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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally feel it's the desire to win now versus develop.  I've seen it time and time again, you can have amazing footskills and good soccer IQ, but if you can out sprint the defender you are not on the first team.   So they recruit early developed athletes.

My son was on the younger side of the age group change and had to skip a year.  Slower and smaller than others so he was moved to the 2nd team even though he had some of the best technical skills on the team.  We changed clubs and he worked his way back up to the 1st team and has now caught up physically.  Old club has been trying to bring him back, but no thanks.[/quote]

Same story for my kids too.[/quote]

While I agree in general with 11:44 and 12:02, PP above illustrates where I think that view breaks down.  I don't think clubs that say they are focused on development should bump down talented, hard workers - particularly at the younger ages - for the sole reason that a shiny new toy came along.  What does it say about a club's development process when it bumps down a talented kid who has been on the club for a couple of years in favor of a "new" kid who may or may not have the same talent but just happens to be at a different stage in terms of physical development.  The physical part will even out soon enough, if it doesn't then perhaps that is when things should be shifted.  The win now mentality misses the forest for the trees.  [/quote]

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