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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Agree on all the points made above. But is being in a team the only way to develop decision making and speed of play? Can it be substituted with small group training, pickup games, camps, etc., until a certain age?[/quote]

And much of this is what a team should provide. A team IS a small group. League and tournament games are pickup games.

Soccer is a team sport and the actual game element of the sport can only be learned by playing games. Small group training only provides skill based but rarely any tactical training. In spite of what many may say kids can learn the tactics of the game at a young age, but the emphasis is generally geared more towards the technical skill that allow the kids to even execute the most basics of tactics.

It is generally best to enhance team training with all the things you mention, small group, individual and pickup games. But to rely on a patchwork of training as the basis, that is a bad idea. [/quote]

Don’t disagree. However, kids in the states starting their soccer careers from as early as u6 in a team environment (or u9 considering serious travel), with DA counting towards 12th year, that’s good chunk of team training. What’s missing then? US hasn’t been able to produce a single true world class player till this day. Maybe CP will be the first?[/quote]

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