Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.

Hey, everybody, as promised, here is the last installment of our little grassroots series a Q&A style episode

with two men I'm very grateful for Jim Hart and Mike Eidland Jim is the founder of the

high school Champions League and a 40-year veteran of high school soccer elementary

school PE and club soccer in the Tampa area Mike is the women's soccer coach at

SUNY Brockport in upstate New York and a rec soccer coach

and coaching educator.

Each of them recorded an episode with me about rec soccer and how kids approach it.

Today we're going to respond to questions and comments from people who listen to those episodes,

try to tie up any loose ends.

I'm really looking forward to it.

Thanks to both of you for being here.

How are you? Doing great. Bells. How are you? I'm well. I'm well. Thanks. Thanks again. Mike, how are you?

I'm great, Pels. It's going to be fun. Great. So let's start with a question submitted by voicemail. These are our favorites. Let's just go ahead.

Hi, my name's Brendan, and I'm located in Denver. The question that I have centers around the development of kids, where my daughter, she is four and definitely is one of the smaller

people on her team of three to five year olds.

So one, how do you help with that development when, you know, certain kids are much

physically further along than they are?

And also just, you know, emotionally, just making sure that she enjoys it and stays positive

when, you know, they're just much bigger kids

and she's a little further behind on that. So I look forward to your thoughts. Great podcast.

And it gave me good food for thought for both my daughter and my 11th month old son. Thank you.

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