be wrong though "Would you rather be part of a club that won an u15 LOI title and produced no professional footballers or be a coach whose team finishes bottom of that league but produced 5/6 professional footballers?"https://twitter.com/padraigamond21/status/969523441794797569 The idea that player welfare is at the centre of this thinking is almost insulting. If you're saying a 14 or 15-year-old has a better chance of 'making it' in professional football by sitting on his arse three days a week instead of training more, instead of playing GAA or whatever other sport, get a hold of yourself. And, if anything, it's just funny now that, in the current culture and all the railing against sedentary lifestyles, it's actually coaches who are telling kids to be less active. Because it's for their benefit after all. https://twitter.com/padraigamond21/status/969323492880605186
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