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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my son's U10 travel coaches referred us to watch some videos of U10 teams playing in tournaments in Europe. These were the youth clubs of some of the big name clubs in Spain - Barcelona, Real Madrid, etc.  I really have no idea how it works over there, but I guess this is the "elite" / MLSNext / ECNL whatever league for U-littles over there in Spain.

So my boys and I watched several games, and in particular we happened to watch the same U10 Barcelona team play against several different opponents.  We were watching with an eye toward seeing the style of play and trying to learn from it.

One thing we noticed -- the kids were not rotated through different positions during the tournament: we saw the same kids playing defense game to game; the same kids in midfield game to game; the same offensive players game to game.

I have read other posts on here where others expressed their views about the importance of rotating kids through different positions, in order to make each player more well-rounded.  While this sounds right to me, especially while the players are young, is this how they do it in Europe?  It seems like this is another one of those "things to do for development" versus "things to do to win games" ... and I thought the big gripe about US youth soccer was that there was too much focus on winning games instead of development, and that the Europeans generally do it better.

But what do the Europeans do with players rotating in different positions at say, U10?  Legit question for anyone who knows -- I honestly have no idea.  Based on the little I've seen, they are already specializing players into different positions at a young age.  They might be rotating them year to year, or month to month, or whatever, but they certainly aren't moving kids around during games or even during tournaments. [/quote]

What are the sub rules? Free substitution? How many players play?

One reason to play players in different positions is if substitutions are limited.[/quote]

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