NPR The high cost of the youth sports arms race

HOWELL: I think I liked it. That was only a couple of years ago for me, definitely. So I do remember having fun and especially you have all your fun little pizza parties and everything after, I think where it started to shift just a little bit was, we were trying to figure out who the goalkeeper of the team is going to be. And the story that I was told several times was I took a ball to the face and didn’t cry, and everyone was like, “Yes. Goalkeeper.”