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[quote=Anonymous]The responses in this post is why you have to simply keep your head down in America.

Technical training is almost exclusively what a kid should be focused on until U14/U15.  It is akin to learning a 2nd language as a toddler.  You can layer on physicality and tactics later.  You train technically and then games are tests of the training to see how good you are under pressure.  You will have to put your head down and endure possibly losing, possibly not being on a first team or dealing with parents and coaches who want the ball to leave your feet every single solitary moment because they just don’t know enough about football development.  The most technical players I have seen state-side know when the pass and dribble but that is a result of coaching and allowing a kid to fail at dribbling through a team.  Development involves failure.  The US culture of winning hurts development.

Ideally, most technical training should be at home or small informal groups.  If you don’t know what you are doing, it is okay to attend those training sessions and learn but over the long term, you are losing hours to the quiet silent types who can get in 2k touches just during a typical I-495 commute.  Typically, all of the U10-U13 IG All-Stars are going to quietly fade away as the kids who spend an hour a day on a wall, juggling and ball mastery without posting to IG will surpass them at U15-U18.

It’s been documented.  Not sure why we keep doing the same things wrong.[/quote]

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