Summer Soccer Options

[Anonymous]

It is tough due to COVID. My son used to do a bunch of pickup games at parks in Alexandria. There were a mix of abiiities, but he definitely played looser and seemed to have more fun than at regular travel soccer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I assume the previous posted means to compete in the summer 3v3 tournaments.

https://3v3live.com/

Great idea. Cannot wait for my kids to get scholarships to pay 3v3 at UVA.

Have fun doing whatever you are doing, but this is the secret sauce. Maybe not 3v3 but small sided. 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, 8v8. Pick up of any ages and numbers. Have you ever watched top U14, U15s, U16s, U17s, play 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, 8v8? They are flying. hundreds of touches. Hundreds of decisions, dozens of 1v1s. Dozens of transitions. Dozens of mistakes. You get a group of kids of equal ability or better and just have them play small sided, intense games. ...that's what will get your kid to the next level. 11v11 becomes easy. To each their own though.

Some kids don’t like playing 3v3 because the game reveals their foot skills. Playing 11v11 allows to hide the player’s terrible bad touch that results in bad passes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume the previous posted means to compete in the summer 3v3 tournaments.

https://3v3live.com/

Great idea. Cannot wait for my kids to get scholarships to pay 3v3 at UVA.

Have fun doing whatever you are doing, but this is the secret sauce. Maybe not 3v3 but small sided. 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, 8v8. Pick up of any ages and numbers. Have you ever watched top U14, U15s, U16s, U17s, play 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, 8v8? They are flying. hundreds of touches. Hundreds of decisions, dozens of 1v1s. Dozens of transitions. Dozens of mistakes. You get a group of kids of equal ability or better and just have them play small sided, intense games. ...that's what will get your kid to the next level. 11v11 becomes easy. To each their own though.

Some kids don’t like playing 3v3 because the game reveals their foot skills. Playing 11v11 allows to hide the player’s terrible bad touch that results in bad passes.

Yes, this is very true.