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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^that is why a lot of great players don't show at these cattle call travel tryouts with just scrimmaging where nobody will give up the ball or pass.  They miss a helluva lot of talent.[/quote]

AMEN[/quote]

I hate it too.  At last year's travel tryouts my son does what he is told, and when he moved up quite a few fields, the coach told him to play defense.  He did as he was told, passed the ball up several times and played defense.  But since he wasn't being a ball hog and trying to score when he had the ball, they sent him back to a lower field.  He thought he was doing well, and it was painful to see his expression when he got sent back down not knowing what he did wrong.  F*^% Arlington.[/quote]

This happens all across the DMV.  They still look for spazzes and kids dribbling it into the ground, knocking other kids over.  "Activity" is confused with 'efficiency'.  American coaches still don't choose 'potential'.  They don't think in terms of development or actual field smarts with how a kid moves off the ball, where he plays it.  I can't tell you how many perfect assists/through balls one of my kid had at one of these tryouts---and they would write down the name of the kid that merely had to tap his toe to score from the receiving pass.  The kid "making it happen" does not get credit in this tryout scenario.  I saw kids that never amounted to anything in the scrimmage---had some ball moves but would repeatedly dribble it into the ground (this was an older age group too) and they would continually get moved up fields.  I saw goofy kids that some coach deemed as 'fast' get moved up and can't play at all.  We just got a 10-page evaluation, incredibly, incredibly thorough from character to technique to field iq to movement, etc.  each category many specific areas (such as dribbling with non-dominant foot, etc.)---not one mentioned physical speed. We previously had gotten a 1 page review from a big club at U9/U10 where the only categories were "physical strength, heading (wtf--u couldn't even head at that), speed, first touch".  Only the last one was even relevant.  This was a big CCL club.  All I can say is 'get used to it' or dig hard to find a place where this isn't the focus.

It's completely r*tarded.[/quote]

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