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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your player develops outside the game.  Watch the video in the first post. The games are part of what hurts development, according to the podcast.[/quote]

Every top academy in Europe uses match play as a significant portion of the daily and weekly development. Both in practice and in competition. Soccer is learning in completion, not against cones.

What the podcast / YouTube was critiquing is that in the US we make the games mean more for the individual player than they should. We fail to make matches and games a development environment opposed to a permanent “tryout” environment. In short, we suck the joy out of a sport and replace it with added pressure.[/quote]

You are smoking crack if you actually think the European academies aren't a permanent tryout environment.  These places are cutthroat.  They are trying to be the best and like 1% will ever make it to the first team. These kids are in competition with each other. The difference is the coaching staff knows what to look for--understands child/player development. But, make no mistake, it's cutthroat.  There are 1,000s upon 1,000s of kids that want your spot in that academy.  [/quote]

If that’s true, (I’m not saying it is) the the entire argument made against the US systems vs European systems collapses. Everything is predicated on “looking at the long term development” in Europe vs “short term focus” in the US…[/quote]

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