Hello · Total Goalkeeping

Hello

Hi everyone,

Sorry we have been so inactive on here and in posting. Some of you may remember my son Nathan wanted to be on TikTok and social media for his goalkeeping he got quite a big following. He got a lot of negativity in school about this and requested we stoped recording and uploading. He has been really struggling with his anxiety. Still playing but at times he’s been close to giving up. Hes 14 now and his hormones are all over. He has really started to feel what the academy’s have said about him not being predicted 6ft plus and taken this to heart and feels like there is no point trying. So we are at the point of picking him back up. Reassuring him that it’s ok to not be that size and playing for fun is ok. Which in a perfect world would be ok. He’s recently been assessed as dyslexic, hates school and goalkeeping was his dream. So between the “loss” of the dream and having to go to school (which he has school based anxiety) he’s not living his best life. We are taking it one day at a time. He’s at the stage of being angry that he cannot progress because of something out of his hands to switching to “I’m not bothered” but then lashing out. So it’s been fun. He’s still playing grassroots and JPL. He did move to another club for his grassroots team and his wasn’t playing at his level and he wanted to be playing for a team at his level so he could progress. Which meant more agro at school. So as you can tell it’s been tricky. We haven’t bought new gloves in a while as I bought lots in the sale 🤣 love a sale 🫢 hope you are all well, good luck everyone playing today 💪🏻

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