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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be honest, it's rare to hear of a physically dominant player like that being held back or not selected because of needing more technical skill.  I'd say that's a sign of someone giving an honest evaluation.  It's often the other way around where more physically dominant players (regardless of gender) get picked instead.

On the boys side, it is far more common to see the big physical players promoted with a goal of "teaching" the technical skill.  That's ok at the U-little ages.  But once you get to U14 and up, they have what they have in terms of technical ability.  That's why many boys teams (especially in HS) play longball.

Overlooking the technically sound, high soccer IQ players who aren't fast or big is a far more common problem.[/quote]

This.  My second team trapped DD has received feedback about her toughness and physicality.  Privately (to us) coaches have also implied her size is a factor.  We are at that fun age  where some have hit puberty and others are still years away.  She’s also now going from middle of the age group to young.

It sucks but at the end of the day, we are appreciative of objective feedback of things to improve and it helps for her to have concrete reasons why they felt she wasn’t ready and give her something to work towards.  We try not to compare her to the girls who were chosen instead bc ofc, sometimes it makes no sense and it just makes us crazy.  [/quote]

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