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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At U12 DC1 had a top team coach who was focused a lot on competition, technical skills, conditioning and strategy. Little down time, little emphasis on teamwork. Some players sat on the bench the whole season.

At U12 DC2 had a coach really focused on development of core technical skills and softer skills like sportsmanship and was just a really nice coach and a good person to be around with. Everyone played although some much more than others but no one sat out whole games.

Which one is "good"? I think you'd get a lot of different answers from different people. [/quote]

Both of them sound like crap to me.

I would look for a coach who focuses on tactics and decision-making + knows what those things actually are.

As for the rest - all players need to play, but nothing else really matters all that much.
[b]- a coach who focuses on technical skills is largely wasting his time - kids need to learn that on their own - especially if they're already on a top team where they need to spend way more time on it than can be carved out of team practices to really improve [/b]
-  competitiveness and sportsmanship are both good things to encourage
-  being nice is better than being nasty
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That kind of thinking is why US youth soccer sucks. Players certainly need to spend a ton of time on their own, but they also need a lot of guidance and correction on technical details and defects. Watch an “elite” US youth game and you’ll see players with glaring technical defects. [/quote]

100% this[/quote]

To the PP’s credit, I don’t think no technical coaching was envisioned, only that it’s no longer the focus at very top levels.

Of course, a coach should always be correcting technique or preaching mastery but I assumed that was a given. I guess not?[/quote]

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