{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Chasing the Game - Youth Soccer in America","title":"The Long Game. How Do You Keep Kids Loving Soccer?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1427,"description":"The Long Game. How Do You Keep Kids Loving Soccer?\nHow do you keep kids loving soccer when the game keeps asking them to carry more?\nThis final episode of our Summer Best Of series steps back from rankings, pathways, costs, and development models to ask a bigger question. After a year of conversations, what actually matters when the final whistle blows on a child’s youth soccer journey?\nLiron Unreich and Matt Tartaglia revisit some of the voices that shaped the first season, including Dr. Jonathan Jenkins, Don Farr, Tali Sommer, Ryan Farr, Andrew May, Peguy Luyindula, and David Rodriguez. Together they explore listening before solving, protecting enjoyment, giving late developers time, and remembering that the child has to stay more important than the sport.\nThe Long Game closes the series with optimism. Youth soccer is still worth believing in, but only if we never lose sight of why children started playing in the first place.\nIn this episode:\n•\tWhy listening should come before solving when a child wants to quit\n•\tWhat parents often forget while chasing development\n•\tWhy freedom and enjoyment create better long-term players\n•\tHow Ryan Farr’s journey challenges early specialization\n•\tWhy growth goals matter more than outcome goals\n•\tWhy the child has to remain more important than the sport\n•\tWhat the best guests from Season One taught us about long-term development\n•\tWhy the future of American youth soccer is still worth fighting for","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pf68ZmEGGzhD_L4GqN2MPEzSyl3kwuk7GVB4PlA2yzk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZWVh/ODMyNzJlMTg1NDQ3/NWZmZjlhOTAwOWEy/ZGJmYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}