Thanks to drill hours and pressure to perform, we have a lot of world champions in the under-12 categories. For example, the Italians cannot match us in football. But we will not meet Italian adults on the field.
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Of course, we all rejoiced a lot when “our boys” brought bronze medals from the hockey championship. After ten long years of waiting! Guys, thank you! But let’s say it soberly and honestly today, with a week’s gap and a cold head: It was a coincidence.
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After all, the only great team in Finland was the United States. Hockey misery is even better evidenced by other statistics – we have not won a medal at the Junior World Championships for 17 years. But it’s not just hockey. The Sokol nation has been failing in almost no sport in recent years. So if we omit that we have a world champion in duckling, five-in-a-row or balls.
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What’s going on? We ruined the sport for the children. We mean all of us – parents, coaches, clubs and the state with its perverted rules of sport financing. Even the youngest children do not play sports for fun, but mainly to gain goals, points or seconds. The most important thing is to succeed and win. Defeat means humiliation, shame, tears. Every freshman who is a dad, mom or coach knows this very well.
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Yes, thanks to early specialization, drill hours and pressure to perform, we have a lot of world champions in the under-12 categories in various sports. Even Italians, four-time world champions, can’t compare with us in football, for example. It’s a pity that we can’t compete with them in adult football, because we haven’t even been able to qualify for the World Cup four times in a row.
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In other countries, they let students cuddle with a balloon or a puck to enjoy a successful loop while we yell at them. Throw it away, kick it, don’t risk it! The British daily Guardian recently described that this system does not work and that burnt and destroyed children with lots of cups on the shelf in their room definitely leave the sport at a junior age.
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In his analysis, he described how it is possible that Norway, which is five million, so clearly dominates in winning medals at the last Winter Olympics, and why countries with bottomless talent hatcheries such as the USA, China and Russia are not enough for it.
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And he found that it’s not just the country’s climate, wealth or the fact that an incredible 90 percent of children in Norway play sports. The main difference is elsewhere – Norwegians have banned competitions in all sports for children under 13. There is no emphasis on competitiveness, scores, no points, goals or seconds. Children play sports for fun. And they learn the sport of falling in love.
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Of course, even Czech coaches know very well that young children do not need specialization, but the complete opposite – the greatest possible versatility. But they are under pressure either from ambitious parents who want to have a small world champion at home, or from their clubs, which receive state subsidies not only per capita, but also according to the results in competitions.
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The Coaches at School initiative seeks to change this. Specialists from clubs go to primary school to help with physical education classes. They try to stir up and inspire “mule” for sports, as they humorously call not very gifted children. We know from many examples that children need to be able to climb, climb, somersault, throw, jump or wash in order to grow into future successful athletes.
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Such a Roman Šebrle, the Olympic decathlon winner who held the world record for eleven years, did not start the athletics all-around until he was 19 years old. Until then, he was involved in football. Miroslava Knapková, a later world champion and Olympic skiff winner, also started rowing at the same age. As a child, she did cross-country skiing and athletics.
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If trophies from big tournaments are to decorate rooms in the Czech Republic other than just children’s rooms, we need to change our approach.
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