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[quote=Anonymous]Thoughtful response. Thanks for sharing.

[quote=Anonymous]I think kids seem to be able to play at a high level from a few points of development.

The 1st point is that the parents push, encourage and develop the players at a young age so they start out at a high level at a very good Club with a strong program.  The top kids I have seen mostly had crazy sports parents who had them master skills at an early age.  These kid were already on the top team at U9.

The 2nd point is that a lot parents have the resources (time, money, networking or inside connections) to pour into their kids development.  A lot of pre-ecnl kids have parents who were linked to professional sports or a parent played a sport at a high level, networks and send their kid to a lot of good training other families have never even heard of.   Friends of ours have a 23 year old kid playing professional in Portugal another has a kid playing at 22 in Iceland (moving to Australia soon) and both families invested well over $100k for all the soccer related training and equipment and travel to get their kids over the line.  (Never-mind the fact neither of them are making much money now as "professionals" is relevant.)

Point 3 is some kids are just gifted athletes who's physicality really started to shine after age 13.  Also their mindset was solid to become a pro.  It's one thing to bring your kid to all this training, but it will depend how bad they want it when HS rolls around to carry them forward and what kind of athlete they develop into.  No amount of skills training and weights will get them there if mentality and genetics are not on their side.

So, push them early, have the resources and hope you win the genetics & mental health lottery.

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