Private Training is destroying the fabric of Youth Soccer Development

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Don't count on the ECNL coaches developing skills in any of their players. Not going to happen. Outside skills lessons is all those girls can hope for if they want to move on from their plodding ways.

And in sure those Alliance clown coaches are doing a much better job. Oh wait, they don't have an girls HS teams to coach...

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Bizarre, this article makes no sense. It should be attacking the terrible coaching occurring in the team environment, which is where the tactical nous and decision making are developed, not the private individual training which is where the individual technical skill is supposed to be the priority.

Training away from the team, whether expensive private training, or pick up games or whatever, is for individual development, foot-skills, flair, etc. The 2-3 times weekly club/team training is supposed to provide the tactical and group oriented training FFS.

If like this author is saying, you are supposed to train the tactical decision making in private training, then what exactly is supposed to be occurring in the team training?

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Bizarre, this article makes no sense. It should be attacking the terrible coaching occurring in the team environment, which is where the tactical nous and decision making are developed, not the private individual training which is where the individual technical skill is supposed to be the priority.

Training away from the team, whether expensive private training, or pick up games or whatever, is for individual development, foot-skills, flair, etc. The 2-3 times weekly club/team training is supposed to provide the tactical and group oriented training FFS.

If like this author is saying, you are supposed to train the tactical decision making in private training, then what exactly is supposed to be occurring in the team training?

And to think that terrible coaching is costing some parents $10,000 a year.

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Bizarre, this article makes no sense. It should be attacking the terrible coaching occurring in the team environment, which is where the tactical nous and decision making are developed, not the private individual training which is where the individual technical skill is supposed to be the priority.

Training away from the team, whether expensive private training, or pick up games or whatever, is for individual development, foot-skills, flair, etc. The 2-3 times weekly club/team training is supposed to provide the tactical and group oriented training FFS.

If like this author is saying, you are supposed to train the tactical decision making in private training, then what exactly is supposed to be occurring in the team training?

It's not a well written article. That said, I think the writer's point is that there is simply too much focus on technical and not enough on tactical. To summarize too simply, we are building a nation of freestylers and not tacticians. I read an article a while back that talked about how Messi spends the first 5-10 minutes of each game not being overly involved, seemingly more focused on trying to figure out the opponent's tactics.

Despite how poorly the article is written and thus points lost, the overarching argument rings true to me.

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It's not a well written article. That said, I think the writer's point is that there is simply too much focus on technical and not enough on tactical. To summarize too simply, we are building a nation of freestylers and not tacticians. I read an article a while back that talked about how Messi spends the first 5-10 minutes of each game not being overly involved, seemingly more focused on trying to figure out the opponent's tactics.

Despite how poorly the article is written and thus points lost, the overarching argument rings true to me.

Sure, we are not producing tactically adept players that posses good decision making, that much is true. However the point of the article is to pin it entirely on the wrong cause, rendering this article a piece of crap.

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It's not a well written article. That said, I think the writer's point is that there is simply too much focus on technical and not enough on tactical. To summarize too simply, we are building a nation of freestylers and not tacticians. I read an article a while back that talked about how Messi spends the first 5-10 minutes of each game not being overly involved, seemingly more focused on trying to figure out the opponent's tactics.

Despite how poorly the article is written and thus points lost, the overarching argument rings true to me.

i think the point they are trying to make is one that's been said here a lot. it's not going to work if all you work, is during those sessions. (both team training and individual training.) they couldn't quite get it out though. and if it weren't for individual trainers we would all be a lot worse off.

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Or is it that too often parents think they need to get individual training (on top of club) thinking it will give their kid an edge - when in fact the kid doesn't have sufficient passion and drive to work at it on his or her own time? Training can improve skills but it won't solve the issue of drive. The player has to want it, not the parents.

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Or is it that too often parents think they need to get individual training (on top of club) thinking it will give their kid an edge - when in fact the kid doesn't have sufficient passion and drive to work at it on his or her own time? Training can improve skills but it won't solve the issue of drive. The player has to want it, not the parents.

yeah. that's the same as the answer right above.

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Zumba class for masses.

i think the point they are trying to make is one that's been said here a lot. it's not going to work if all you work, is during those sessions. (both team training and individual training.) they couldn't quite get it out though. and if it weren't for individual trainers we would all be a lot worse off.

When did 'private lessons' become a component of weekly training?

The game is the greatest teacher.

I'm sure we have a few 'gamers' in this generation of players.

If private trainers actually had value they would cost more than $30 bucks an hour.

It's just a way for lazy unemployed wanna be youth coaches to subzidize their meager wages as community coaches, little overhead needed as they squat on the local community's million dollar field complexes for free and take the naive parents money with a wink and a smile.

No Taxes on the earnings, no insurance provided, no fields secured or rented.

It's a theif's journey.

Robbing the parents, taxpayers and the IRS.

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A parent's view of Private training

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Regardless, you me me $40 for the hour :)

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With all the structure we place in youth sports fun may be an impossibility. We sign our kids up for club participation, make them specialize, forbid them to do anything else and then wonder why they don't want to live and breathe the sport. Fun is gone. I think we adults are sucking the joy right out of the beautiful game.

Crux of the problem right here.

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Crux of the problem right here.

The problem is kids aren't playing on their own individually or with peers.

Free play and experimentation have vanished.

Replaced with a $40 an hour introduction to a step over or pull back.

It's not only sad it's criminal.

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The problem is kids aren't playing on their own individually or with peers.

Free play and experimentation have vanished.

Replaced with a $40 an hour introduction to a step over or pull back.

It's not only sad it's criminal.

But that is as much a part of our general culture - kids don't hang out in their neighborhoods any longer because everyone has "activities" after school and camps all summer long. It isn't just a soccer issue.

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Oh my gosh. I didn't realize Donald Trump posted on these boards. Cool