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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Age matters. Before u13 coaches teach and praise passing in practice but in the end aggressive goal scoring 'wins games' at the younger ages so that's what's focused on. After that if your kid can move the ball with ease it's much more important.

However, if you have a one/two touch passer that does next to nothing else on the field from lack of confidence then no, they will never be valued because they are deficient in a whole half of the game. 1v1 is heavily done in younger ages for a reason. If you can't/refuse to beat an attacker or play 1v1 defense your not built for elite soccer.[/quote]

We played Arlington u11 #2 team, and GFR #1 teams, they out passed us 4 times to 1 easily. They clearly value passing instead of dribbling.  Our club doesn't stop dribbling efforts at u11 to in order to develop youth players.  Nothing wrong with either approach, only passing vs freedom to dribble boat teach the players different valuable skills. But as PP above mentioned, at u13 that should significantly change and the emphasis should be more on passing.    [/quote]

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