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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]idk. my kid was a major ball hog for years and her coach never really stopped her. I'm glad though in retrospect because she developed incredible ball handling skills. she moved clubs at 13 and had to learn a whole different way of playing. her new coach loved her skills but was able to teach her when and where to dribble and show her skills. [/quote]

I think this is the concern others have - the ball hog is hogging most of the development.  So at 13 their kid can't make a better team as they've been sitting around watching another kid dribble for years.  If everyone tells their kid to be a ball hog, there's no passing at all.  Then it comes down to who recovers the ball from the other team defensively.  Everyone wants to recover it, and now we're playing bunch-ball like 5 year-olds.[/quote]

If you are giving this much credit to a players ball-hogging for your child’s potential ability to make a better team at 13, you are completely focusing on the wrong thing.

Your 13 will not make a better team not because of the coaches “team tactics” or another players ball hogging, its their lack of technical skill.  Before 13, focus on individuals skills and learning to use it in a game. Have you thought that the ball hog doesn’t want to pass to other players bc all the other players have shitty touches?[/quote]

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