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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the fashion now for coaches who come from other sports.  This one-on-one play really only comes into play at the higher youth levels on the wing.  If your boy is playing that particular position then by all means focus efforts there.

Otherwise having a technical but undersized player [boy] is an issue for American soccer. No amount of training one-on-one without size and athleticism will work.  Full stop.  Nevermind Modrich.  Or Iniesta.  Or for goodness sake the great Lionel.

I’ve seen it repeatedly on my son’s team.  Extremely technical but undersized in American soccer - gets you on reserve team.  Sad fact. Even if you ball out.

If you’re paying a part of your mortgage with a highly remunerated side gig like travel soccer and you may be shakey on knowledge and tactics - you want the players as Adonis as you can get (to cover, perhaps, your lack of soccer acumen).

Rant over.  To answer your question Howard U coach Gyau who runs pricey but effective clinics would do the trick for more reps.

Best of luck!  It’s a wild, unregulated world in travel sports!

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I would say that in my experience  beating players and speed/endurance is what that coach teaches mainly.  Why you see a lot of 1v1 drills and track and hill running at the clinics. This is mainly because that is what his game revolved around when he played and that is what he knows best. But brute force and speed, while a critical part of the game, is only one part of the game and everyone won't have blistering speed or elite power. There will always be someone faster than you and when that happens what will you have??  And if you spent your life looking at the sport through that lens, you will have a hard time seeing the other aspects of the game for what they are and for the value they bring.  Especially so for a youth player who is building his or her identity as a player. Unfortunately, if you need to learn the other finer aspects of football, as a center attacking mid, defender, CDM, you might need to go elsewhere to get those details.  Not everyone can teach all things or all positions and most coaches in our country teach what they knew as players best. Everyone needs to be able to be comfortable on the ball.  1v1 helps with that without question.  But if you're a defender for instance, I wouldn't be spending a ton of time on going at people because that isn't what your position demands.   Van Dijk will never be Mo Salah and vice versa.  No matter how much they train at the opposite position. There isn't a one size fits all model in football and those clinics are that.  You don't have a ton of time in this game and if you want to be truly elite, you have to be exacting about how you spend your time.  If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you will be just like everyone else.  Average.[/quote]

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