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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Specializing in goalie too early stunts the required technical skills with the feet that modern gk's need at higher levels.

goalies that don't have ability to play with their feet, limit their potential drastically at higher levels.

and you don't get enough touches under pressure with you feet at the crucial development periods of 8-14 if you are playing in gk all the time. [/quote]

Yes, agree with this.

Even for kids who want to play goal, and thus do so a lot at younger travel ages, have something of a disadvantage.

Similar experience with Girls travel (stoddert) - U9 basically everybody played a half during the season, some did a couple or three times.  U10 a smaller set of girls took turns playing, again only a half.  U11 they started giving more regular turns to a couple of players.  U12 one girl played GK almost all the games.  I think this basically reflected the philosophy of the club.  They didn't even have specific GK tryouts until U11, when they did to try to make sure teams all had someone.[/quote]

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