Sportsmanship and Prayer

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Sportsmanship and Prayer

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As a basic rule of sportsmanship, I have been accustomed to lining up after each game and shaking hands with the other team. If we are going to encourage the players to be menshes, I believe it is incumbent on all of the coaches to demonstrate to the players these types of sportsmanship behaviors.

On a similar note, I played sandlot football as a child, and we prayed before each game. Does anyone have thoughts on any tefilos we could say as team?

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shake hands and prayer

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The kids for sure should be shaking hands after the games.

As for prayers, as a Jewish, but not a religious league, I'm apprehensive of instituting prayers formally into our soccer seder. Individually, it sounds like a great idea. I'd be curious if people have specific tehillim or otherwise to turn to.
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