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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]

No doubt -- Barca's style is terrific. [b]Rondos are great teaching tools, no matter what a U.S. Soccer bureaucrat says. [/b]But keep expectations reasonable. A so-so athlete or someone with mediocre coordination can do 10,000 hours of rondos and still not be an effective soccer player. 
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U.S. Soccer is negative about Rondos?  I had not heard that.  Please give more background on this.  I thought everyone had bought into Rondos and was surprised that they were not utilized much by our team this past year.[/quote]

DC's own Charles Boehm has done a lot of reporting on this:

https://ussoccerplayers.com/2018/05/us-soccer-coaching-education-and-the-strange-case-of-the-war-on-rondos.html

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/other/coaching/soccerwire-qa-going-deep-on-coaching-ed-with-ussfs-tschan-russell/

The issue is that rondos are not "directional" and therefore aren't "reality-based."

I'm not an expert on coaching technique, but I think the USSF position flunks the "duh" test ...

1. Players need to develop a first touch and learn to receive passes. Duh. No coaching expertise needed to know that.

2. Effective passes may go backwards as well as forwards. Duh, again.[/quote]

Wow.  The US Soccer guys talk all around it but it does sound like they are anti-rondo.  Shocking.  Heck what do Cruyff and Guardiola know anyways.  There are so many things that can be learned and taught in Rondos.  To expand on your #1, I think Rondos help develop the good footwork required for the passing game better and faster than anything else.  With good Rondos the players get such a high number of reps of passing and receiving under pressure in game like conditions.  Yes at a certain point I suppose you can get carried away with it but it is such a valuable drill.  I have heard that Man City still does some 5v2 Rondos in practice.  [/quote]

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