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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you have a quest for an injured kid from overuse,  why go after HS + MLS Next?[/quote]

Does a 17-year-old kid playing for HS + club have more practice/playing time, and more "overuse", than a 17-year-old kid playing for a professional soccer club? How about those kids who attend MLS "academies" (e.g., Philadelphia Union) where the school is integrated into the soccer academy -- do they train less than a kid playing HS + club?  [/quote]

There is a high occurrence of injuries in HS soccer because of factors including over reliance on physicality training at high volume being run by unqualified coaches.

Is that happening at 7am at Philly Union to be followed by evening training sessions not coordinated with the morning sessions? 4-5 days a week plus HS game and 2 MLS Next games weekly?
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I legitimately don't know which is why I posed the question. There are high school teams that do, in fact, practice at 7am before school due to limited field size. Is it necessarily overuse for a high school kid who sits around all day between 8:30 - 3:30 to then also play more soccer (practice or game) in the afternoon or evening?

MLS Next teams I'm familiar with around here practice 4x week for 90 minutes, with one or sometimes two games per weekend (where if your kid is the star he'll play all 90 minutes, otherwise say 45 minutes); that's about 6.5 hours of soccer each week.

I'm not saying that there is no risk of overuse or that the rougher nature of HS soccer isn't a factor. But in terms of sheer quantity of training time for a healthy teenager who loves soccer, 6.5 hours of playing per week seems underwhelming, and I wonder how it compares with what teenage soccer players are doing in far more successful soccer cultures than ours. 
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You do realize that your mls next kid chose to play year-round soccer for that club.  My kid chose ECNL so they could play hs soccer. There is overuse with playing club and hs and then there's that thing called homework.  [/quote]

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