Simply, without technique there are no tactics such as 2 touch passing. One must be mastered first to achieve the other.
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Receiving, receiving, receiving. The ability to receive sets up everything else in the game. Nothing else come close in priority as a technical skill.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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So glad you one trick wannabe coaching dads only spout this nonsense on the internet and aren't anywhere near my kid.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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What is it you disagree with exactlyComment
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The most important skill in soccer is your first touch. With out a good frst touch you cannot shoot, pass or dribble. If you can not receive a ball nothing else follows.Comment
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completely agree. A great coach once said without a good first touch there is no second touch.Comment
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...meanwhile the tactical wizards of the "winning" clubs train another 10 year old to...boot it into touch when under pressure, switch the field on their command, get rid of the ball like a hot potato, raise the line to draw the offside call...and push thru to another win!! Honestly, receiving, passing, dribbling, shooting--all these skills are so much better than forcing kids into a result-driven system designed only for the glory of the club or coach. To paraphrase Seth Godin: "We can teach kids to engage in poetry, to write poetry, and to demand poetry--or we can settle for...YouTube and LOLcats"...or win-driven robo-soccer.Comment
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You people get on TS and brag about how many games your U-littles won. Then a thread like this begins and the technical wizards come out. You just want to have it both ways. It takes time to teach the basics of the game. It takes time for players to figure out the nuances of the game. Parents however, see results and make a judgement about progress. It takes time but you parents are afraid that little John/Jane is missing out on development if they are not on a winning team by age 12. So, at 16 their 1st touch is atrocious and now that they are on the bench you chat about how long they have been playing and the coach must not really know how good they are which is why they are on the bench. Too many experts. Too many parent coaches.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Sooo Wrong! The parents who brag about "winning" teams have kids ON winning teams because they have been drawn to "win first" teams by snake-oil selling, short-cut taking, mercenary or egotistical coaches who need to feed their respective beasts (financial/ego) by, you guessed, it, WINNING. Not enough experts, not enough "development first" coaches!!Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Development is coach speak for not being able to win.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Wow you are missing the point. 7-0-0 at u14 and under is a wasted season. 3-3-1 with a net zero for goal diff means your kids are getting the right combination of success and challenge on the field. Unfortunately for some parents this is like getting a C in school.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
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Rubbish. You cannot have it both ways in the world of T/S. 3-3-1 will not return players to your squad if local teams have better records. Development is tossed around like a hot potato with nobody willing to truly hold onto it.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
If I ran a development only academy with no matches or results until u13 or whatever age, I would be coaching myself by my second year. There is not a parent in youth soccer who would buy into that scenario, as evidenced by the growth of such absolute crap as gotsoccer points. Even the vaunted DAP programs are compared by results with each other, not by how smartly the game is played at graduation from said academy.
Development and results cannot coexist in pure form. There needs to be development leagues where every avenue of the game can be taught during the match with no pressure on result at all ages. There is no league or club program that would survive in that format. Results are the driving force of every decision made in this country in regards to soccer. Unfortunately, without them, how do you measure development?Comment
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So you win 7-0 week 1 and lose 0-7 week 2?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Sounds like every league in Mass.Comment
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