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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This isn't wrong, but it is pretty selfish.  Sometimes the best development path for your own kid is to also be extremely selfish.  In the presence of a single ball hog, other parents will start advising their kids to also ball hog.  The ball hogs will move up and learn to pass, and the current passers will stay on crappy teams.  [/quote]

I’m going to assume the ball hog refered to by the OP is not very good. That is, they are trying to develop/hone their individual skills during game time and prob not doing much outside of game time.

Because most players don’t really complain about a ball hog that is more successful than not because parents and kids like to win.

My kid was a ball hog. Played striker for years and was never coached at all on what to do with the ball. But no one complained because they were effective. And they were effective because they practiced their passing, dribbling,  juggling on their own time whenever there were no games or practices and also watched pro soccer all the time so eventually learned when to pass, take on a 1v1 or dribble
and carry, etc.

All of that a kid can do in their own time to get better (assuming they want to).

FWIW, my kid no longer plays striker because when they moved to a better team, the coaches could tell he had the skills and confidence to play any position. Being a ball hog was essential for them to develop the confidence to use skills they were learning on their own.

So I say work on your individual skills first before becoming a ball hog.[/quote]

Ball hogs and apparently thier parents too never think they do anything  wrong and think they are the only one that puts in the work and have the skills.   Most forwards want touches and don't just want to make run after run and never see the ball because no one ever tells their 'skilled ' teamate  to pass to  the open man.    If it was child that put in the work and never saw the ball you would think differently winning or not.[/quote]

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