Get up and start a pickup game

Thumbnail image for iStock_000007224344XSmall.jpgBy Paul Giovanopoulos, www.socceramerica.com

Are our kids playing enough pickup ball?

There have been countless articles written about this. While we all agree that this is not happening enough, many of us just sit back and hope it starts to happen somehow on its own.

We hope that somehow they start playing at the schoolyard at recess, or they come home to text their friends to go to the local park and play.

Today's suburbia logistics probably would not allow for this. So maybe we can organize pickup soccer. I know many of you just started laughing as it goes against the philosophy of the pickup game. However there is merit to this.

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