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[quote=DCUdad][quote=bdubmd]My 10 year old son's MSI Classic team almost exclusively scrimmage during practice. Virtually no drills, no instruction. He loves his friends on the team and loves to play but he's definitely not learning anything new.  I'm not sure if we should supplement with individual coaching or find a new team.

Is this normal? What are your kids doing in practice? [/quote]
It maybe normal, but it is not good for development. Scrimmages, or more likely scrimmage-like drills, have a place. But especially for younger age groups, and especially if they practice only a couple times a week, most of their time should be on technical development. That doesn't just mean solo dribbling and touch, but passing, moving, receiving, defending, etc. As they get older, this can expand to more tactical development; but a lot of that is just more complex drills (which may increasingly look more like scrimmages).

But if your son's practices are mostly just unstructured scrimmages, that's really just recess or recreation -- which are fine if that's what you want. But it's not soccer training. And it's a sign that the coach either doesn't know what they are doing, or doesn't care that much.[/quote]

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