Oakwood

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Thanks. I'll take my 38 years experience in the game at all levels up to (barely) pro and continue to evolve.

Get on a futsal court and out of the hockey rinks.

OMG, if we'd only known you had all that experience we would've just taken your word as gospel! Go back to your (barely) pro team and see if anyone in the game needs you to hand them a water. You're a tool. Boards or no boards, it's touches on a ball. There's pros and cons to each. Nobody plays a "competitive" indoor game as another posted said. It's to keep touches going. Should they get rid of the boards? Probably. But why do you care so much? Because your 38 years of experience obviously trump all the experience at all the clubs by their owners and coaches? Your statement just goes to prove to all of us how little you actually do know. Look, someones thirsty! Go run them a bottle.

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OMG, if we'd only known you had all that experience we would've just taken your word as gospel! Go back to your (barely) pro team and see if anyone in the game needs you to hand them a water. You're a tool. Boards or no boards, it's touches on a ball. There's pros and cons to each. Nobody plays a "competitive" indoor game as another posted said. It's to keep touches going. Should they get rid of the boards? Probably. But why do you care so much? Because your 38 years of experience obviously trump all the experience at all the clubs by their owners and coaches? Your statement just goes to prove to all of us how little you actually do know. Look, someones thirsty! Go run them a bottle.

Touches, yes.

Games, no.

Please try to follow along. If you recall, this started about GAME results playing on a hockey rink.

Why do I care? Why do you? I'm pushing to further the game and looking for new ways to improve. Maybe give that a go?

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Touches, yes.

Games, no.

Please try to follow along. If you recall, this started about GAME results playing on a hockey rink.

Why do I care? Why do you? I'm pushing to further the game and looking for new ways to improve. Maybe give that a go?

I'll add...high-level coaches are in agreement. It's why you see futsal being advocated more and more, and newer facilities are going in without the boards.

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I'll add...high-level coaches are in agreement. It's why you see futsal being advocated more and more, and newer facilities are going in without the boards.

Not because it requires a smaller space and elementary school gyms are readily available (and often have more than one court) without building a new facility?

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Not because it requires a smaller space and elementary school gyms are readily available (and often have more than one court) without building a new facility?

Well, it can be played anywhere and encourages free play/skills/freedom. Which everyone should be agreeing we need more of than tactical robots at a young age.

But, the simple fact that if you make a misplaced pass, it shouldn't be rewarded with a mulligan.

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Well, it can be played anywhere and encourages free play/skills/freedom. Which everyone should be agreeing we need more of than tactical robots at a young age.

But, the simple fact that if you make a misplaced pass, it shouldn't be rewarded with a mulligan.

How does simply playing futsal encourage “free play/skills/freedom” exactly?

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How does simply playing futsal encourage “free play/skills/freedom” exactly?

It would if it's largely unsupervised, but kids should be doing more unsupervised play anywhere, not just indoors or against boards. But because check writing parents expect instruction, most times indoor/futsal it won't be.

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How does simply playing futsal encourage “free play/skills/freedom” exactly?

Roll a ball out and play. Encourage skills. Don't need a 115x85 yard patch of grass. Can play it literally anywhere.

Yes, "true" futsal has tactics and skills, etc. But, all you want to be doing is playing ball to foot and foot to ball.

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How does simply playing futsal encourage “free play/skills/freedom” exactly?

It doesn’t. He’s an idiot. “Teaching” futsal does, “playing” doesn’t. Otherwise your just playing soccer with a small deadened ball. Oakwood has futsal clinics. They’re a joke. They coach them the same things they do every day, but they use a futsal ball. And Mr gazillion years of playing experience is once again smarter than every player and coach out there. Yet he sits on TS dead as a door nail pontificating about how he can revolutionize the USSF. Go back to coaching on your Xbox and don’t forget to share the controller with your kids.

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It doesn’t. He’s an idiot. “Teaching” futsal does, “playing” doesn’t. Otherwise your just playing soccer with a small deadened ball. Oakwood has futsal clinics. They’re a joke. They coach them the same things they do every day, but they use a futsal ball. And Mr gazillion years of playing experience is once again smarter than every player and coach out there. Yet he sits on TS dead as a door nail pontificating about how he can revolutionize the USSF. Go back to coaching on your Xbox and don’t forget to share the controller with your kids.

https://www.soccertoday.com/anson-do...s-need-futsal/

Anson Dorrance: Honestly, a part of the reason kids are quitting soccer is we’ve become too aggressive and linear. Our nationally mandated player development system is choking our young players’ freedom to be multiple sport athletes and to represent their high schools; to just play for fun some of the time. I think we have to return to is what makes it fun, more of the time.

FUTSAL IS FUN.

I’ve had my players play futsal forever. You can go back to the Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly era at UNC and even the recent years with players Crystal Dunn and Tobin Heath … One night a week from January to the end of our spring season, the players are playing futsal — and, absolutely loving it.


Diane Scavuzzo: Why do players love playing futsal?

Anson Dorrance: One reason they love it is we don’t overburden them with a training environment. We basically let them play.

Diane Scavuzzo: Why do you believe so strongly in futsal as a key development tool for soccer players?

Anson Dorrance: Of all the games that are out there, the game that can teach players how to play most efficiently, is futsal.

It’s also a game you can play multiple systems with. Keith (Tozer) and I will expose different systems at the convention.

I want to push futsal as a player development platform.

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Diane Scavuzzo: Why do players love playing futsal?

Anson Dorrance: One reason they love it is we don’t overburden them with a training environment. We basically let them play.

Translation: Anson's coaching sucks and turns kids away from soccer. Remove the coaching from soccer and it will be fun, too; let them play soccer, like you let them play futsal.

Diane Scavuzzo: Why do you believe so strongly in futsal as a key development tool for soccer players?

Anson Dorrance: Of all the games that are out there, the game that can teach players how to play most efficiently, is futsal.

Translation: Anson can't coach soccer. Incapable of it. Sucks.

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Right, I would much rather get all my soccer information from anonymous shltbags on here. Makes total sense....

Albert Anson Dorrance IV (born April 9, 1951) is an American soccer coach. He is currently the head coach of the women's soccer program at the University of North Carolina. He has one of the most successful coaching records in the history of athletics.

Under Dorrance's leadership, the Tar Heels have won 21 of the 31 NCAA Women's Soccer Championships. The Tar Heels' record under Dorrance stood at 809-67-36 (.907 winning percentage) over 33 seasons at the end of the 2017 season. He has led his team to a 101-game unbeaten streak and coached 13 different women to a total of 20 National Player of the Year awards.

The NCAA has recognized Dorrance as the Women's Soccer Coach of the Year seven times (1982, 1986, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2006) and as the Men's Soccer Coach of the Year in 1987. On March 10, 2008 Dorrance was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

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1) Ansal said the players enjoy playing futsal *because* there's no coaching.

2) Ansal also said that futsal is a key development tool that most efficiently teaches players how to play.

When reading 2) remember that Ansal said there's no coaching in 1).

So, the conclusion is, Ansal sucks.

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* sigh *

Enjoy your short-track NASCAR soccer training....

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1) Ansal said the players enjoy playing futsal *because* there's no coaching.

2) Ansal also said that futsal is a key development tool that most efficiently teaches players how to play.

When reading 2) remember that Ansal said there's no coaching in 1).

So, the conclusion is, Ansal sucks.

Just admit you got schooled.