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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP PP here! So we had our first tournament of the season over this weekend with our new coach. As previously mentioned, we just told her to listen to coach.

Our DD did well. The coach actually switched her to a Holding Center Mid Position which she payed most of the tournament. Only 2 of 6 goals were scored against her while playing that position. We only scored 4 goals over the weekend and DD had two of them from the time she did play striker. Despite the losses, she seemed happy and confident about the situation.

[b]It's an odd and an ironic situation. Most of the other players up top are selfish, hence the lack of offense. Will be interesting to see what the coach does moving forward as DD provided half the goals despite the little playing time up top.  [/b][i]

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I wouldn't expect much.  FWIW, in our experience in our travel club (smaller club, and DD is older than 11), selfish players are rewarded because the club seems to put a premium on ball skills and aggressiveness.  Our CMs and strikers dribble and dribble and dribble while the outside players and other mids are waiving their arms, wide open, then the girl with the ball loses it.  And the other girls are in the correct position - in space and ready to accept a pass at their feet or in space.  Soccer IQ seems to take a back seat to mediocre skills coupled with aggressiveness.  [/quote]

There are a tiny amount of Clubs that realize a kid that has skill but no soccer IQ or awareness will never be a great player.  They value a kid that instinctively knows when to pass v when to dribble.  Most of American coaches (even at the very highest level) do not see this. I have spent a lot of time talking to European coaches abroad about this very issue.  We select for completely different characteristics in the US which is why we can't get a men's team to qualify for the World Cup----add in politics and a requirement for kids to travel long distances and pay big $ just to be seen and it is a total and complete failure.  Beasley recently was quoted talking about the problem with lionizing players at the young ages like travel clubs around here...oh he is the best.ever. and he never gets knocked off the top team, no matter how shitty he ultimately develops....excuses are just made.  We don't invest in development.[/quote]

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