Description: mostly music
My 9 year old daughter plays in a rec soccer league. Twice each season the league has “Silent Soccer” weekends, one of which occurred today. Pretty simple, really: at a Silent Soccer game, no adults are supposed to talk – no coaches, no parents. You can clap, and “Woo-hoo,” etc., but no instructions and no calling out players or teams by name.
The idea is that, by giving ALL of the vocal space to the players, they learn how to communicate with each other in game situations, and are not distracted by Dad or Granny on the sidelines telling them to get forward or how great they are. Basically it al-
“LET’S GO [TEAM NAME]!!!!! COME ON [PLAYER NAME], GIVE ‘EM THE RAPINOE!!!!”