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[quote=asksoccernova]The players that really lose out in large clubs are the ones that just missed the cutoff in playing for the best coach.

So, if a club has A/B/C/D teams and the same coach works with A&B and the other coach with C&D, you can bet that the A&B coach is better than the C&D one. The sign that a club is well-managed is when the difference in player development ability between the the #1 and #2 age group coaches is extremely small, or both are very good coaches in their own right. Teams at U9-U10 end up merging at U13 to form a single team, so in a decent club, the A/B coach is good and the C/D coach is also pretty good, because when the roster size expands to 18 and the "A" team needs another player or two, the first source of players is the "B" team, so those players need to keep developing. You never know which one of them will end up moving up to A later on from 12-18 years old, and some will, inevitably.

The problem is that good coaches who know their stuff want to coach a club's A/B teams and won't take a coaching position to work with C/D teams. Sometimes a club will just recruit another coach of an older age group within the club to coach C&D since he/she already has a primary team, its extra coaching hours, and they already have a proven reputation so parents know that their kids are being looked after and developed properly, AND that coach is happy and enthusiastic to take on the C&D team as part as their role at the club.

If there is a gap between the quality of coach #1 and #2 in the age group, the best player on C will miss out on a full year of better quality coaching and development progress just by a fraction of a rating on a player evaluation.

The teams should really be divided up according to where the "talent dropoff" is between groups of players, not just ranking them and dividing them into teams.

There are a lot of different ways to do it, some are better than others, and every club has their own way of doing it (there's no one right way to divide players up into teams)[/quote]

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