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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same on my kid's team.  There is one player on the team who is fairly tall/fast for his age, however, he is the weakest technical player on the team: he has weak ball control ability and very little skill at shooting, too.

Yet, when he plays, he plays as striker!  This makes it very difficult for the toothless offense to score when he's in the game.

Roughly speaking, if you were to classify players as either "creative" players who can control the ball and create attacking plays, versus "destructive" players who have a knack for breaking up the opponents' possession and attacks, this kid is CLEARLY a more destructive player.  He can effectively use his speed and size to harass the other side and steal the ball.  However, he lacks the ability to do anything with the ball once he gets it.

I try to stay out of the coach's business, and so I haven't said anything about it, but it's very puzzling to me why he plays this kid at striker.[/quote]

Where would you put him? If your coach is worried about winning he/she is not going to trust him on D. The ball will never get out of midfield with this kid because he isn't skilled enough to move it up. I think this is why these kids end up as striker.[/quote]

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