Originally posted by Unregistered
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Have to agree. My son is a keeper whose team was far less superior to almost all teams in his league. The higher talented teams were definitely not getting the best "training" or habits by playing against his squad. On the other hand because his team was overmatched often, as a goalkeeper he improved tremendously because HE WAS getting great "training" by actually facing the onslaught of better talent each weekend & in tournaments.
Not sure if you get my parallel but if your child is playing against similar or better talented teams each and every week they are going to improve because there's no better training ground. And where my son was getting unbelievable training having to face quality competition each weekend it was obvious that the goalkeepers on the other teams we're nit getting the best or any "training" and impossible to improve playing the likes of my son's team. You see it in high school too. The pain is passing the ball back to their keepers just so they can play a ball or two because otherwise they never touch it nevermind have to make a save even.
So obviously the same would go for the other players out on the field. They can start bad habits or actually playing down to their opponents or it becomes a glorified practice on offense which doesn't help defenders or defending midfielders improve at defending. Sure its great everybody on good teams gets better offensively but then when they're matched up against a slightly more talented or more talented team and they need to defend better as a whole 1 through 11, you say to yourself boy if we played better competition each week maybe it wouldn't be as bad.
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