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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is why youth soccer in the US stinks. At age 7, you have a kid that is big and athletic. They are not only allowed but usually encouraged to take the ball, dribble, and score. They dominate the game and many teammates rarely touch the ball. When they do, they are told to get it to Bigfoot rather than try themselves. 
Fast forward a couple of years. This athletic kid has been nurtured and developed with more playing time, more coaching, and more encouragement. The smaller kids, or later-developing kids, have had little opportunity to develop individual ball confidence and are usually told to play and pass faster rather than take risks. The ball hogs lose the ball by age 12-13 nearly as much as they keep it but it is still ok for them to dribble up because they do it with the confidence that they are the best. Because they have been told this from age 7. It is a ridiculous system and totally limits a diverse talent pool. [/quote]

More than anything it keeps us from developing good defensive players.  They move to other sports where their strength comes in handy.  I blame the fact that we still have a lot of youth coaches who don’t really know the game and/or don’t know how to spot various kinds of talent. [/quote]

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