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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]

Every club’s website, in addition to saying “the premier club in (area),” claims to develop players’ skills like this.

I’d love to see one just be honest and say they’re only interested in fast players and big players so they can win U-13 State Cups. [/quote]

I don't think the problem is dishonesty.  I think all clubs genuinely want to develop players.  The problem is that teaching soccer is not especially easy.  The best coaches
1.  have a good football brain which usually, although not always, results from having been coached and having played professionally themselves.
2.  Know how to teach (and how to teach soccer, although the latter part is easier than the former).
3.  Have patience and are willing to stick with the plan when it costs games.
4.  Have enough leadership ability that they can carry the team (and parents) with them in the early stages of development when they will lose games ugly.

Not many coaches have all those skills.  Every coach my DS has ever had attempted to teach the kids to play the way I described.  They all stood up and gave a presentation indicating that this was their intent, and describing how they would achieve it.  They all ran practices with lots of small space, possession passing and small-sided games.  Maybe they liked rondos, or maybe they bought into the rondos-are-no-good-you-need-to-play-directional-soccer school of thought.  But many of them couldn't teach, or they didn't have patience, or they couldn't lead, or whatever - the result was not what anyone had hoped for.  Not because they wanted not to play this way - but because they couldn't do it.

It's also worth pointing out that teaching kids to play this way requires that they all have a level of technical ability to start with.  The best coach in the world could not stroll into the coaching job with a typical club's 2nd or 3rd team and make this work - because too many of the kids simply would not be able to execute.  And playing this requires not just understanding and decision making - it requires the kids to be able to correctly execute what they are being asked to do well over 90% of the time.  And not just some of the kids - all of them.  If there are even two or three kids on the team who only complete 50%-60% of their passes then you can't play this way.  Everything breaks down.

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