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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've seen this a lot.

On the girls' side, at older ages, it often is just a result of how girls grow at different rates around 12-16 or so. Usually a girl playing up at that age group is just playing with people that are physically her peers. My guess is most people watching the game would not be able to pick out the girls playing up.

On the boys' side, though, it almost always sucks for everyone except the family of the boy who thinks that their kid is the next Messi. Usually what happens is a boy will be able to dribble past kids in his age group and score lots of goals. So he will get moved up - either because the parents ask for it or the coaches decide. But then he is on an older age level and he [b]still thinks that he is the dribbling king and he still plays as if he is the best kid on the team, which he isn't anymore. Instead he is just like a black hole where team passing moves die. The younger kids almost always make bad decisions and are way too selfish, but once they get moved up they tend to stay up, and once they have that habit they tend to keep it.[/b] So their teammates are stuck with a kid who hurts the team and actually drags the team down. But the kids' parents think he is awesome because he still dribble and shoots a lot, and the coaches just rotate him on the wing and don't ever correct his mental game. [/quote]

I completely agree with fish bolded above.  Players like that are 100% in it for themselves. Those parents are putting together highlight reals for their kid showing all  the positive on field stuff.  Can't blame the parents, but players like that (we have 3 like this) are just using the team to work on their own skills.  The only win-win is when they move on and the team dynamic returns to normal.  With ours, there is no beautiful soccer that is played...just ball hogging with the 1 out of 8 tries that is amazing.  But, to the OP point.  When players like this are allowed to play up and showboat, it can be done so to the detriment of the rest of the team.  [/quote]

Newsflash 
All the kids should be focused on developing their own individual skills

Team isn't their job, it's the coach's
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Soccer is a team sport though and if you never learn how to pass the ball and work with your team mates, you will never turn into the Messi you think you are. Wasting opportunities trying to score when you could have easily passed to a team mate who was wide open in perfect position to score also won’t make you popular with your team. We have a kid like that on the team and it came to a point that the others avoid passing to him if they have another option. [/quote]

Again, that's the coaches job to deal with team 
Kids should focus on their own development, which by the way,  includes decision making

Skillful kid can be taught the ways of passing later
Passing hot-potato kid can't be taught skills later[/quote]

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