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[quote=Anonymous]Motor and Technique. A coach will always have a bias towards bigger players from my experience sometimes even if they literally play like they have two left feet (coaches love lefties) but after that smart coaches look for these two things.

Motor - effort, tenacity, fire, agression, mentality, competivness etc.... Motor is tough to teach so if you have a decent floor of skills  and have motor you will make a lot of teams.

Technique - playing with both feet, passing + receiving with both feet, opening up on the correct side, passing combinations, passing to the correct foot, body positioning to receive ball correctly etc... Coaches can spot this in the drills before the scrimmages in a matter of seconds. Rondos before you think you're even being evaluated is another. The scrimmages are there to see what the kid's motor is and how far along their technical abilities are in action. Technique is easy to teach but has to happen before u-13. There always exceptions but before 11v11 you have to have a certain number of touches (think Gladwell's 10,000 hours) if you don;t get those touches its going to be hard to catch up when the fields becomes larger, and the game is more team centric.

So stop chasing W's u little parents and chase a coach who is uncompromising in their commitment to teaching your child technique. Cross your fingers for everything else cause its out of your control.[/quote]

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