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Chasing the dream - how do you parent a young football star?

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Kyle Walker insists that tough love as a youngster helped forge him into an elite player.

Kyle Walker said he used to hate going to games with his father because he would be reduced to tears by the critique of his performances in the car afterwards.

Nigel James still loves to coach, even if his work developing his own kids on the football pitch is complete.

Myles Myles Pike was one of the world's most famous football stars when he was 15 .

Now Myles runs a platform called No1Fan.club to help parents navigate youth football.

The platform hosts one-to-one chats, Q&As and workshops for the public and academies.

Pike 's experiences have moulded how he parents.

Pike has had to explain his own story and talk down some who he feels were putting unrealistic expectations on kids as young as three or four .

He also advises parents to observe a " five-minute rule" after matches - talk about it for five minutes , but then move on.

Pike says with Beau and other players he coaches, he is "trying to set good standards that serve them well in football and life".

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70

Informative language

66

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Article tone

informal

Language

English

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32

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