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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]is it your experience that defenders and goalies have communication issues?

Frustration coming from DC that instructions are ignored ... for example, telling defender to play wide or carry ball and it is played back with opponent bearing down. Then when mistake is made, the defenders complain.

Suggestions on ways to improve? Is it true that defense should always be deferring to goalie on how she/he wants them to play? Like asking to mark player and then defender decides to give space, leading to unmarked players in box.[/quote]

Based on my observation, I see this with full time goalies that didn't get enough field experience.  I'm hoping the coach chimes in but i really have a hard time seeing a specialized goalie below U13, they just don't have the field experience needed to communicate effectively.  In fact, I've seen them give the completely wrong instruction.  [/quote]

We have this on our team.  The goalie is very vocal (u12) and will yell at defenders---even when defenders are doing exactly what the coach tells them to do.  Then, if things go wrong, goalie's dad blames the defense.  Well--actually everybody blames the defense no matter how poorly the offense is doing and not chasing back.  Par for the course.[/quote]

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