Training technique suggestions or professional trainer recommendations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this stage there is a huge difference in how kids were trained U9-U13. We went the developmental route and left some big name Clubs, did a lot of individual training from a variety of different styles and a club that was big on tactical sense and touches, drills with numerical superiority, etc. I can tell you at both clubs we noticed the current trans to be lacking and below level. We did see how the older teams play u16+ and that’s what we are basing our decision on, but I can’t say I’m not worried playing and training at a much tactically/technically lower level will set my kid back. I watched a 3v2 drill that consisted of not a single pass but kid coming out and blasting it to goal—-play over, next. It was insane at U13 level. We are coming from a place the kids easily string together 9-10 passes and still can finish.

Yeah rising U14 is the age where you realize that dad being the team manager and *ss-kissing to get his kid on certain teams all prior years did nothing for kid's development. He should have focused more on getting the kid training and proper coaching. There eventually is a time limit on how far that butt k*ssing can go. He might eek one more year out of it, but by HS age on the upper level teams---no way. Nobody is going to put up with that---certainly not the other players. I swear if some of these U9-U12 parents spent even a quarter of the time they do lobbying the coach/club and actually went out and investigated trainers and coaches and having their kid work on their skills, their kid wouldn't need an 'agent'.