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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She will never be able to catch up even if she was natural gifted. What happens at u12(and younger) is the girls are put in to a field position that best suits their abilities. 
If you are not good with the ball the coach will not want you having the ball a lot. The players becomes a roll players usually tied to a physical trait- physicality or speed. They will usually be placed in a forward or defensive roll. 
The skilled players will receive the ball more and develop with the exception that they get the ball in games. The non skilled players will told to play their roll and get the ball to the skill players.

Most of girls/women soccer is about physical play and speed. Have her workout and put on muscle. [/quote]

This is total BS. “High level” youth soccer in the US is low on technical ability. If she is willing and able to put in 30-40 minutes of quality skill work every day on her own outside of practice, working with intensity and staying engaged, she can still become a very good player. I coached a few players that were rec level at 10/11 and, 10 yrs later, were playing in college. One signed a pro contract at 20.[/quote]

Sure. She is suddenly going to take over games with her technical skill and passing abilities? The kids who came late or like most are limited technically have to be really good athletes and fast. That is all you need to play college. They are roll players usually on defense or maybe striker, their game is very limited. College soccer is not really a high level so these type of player fit right in.[/quote]

At the start of your post, you insinuate that she can’t develop enough technically and by the end you are insinuating she may fit right into college soccer. Uh, the OP was asking about playing through HS, not starting as the number 8 for Real Madrid.

You can knock college soccer - and it certainly is usually ugly and has lots of faults - but the reality is this area has about 1 youth player every year or two who is actually able to bypass that level and launch a legit pro career, and many of them, frankly, aren’t especially technical players…because the US youth system is very poor at developing technical ability, and it’s not particularly hard for a late convert to narrow  the gap. [/quote]

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