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Anonymous wrote:^^yes. Many clubs don't use it as a warm-up tool. Many don't have a soccer culture. There are no rewards for time put in on their own to practice it.
Case in point--my own kid at 9 went from barely juggling 10 to over 1,000 in one summer. Not a single coach in the age group knew this. Why? They don't pay attention to the progress of any of the kids they claim to coach. They only watch about 10 out of the 65--the rest as another poster commented on--are thrown away/on the shit list before they reach 10. Kids in the US aren't pulling out the soccer tricks like kids in other countries because nobody can do them. You change the culture in your own club---and you'd be amazed at what you can accomplish when you start setting challenges. I still am amazed to attend top area tryouts and see maybe only 2-3 out of 150 warming up with juggling and other individual skill sets.
And, yes, the DOC/club directors, are to blame for lack of street soccer when they fill every other minute with some shitty pay-for-training that if a kid doesn't attend he gets a demerit next to his name. It's bad enough kids are subjected to 90 minutes 3 times a week of non-individualized/personal training but now any other free time they have to build their own game is taken away.
Yes--I do blame the Clubs when by 12 a player still can only use one foot. The training with weak foot in practice should have started much younger.
Yes-I do blame the Clubs when a player by 10 doesn't have correct shooting technique.
Yes-I do blame the Clubs when players can't properly receive a ball.
As a parent--I am paying $3500 a year and I still have to teach my kids how to play the game because nobody is teaching them.
So when in all of this do you as a parent take responsibility for what your kid could do away from the game to improve? When do you as a parent take responsibility for keeping your kid in an environment that you recognize as poor development for your kid?
Practice should not be where kids learn to juggle. That is something that any kid, in a home where soccer is a culture will do. Juggling is something that knowledgeable parents will either teach or encourage.
Knowledgeable parents. The poster is claiming there is zero soccer culture in this Country over and over again---and zero knowledgeable soccer parents. IF that is the case--don't the kids have to learn the Culture somewhere? A good coach or Club would be the next best option. No? This is the one that creates rewards and challenges for the kid that can show up at the end of the season with them most consecutive juggles, or quickest # in a minute, etc. This is the coach that tells the kids when they are on the sidelines waiting to practice to start juggling.
A big factor in this area is TRAFFIC. Sometimes the poorest training option is the closest. The dilemma becomes--drive farther away and sit in traffic or pay even more $ to supplement everything your Club is lacking.
I have no qualms about having my kid skip a practice for quality one-on-one training in the early years or skipping a club-sponsored training or camp when I find higher quality ones elsewhere. Below 13--a kid should be working on being the best individual player he/she can be. Clubs have no loyalty--they shouldn't expect it in players either.
And do you think European clubs bother with juggling competitions or do you think it is just something that is expected? The fact that you think a club needs to mandate juggling should tell you everything there is to know about our soccer culture. Juggling should be the equivalent of playing catch in the back yard with a football or baseball.
Look--you are preaching to the choir. Did you miss the sentence where I said my 9-year old could already do over 1,000 consecutive juggles (both feet, other body parts)?
My kids are not the norm because they grew up with a mother that played soccer for 20 years and was kicking a soccer ball with them from the time they could stand. I can't throw a spiral and I certainly can't throw a baseball---but I could play soccer and that's what we did at the park. Thanksgiving extended family football matches---were futbol matches.
My husband coached our boys rec teams. The majority of his players came from parents that had never played soccer themselves or even watched a game on TV. He had all of these kids juggling and using both feet equally as well by the age of 7.
Yes--it would be great if American kids were actually juggling on their own initiative and practicing against a wall--but they aren't. The ones that aren't are most likely kids whose parents never played the sport. They think that the 3 team practices per week are already way too much soccer. So--how are they going to learn what they should be doing? Like my husband and father before him did,,,,,YOU TELL THEM. Whether you think it's a mandate or not---it gets the kids to start doing it and once they start seeing the great improvement and the pride that comes with it--the more and more they do it on their own. You know, it's called: coaching.
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