Marshfield United Soccer Club (MUSC)
MARSHFIELD UNITED'S INTENT IS TO CREATE THE BEST ENVIRONMENT WE CAN TO PROVIDE CHILDREN THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN, PLAY, EXPERIENCE AND ENJOY SOCCER!
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A PLACE IN OUR CLUB?
SOME CLUB VALUES:
PLAY
"Play encourages self-regulation and curiosity, emphasizing continuous exploration and enhances movement adaptability." Play is how children learn to move, to socialize, to imagine, to construct, to explore, and much more. Our practices are game based.
FUN
We are a club for kids who love to play soccer. OUT with the constant instruction and IN with giving children the opportunity to make their own decisions. We want kids to have fun and feel safe to make mistakes. We want kids to be engaged and to avoid long queues.
LONG TERM DEVELOPMENT
"Skilled behavior evolves over timescales of performance, learning, and development." We think long-term. We value togetherness and want to help players and teams form synergies over time.
What is winning?
“Being better today then you were yesterday, every day.”
How do players learn and what is the learning process?
“Learning is not the process of repeating a solution, it is repeating the process of finding a solution.”
We believe that skills are acquired in context. The way a player perceives, will determine how a player acts. Soccer has a landscape of opportunities to perceive and act on (affordances).
ADULT DIRECTION
We try to use verbal feedback sparingly to help guide behavior.
We want to give players the opportunity to make their own decisions, to make mistakes, and learn from them. We want to encourage self regulation and self directed learning.
We want to help players become independent of continuous instruction, feedback, and direction.
10 commandments of an ecological approach - YOUTUBE
COMPETITION
We want to include as many players as possible and for as long as possible, but that doesn't mean we're not competitive. We encourage competitiveness and want kids who are resilient, perseverant, and who support their teammates.
“You can't climb mountains by going around them. You learn to climb mountains by climbing mountains.”
COLLABORATION
If you're a parent who compares their child's team to other teams, wants their child to win at all costs, constantly shouts instructions, argues with the coach, likes to club hop, we're not going to be a good fit for you.
Soccer is a team sport. If you're interested in a place at our club, before signing up please make sure you're aware of the commitment because your participation will be important for everyone involved.
WE ARE MARSHFIELD UNITED
We are different from other clubs and we're proud of this. Our philosophy is science based, therefore we see benefits in playing on teams of mixed abilities. We don't evaluate and select young players to design winning teams. "We don't label children as elite or treat them like mini professionals. They are kids."
We want to shape environments with a focus on fun, as opposed to 'serious'. "A playful state of mind is an ideal state for learning."
The majority of our players are from Marshfield but we play against clubs who have players from all over. Who select "the best of the best". We know that games will be challenging. We are playing these teams not because they are easy, because they are hard. “The reasons you seek out the tough stuff is.. to challenge you to be better”