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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the girls side, speed and size work like this. It allows you to make many mistakes and recover. So you have a bad touch. You receive a ball and it goes 10 feet away from you. If the closest defender is 20 feet away, you have just created a 50/50 ball. The player who is the fastest, strongest and most aggressive will win the ball. Select for those type of players.

A player with a good touch, vision and technical skills will pass the ball to the open player. Passing the ball is seen as non aggressive. An aggressive player will put their head down and dribble.

A player(specially early on) with good touch and vision really gets you nothing. You need two or three to have an impact. So most coaches will select a fast aggressive player over a fast player with touch and vision.

At the u littles, very few players have a good touch, vision and technical skills. The ones who do are odds balls. These players do not fit in.

In the older age groups within a range, top teams are fairly equal in size and straight line speed. Now touch, vision and technical skills matter(because this allows faster speed of play) but you have been selecting for 5-6 years for speed and aggression. This selection happens in middle school before puberty.

Touch and vision is like speed. You either have it or you do not. It is very important for the later year(lol 16 years old ...later years), but not used as selected criteria in the younger years. [/quote]

This is a very true and insightful post. Unfortunately, my 2008 DD has good first touch, technical skills and vision but doesn’t have blazing speed. You’re right about having at least 2-3 other players with good skills for it to be effective. Players that are not in position, don’t get open and/or doesn’t have a good first touch impacts the rest of the team. But the most frustrating thing is when a player just aimlessly kicks the ball as hard as they can and then some parents (and her parents) would yell out “good kick”. LOL.

Passing a ball to an extremely aggressive player is like passing to a black hole though. This type of player typically put their heads down and just dribble the ball and eventually looses it. This is frustrating for the rest of the team and sometimes causes resentment.

I don’t necessarily agree with “Touch and vision is like speed. You either have it or you do not.” I think this can be learn with practice while pure speed is hereditary. I also think a player with good skills & vision sometimes don’t use their speed as much due to them constantly looking for an open player to pass instead of putting their heads down and just dribble the ball away. [/quote]

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