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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMFG, NO score keeping at that age! Your club does this because it is developmentally inappropriate to keep score.

You really just want them to have fun, don't worry so much about rules.  Your only goal, is that they should have so much fun that they want to do it again, with you as coach, in the Spring.  [/quote]

Totally wrong.... If its a just for fun activity there would be no competing against each other. The whole purpose of the game is to try score and stop your opponent from scoring. The dont keep score folks are more worried about their kids not losing than learning the lessons in losing.[/quote]

Sure, if this is the national team. This is U-littles at 4v4 without goalies. The goal is skill development and player retention. Get them to dribble, learn cuts turns and moves, try them under pressure, and have fun so that they come back. Celebrate their goals, but also celebrate their attempts at something difficult or a good decision even if it doesn’t end in a goal. I would rather have a player lose the ball trying a move and get scored on than whack the ball forward and it meanders into the net. Team results are not the point - individual development is. [/quote]

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