"Late" convert to soccer - skill development

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:our daughter didn't play much before that age and excelled. Many of the the kids that are the top players today have reached their peak and get passed over by players like your daughter, they will be tired of playing and stop playing soon after 8th grade while the kids late to the game excel. how their bodies develop becomes a factor as well.

It happens all the time in all sports so don't buy into the hype that she missed her prime training years.

Hyperbole.
Conjecture.
False Narrative.
Opinion not based on pure facts in context.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:our daughter didn't play much before that age and excelled. Many of the the kids that are the top players today have reached their peak and get passed over by players like your daughter, they will be tired of playing and stop playing soon after 8th grade while the kids late to the game excel. how their bodies develop becomes a factor as well.

It happens all the time in all sports so don't buy into the hype that she missed her prime training years.

Hyperbole.
Conjecture.
False Narrative.
Opinion not based on pure facts in context.

Are you ok, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:our daughter didn't play much before that age and excelled. Many of the the kids that are the top players today have reached their peak and get passed over by players like your daughter, they will be tired of playing and stop playing soon after 8th grade while the kids late to the game excel. how their bodies develop becomes a factor as well.

It happens all the time in all sports so don't buy into the hype that she missed her prime training years.

Hyperbole.
Conjecture.
False Narrative.
Opinion not based on pure facts in context.

LOL. Looks like someone has been paying thousands of dollars on private training for their DD since childbirth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:our daughter didn't play much before that age and excelled. Many of the the kids that are the top players today have reached their peak and get passed over by players like your daughter, they will be tired of playing and stop playing soon after 8th grade while the kids late to the game excel. how their bodies develop becomes a factor as well.

It happens all the time in all sports so don't buy into the hype that she missed her prime training years.

Hyperbole.
Conjecture.
False Narrative.
Opinion not based on pure facts in context.

LOL. Looks like someone has been paying thousands of dollars on private training for their DD since childbirth.

Any kid that "reach their peak" and stop playing by 8th grade were just recreational players on a temporary fun ride since Day1
As soon as puberty started kicking in all around, the gaps between them and semi-serious players became the grand canyon. So they quit.

If you are 11/12 and just started playing against serious players who have been consistently working on technical skills and soccer IQ since 5/6/7 years old, and continue to do so, your odds of catching and passing them are slim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:our daughter didn't play much before that age and excelled. Many of the the kids that are the top players today have reached their peak and get passed over by players like your daughter, they will be tired of playing and stop playing soon after 8th grade while the kids late to the game excel. how their bodies develop becomes a factor as well.

It happens all the time in all sports so don't buy into the hype that she missed her prime training years.

Hyperbole.
Conjecture.
False Narrative.
Opinion not based on pure facts in context.

LOL. Looks like someone has been paying thousands of dollars on private training for their DD since childbirth.

Any kid that "reach their peak" and stop playing by 8th grade were just recreational players on a temporary fun ride since Day1
As soon as puberty started kicking in all around, the gaps between them and semi-serious players became the grand canyon. So they quit.

If you are 11/12 and just started playing against serious players who have been consistently working on technical skills and soccer IQ since 5/6/7 years old, and continue to do so, your odds of catching and passing them are slim.

Soccer IQ at 5-7 years old? LOL. At this age, they could barely tie their own shoes.

[Anonymous]

Wow, someone has really drunk the koolaid! LoL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She will never be able to catch up even if she was natural gifted. What happens at u12(and younger) is the girls are put in to a field position that best suits their abilities.
If you are not good with the ball the coach will not want you having the ball a lot. The players becomes a roll players usually tied to a physical trait- physicality or speed. They will usually be placed in a forward or defensive roll.
The skilled players will receive the ball more and develop with the exception that they get the ball in games. The non skilled players will told to play their roll and get the ball to the skill players.

Most of girls/women soccer is about physical play and speed. Have her workout and put on muscle.

This is total BS. “High level” youth soccer in the US is low on technical ability. If she is willing and able to put in 30-40 minutes of quality skill work every day on her own outside of practice, working with intensity and staying engaged, she can still become a very good player. I coached a few players that were rec level at 10/11 and, 10 yrs later, were playing in college. One signed a pro contract at 20.

Sure. She is suddenly going to take over games with her technical skill and passing abilities? The kids who came late or like most are limited technically have to be really good athletes and fast. That is all you need to play college. They are roll players usually on defense or maybe striker, their game is very limited. College soccer is not really a high level so these type of player fit right in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She will never be able to catch up even if she was natural gifted. What happens at u12(and younger) is the girls are put in to a field position that best suits their abilities.
If you are not good with the ball the coach will not want you having the ball a lot. The players becomes a roll players usually tied to a physical trait- physicality or speed. They will usually be placed in a forward or defensive roll.
The skilled players will receive the ball more and develop with the exception that they get the ball in games. The non skilled players will told to play their roll and get the ball to the skill players.

Most of girls/women soccer is about physical play and speed. Have her workout and put on muscle.

This is total BS. “High level” youth soccer in the US is low on technical ability. If she is willing and able to put in 30-40 minutes of quality skill work every day on her own outside of practice, working with intensity and staying engaged, she can still become a very good player. I coached a few players that were rec level at 10/11 and, 10 yrs later, were playing in college. One signed a pro contract at 20.

Sure. She is suddenly going to take over games with her technical skill and passing abilities? The kids who came late or like most are limited technically have to be really good athletes and fast. That is all you need to play college. They are roll players usually on defense or maybe striker, their game is very limited. College soccer is not really a high level so these type of player fit right in.

At the start of your post, you insinuate that she can’t develop enough technically and by the end you are insinuating she may fit right into college soccer. Uh, the OP was asking about playing through HS, not starting as the number 8 for Real Madrid.

You can knock college soccer - and it certainly is usually ugly and has lots of faults - but the reality is this area has about 1 youth player every year or two who is actually able to bypass that level and launch a legit pro career, and many of them, frankly, aren’t especially technical players…because the US youth system is very poor at developing technical ability, and it’s not particularly hard for a late convert to narrow the gap.

[Anonymous]

Starting at an early age is definitely important.

Being graced with the right athletic genes helps too.

If your DD enjoys soccer great. Travel is better than rec and high level travel is better than travel.

Sure there are a few Alex Morgan’s out there but there are probably a thousand girls who never catch up for ever Alex Morgan.

[Anonymous]

NP. My son started late and in addition to some of the suggestions made here we had great effect from him taking the ball when ever he walked outside. To school, to the store, to friends houses, to the park. Old school I guess but it worked for us. No driving, no fees!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:our daughter didn't play much before that age and excelled. Many of the the kids that are the top players today have reached their peak and get passed over by players like your daughter, they will be tired of playing and stop playing soon after 8th grade while the kids late to the game excel. how their bodies develop becomes a factor as well.

It happens all the time in all sports so don't buy into the hype that she missed her prime training years.

Hyperbole.
Conjecture.
False Narrative.
Opinion not based on pure facts in context.

LOL. Looks like someone has been paying thousands of dollars on private training for their DD since childbirth.

Seriously! It’s okay if your kid has some competition from those that didn’t buy in to the hype and shell out their life savings so their DS or DD could be the star you always wanted to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:our daughter didn't play much before that age and excelled. Many of the the kids that are the top players today have reached their peak and get passed over by players like your daughter, they will be tired of playing and stop playing soon after 8th grade while the kids late to the game excel. how their bodies develop becomes a factor as well.

It happens all the time in all sports so don't buy into the hype that she missed her prime training years.

Hyperbole.
Conjecture.
False Narrative.
Opinion not based on pure facts in context.

LOL. Looks like someone has been paying thousands of dollars on private training for their DD since childbirth.

Any kid that "reach their peak" and stop playing by 8th grade were just recreational players on a temporary fun ride since Day1
As soon as puberty started kicking in all around, the gaps between them and semi-serious players became the grand canyon. So they quit.

If you are 11/12 and just started playing against serious players who have been consistently working on technical skills and soccer IQ since 5/6/7 years old, and continue to do so, your odds of catching and passing them are slim.

Soccer IQ at 5-7 years old? LOL. At this age, they could barely tie their own shoes.

Speak for your kid.

That said, Soccer IQ at young ages is something only people knowledgeable about youth soccer development would understand.
You hear IQ and thinks it means solving complex issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:our daughter didn't play much before that age and excelled. Many of the the kids that are the top players today have reached their peak and get passed over by players like your daughter, they will be tired of playing and stop playing soon after 8th grade while the kids late to the game excel. how their bodies develop becomes a factor as well.

It happens all the time in all sports so don't buy into the hype that she missed her prime training years.

Hyperbole.
Conjecture.
False Narrative.
Opinion not based on pure facts in context.

LOL. Looks like someone has been paying thousands of dollars on private training for their DD since childbirth.

Any kid that "reach their peak" and stop playing by 8th grade were just recreational players on a temporary fun ride since Day1
As soon as puberty started kicking in all around, the gaps between them and semi-serious players became the grand canyon. So they quit.

If you are 11/12 and just started playing against serious players who have been consistently working on technical skills and soccer IQ since 5/6/7 years old, and continue to do so, your odds of catching and passing them are slim.

Soccer IQ at 5-7 years old? LOL. At this age, they could barely tie their own shoes.

Speak for your kid.

That said, Soccer IQ at young ages is something only people knowledgeable about youth soccer development would understand.
You hear IQ and thinks it means solving complex issues.

Congratulations. You won the dumbest post of the day!