Help with school project. physical education

[jocke01]

Hi

I'm doing a short film about organised teamsports and effect on players&family.
It's also about lot's and hard training on young teams to make star players later on (could find what to call it in english) and how that affects players and their life.

The reason i need some help is because I'm going to check if it's diffirent in diffirent countries. So any players or former players in team sports or trainers and parents of players could really help if you answers all or some of these questions:

trainer, parent or player?

Wich sport/s?
Wich country?

If player
Was their focused training and/or players being kicked of or not getting to play on the team for not making the expected results?

If so
in what age?
Did the training affect your homework social life?
Where you forced to quit let's say basketball to focus on fotball or any other combination?
Did parents/family encourage you?
Are you still playing?

If no
how did that affect you?


If parent
Was their focused training and/or players being kicked of or not getting to play on the team for not making the expected results in you son/daughters team?

If yes
How did that affect the family with driving to practice and games?Did it reuquire alot of parent involving?
Was it diffirent from when you where younger and played in teams?
Are they still playing

If trainer
Was their focused training and/or players being kicked of or not getting to play on the team for not making the expected results?

If yes
Why?
Did it make results?
How was the mood at practice and games?
Parents getting involved or mad about to much training or players getting kicked of the team?
Was it diffirent from when you where younger and played in teams?
Are you still a trainer?




Some questions may be gramatic wrong and other things. I guess you will ahve to excuse my english I'm from sweden after all.
Any other thoughts on the subject are also useful.

Thanks in advance.

[salamut2202]

I've done sports until this year (which is the HSC). I played soccer from 4 until I was eight, than I played rugby league until I was twelve in which i played hocky until I was 16. Oh, I live in Australia

The sport was a recreational thing - If you were a bad player you wouldn't be kicked off the team. Heck , even at upper levels it was more about people having fun and relaxing than anything too competative. There was some training involved but no kid did if they genuinely didn't want to. That said, almost everyone played a team sport until year 12. It's an overall a good community thing that people around here enjoy a lot. It effected me very positively and I thank the experience.

[Hyper Kinetic]

I am a player of hockey (grass/turf, since age ~17), and I am a former player of Cricket (10-15), Soccer/Football (6-18), Touch Football (a few random seasons since 20), OzTag (similar to Touch Football), Indoor Soccer/Football (12~16) and basically any sport where anyone wanted a player to fill in (indoor beach volleyball being the main one in recent times).

There was, in all sports, focused training to certain aspects on any given night. Some nights it would be passing, others might be defending. Most people went regardless of whether they did or did not want to (and had fun whilst doing it, I might add), though by the time you hit 15 or 16, it became obvious who the less interested people were.
As with Paalam, it was a recreational thing. If you were a bad player, you weren't kicked off the team (though, particularly with Soccer/Football, most clubs had many teams and so there was a grading system and you were generally put in a grade that suited your capabilities). Once you started getting in to the 12+ age bracket, the grading systems kicked in harder. There was a much more noticeable difference as you get older too and, once you hit open divisions (i.e. All Ages), you can really see major differences between the grades and different places.
For example, when I played Hockey in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, I thought our third grade team were pretty awesome. They were comprised of some really good players that worked well together and completely dominated 3 or 4 seasons. Our 5th grade team also were a dominant force. There were 6 or 7 grades in Newcastle at the time. I moved to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, where there are only 2 grades... and the 3rd grade from Newcastle would probably struggle to get to the finals in 1st grade here. The 5th grade from Newcastle would probably make the finals but may not get to the grand final. It's just that different a game here.
Still... both grades here are competitive, but there is a friendly spirit to most games.

Did it affect my homework and social life? Yeah, probably. I met people I otherwise would not have. I did not necessarily hang out with them outside of games, but we were generally pretty friendly when we were all together.
Interestingly, enemies at school were much better at games and social events relating to the sport. I myself had a few massive grudges against people on my soccer team (and vice versa), but when it came to games you would never have known.
Homework was done less on training nights, though I still managed to finish it all... until late high school anyway (and that was not necessarily sports fault either).

The only people who were really forced to quit anything were those who wanted to focus on one sport or those who were not financial enough to play multiple sports. People that wanted to focus on one sport seemed to be those that were exceptionally good at a particular sport.

To begin with, the idea was not mine to do anything. Parents asked, and I went for it.
I quit cricket when I disliked it. I sort of tried to quit soccer at 15, but was encouraged to continue by my parents (and enjoyed most moments after that, I might add). I switched to hockey to be with more of my high school friends.

I did not play at an elite level, though I generally was in the higher grades, and it was all community oriented.
Good times.

[jocke01]

Thank you both for your answers