Why Should My Child Play Youth Soccer?
Youth soccer is more than just Saturday morning games and evening practices. It’s more than halftime snacks and shin guards. How can participating in a youth soccer league benefit your child? There are many ways! It’s easy to sum them up under competition, cultivation, and connection.
Competition
Healthy competition is a great way to motivate children to increase their skills and athleticism. Pursuing a goal (a soccer goal and an accomplishment goal) helps children push themselves to become the best they can be as a young athlete. Practicing their sport under the supervision of a coach helps develop their skills in both soccer and other physical activities. At soccer practices and games, children are constantly learning new things about the game, themselves, and others that keep them engaged and excited to participate.
Cultivation
Participating in a youth sports league, particularly a league like Victory Sports, helps cultivate your child’s character, values, and faith. Victory Sports develops children as athletes through instruction and competition while forming them as disciples through the Catholic moral tradition and the devotional life. Each week they will be taught a particular virtue, a saint who exemplifies that virtue, and they’ll cultivate that virtue in practices and games through drills and competition. Kids will learn to compete and grow in the virtues of God, which translates to all stages of life.
Connection
Youth soccer leagues are where connections are made. Children connect with new friends and teammates, and parents connect with other parents and form lasting relationships with other families, both within and across parish boundaries. In this way, Victory Sports builds up the mystical Body of Christ and strengthens the local Church. There is no denying the unity that is found in the fun and competition that come along with Victory Sports.
