ECNL moving to school year not calendar

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Anonymous wrote:Greatest hoax since the moon landing. Well played

Maybe the age change is a hoax, bit early to call though.

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Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Never seen or heard of a National team dominated by Q4 or late developers.

It was pointed out from where exactly?

9/1 cut off boosts the last third of the calendar year kids to the top of the pre-puberty Relative Age Effect pile because those kids are the oldest in the age group. The theory is that before puberty, their small, but at that age significant, age difference gives them an advantage. They are therefore selected for top teams, are more "successful", more confident, and end up getting better training, etc.

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That would be funny if they sent out all these tea leaves telegraphing that a change was coming only to say SIKE

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Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

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Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

Correct. They abuse oversized kids who have some skills over really ballers who perhaps have not developed yet. Is all about the coaches in many instances.

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Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

Correct. They abuse oversized kids who have some skills over really ballers who perhaps have not developed yet. Is all about the coaches in many instances.

This

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Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

Correct. They abuse oversized kids who have some skills over really ballers who perhaps have not developed yet. Is all about the coaches in many instances.

Let's see how your 3 or 4 or 5 average or short defenders do against tall forwards on those corners and free kicks 😄

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So you guys are saying kids need more skill work at practices? But the easiest and cheapest thing to do at practices is scrimmage. And clubs get into exclusive club v club leagues by winning. Sounds like a big problem is that it pays $$ to be a talent aggregator club, and does not pay $$ to be a talent developer club.

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Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

Correct. They abuse oversized kids who have some skills over really ballers who perhaps have not developed yet. Is all about the coaches in many instances.

kind of. No one really is a baller in grass roots path. Generally if you are undersized or slow you are forced to be more technical. Coaches need to focus on development vice winning until these kids are 15-16. And in the end if they can do that you will be left with a core of technical kids who are fast and strong.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. AND IN 90% OF THE CASES THERE ATHLETICISM TRUMPS TECHNICAL. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

The best players in the world are technical and not supreme athletes. Run a list of fastest players in the Prem and see how many names you have that are all stars. More Timo, Pedro and Murdyk than Cain, Salah and Messi.............

I see Trinity first touch and think there has to be someone in the pool that can actually play soccer that is somewhat fast and strong.

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Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

Correct. They abuse oversized kids who have some skills over really ballers who perhaps have not developed yet. Is all about the coaches in many instances.

Let's see how your 3 or 4 or 5 average or short defenders do against tall forwards on those corners and free kicks 😄

You mean the ones that body check and throw kids? Yeah, real talented and definitely doesn't get called at all for that at a semi professional/professional level. What they let these kids get away with is disgusting and a disservice to those players who never heard to actually play soccer. How many of those kids play for the national team, I'll wait. Girma would destroy every single one of those 6' talentless players by herself.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

Correct. They abuse oversized kids who have some skills over really ballers who perhaps have not developed yet. Is all about the coaches in many instances.

Let's see how your 3 or 4 or 5 average or short defenders do against tall forwards on those corners and free kicks 😄

Dude, the best women's defenders in the world are all 5'7' or below..............they do fine.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

The best players on the USMNT and USWNT are not what would be considered tremendous athletes. But they sure as hell are technical. But I have hope for the next generation.

[Anonymous]

Back on task - any leaks yet!!??

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The meeting ends at 5pm