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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Style of play?  Kickball.  Direct as possible.  Back line and midfield?  Clear it forward as fast as possible.

Methodology?  Find big, fast players that can kick it far.[/quote]

Genuinely curious, why is this preferred and so common among US coaches?  It’s ugly as hell and kids don’t really develop.[/quote] because in US we have our best prospects (for at least boys) playing sports like football basketball and baseball.   those sports are getting the picks of the litter in terms of performance potential.

Ideally you want both technical and the physical.. but what you get are either small and slower technical kids or bigger faster kids.   On 11v11 pitch the bigger faster kids are just going win the battles.  Ie US soccer in a nutshell. [/quote]

So, hypothetically a young Luca Modric would not have made it on a a U11 big club top team in today’s DMV landscape? Hell even a young Pulisic. If that’s the case then what does that say about the product that consumers are forking over thousands of dollars for.[/quote]

Very possibly not. This goes beyond soccer, though, and the same thing is happening in basketball. The NBA commissioner (Adam Silver) and a number of players have spoken out about how the US has fallen behind in developing basketball players vs many other countries.

“Former NBA player Jason Richardson backed up Commissioner Adam Silver’s comments about the development of youth basketball in the United States. According to Richardson, who spent 14 years in the NBA, there seems to be a drastic change in how basketball development is being conducted in the United States, to the point that development programs outside of the United States are already miles ahead compared to them. Richardson blames the decline of youth development in the U.S. on four factors."Grassroots coaches, directors offended by Adam Silver’s comments yet don’t see how they’re part of the problem. Politics, controlled narratives, social media, and $$$ is what’s killing youth basketball. Can’t keep celebrating individual play and low basketball IQ. Develop your players!"

https://www.basketballnetwork.net/latest-news/jason-richardson-on-whats-killing-youth-basketball-in-the-united-states

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