Nabin Maharjan - Football Coach

17% of parents think their child is destined to go pro.

That isn’t belief. It’s entitlement with a tracksuit on.

“Destined” is the word that turns childhood sport into an adult ego project.
▪️ It doesn’t support the child.
▪️ It recruits the child.

And children feel it.
➡️ In the car.
➡️ On the touchline.
➡️ In the tone after mistakes.
➡️ In the silence when they don’t win.

Here’s the part parents dodge:
Around 70% of children quit organised sport by 13. Not because they’re lazy, because the fun gets strangled by adult urgency.

⚫️ When you treat Saturday like an audition, you teach fear.
⚫️ When you chase early wins, you trade long term development for short term reassurance.
⚫️ When you push “more sessions, more extras, more exposure”, you don’t create pros.

You create children who associate sport with stress.

Most children will not go pro.
Most won’t even want to by the time they’re older.

So if you’re applying pro level pressure to a childhood hobby, you’re not ambitious.
🤯 You’re reckless.

✅ Ambition has a place.
⚠️ Pressure has a cost.

The balance is simple:
❤️ Demand effort.
❌ Don’t demand an identity.

Support the dream.
Stop writing the ending.

Because one day they will play their last match.
Your job is to make sure it doesn’t happen at 13 because you made sport feel like a job.

If your ambition costs their love for the game, you didn’t aim high.

You aimed wrong.

🚨 98%. 🚨

That’s not a typo!

98% of academy footballers in England are OUT of the top five tiers by the age of 18.

Not by 25.
Not after a long career.
By 18!!
These aren’t average kids.
They were so called:
⚽ “elite prospects”
🏟️ signed to professional clubs
🧠 trained daily in academy systems

And yet...

⏳ Within two years of being offered a scholarship, almost all of them are gone.

The most shocking part isn’t the number.
It’s that we still act surprised when it happens.
📊 Source: Research conducted at Brunel University London, reported by Sky Sports, tracking the outcomes of academy scholars in England (top five tiers).

The deeper the foundation, the taller the rise.

🗣Coaching kids isn't just about teaching them skills; it's about instilling values like teamwork, discipline, and perseverance - Sir Alex Ferguson

सूचना ! सूचना !! सूचना !!!

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एपीएफ फुटबल क्लबले खेलाडी छनोट कार्यक्रम आयोजना गर्न गईरहेको छ।

उक्त प्रतियोगितामा एपीएफ फुटबल क्लबबाट सहभगी हुन इच्छुक १८ वर्ष मुनिका फुटबल खेलाडीहरूलाई तल उल्लेखित मिति, समय र स्थानमा उपस्थित हुन अनुरोध गरिन्छ।

आवश्यक कागजातहरू:

राष्ट्रिय परिचयपत्र (अनिवार्य)

नागरिकता प्रमाणपत्र वा राहदानी

जन्म प्रमाणपत्र

एस.ई.ई. प्रमाणपत्र

योग्यता-:
खेलाडीको जन्म मिति २०६४ साल पौष १७ गते (१ January 2008 A.D.) देखि २०६७ साल पौष १६ गते (३१ December 2010 A.D.) भित्र हुनुपर्ने।

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तपशील:
📅 मिति: २०८२ असोज ३१ गते, शुक्रबार
🕒 समय: दिउँसो ३:०० बजे
📍 स्थान: नेपाल एपीएफ रंगशाला, हलचोक, काठमाडौं

सम्पर्क नम्बरहरू:
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Nepal U-23 team departing for Tajikistan to compete in the AFC U-23 Asian Cup Qualifiers. 💪🇳🇵

Grateful beyond words .