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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ball hogs tend to burn out. We score based on coach evaluations and teamwork; a kid who is a clueless pain and doesn't pass isn't going to do very well.[/quote]

We have a kid like this on our team. Absolute standout when he was 7-8, when he was your typical ball hog who would dribble the entire opposing team and score almost every time. Everyone treated him as the superstar and the kid developed into never passing the ball and the defenders eventually figuring him out and his scoring success dropping dramatically. Now whenever he loses the ball, he either fakes a foul or starts crying (usually when we are playing a more competitive team and are falling behind). He still thinks he is much better than everybody else and all the other kids dislike him for that and will always pass to someone else if they have options. The coach does not address it because he is buddies with the dad, who is as popular among the parents as his son among the kids. It is pretty sad because the kid actually seems talented, but there is no effort to develop him into a team player who can do something beyond getting the ball kicked to him from across the field (because he does not really move) to run for the goal.[/quote]

I mean yeah if a kid is still playing this way at age 10/11, it’s a problem. But truly, all little kids in rec at age 6/7 play this way because a kid who is ready to try out for travel soccer at that age, and is playing his last year of rec, isn’t playing with kids who recognize field awareness and stuff. No one is going to go get open in front of the net for him. If they do, they won’t be able to control the ball off of his pass consistently. Because they’re little kids. So they learn if they want to score, they need to do it themselves.

These kids , if they are coached right and coachable, develop the other aspects of the game (like passing!) once they’re on a team of similarly athletic kids who they can trust to receive their passes or get open when needed.

Clearly the kid you’re talking about either wasn’t coached or wasn’t coach able.

But for the first year of travel tryouts, the good kids are ball hogs because that’s the only way they can really play and have fun in ULittle Rec. They can’t pass to little Timmy watching the clouds who is their partner on offense in 4v4.[/quote]

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