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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The coach is more important than the team [/quote]

This line gets repeated constantly in youth soccer…by clubs, parents, and influencers alike. It sounds smart. It feels developmental. But it misses reality by a wide margin.

As you move up the levels, you start to see it clearly.

That “amazing” U8 coach? There’s a reason they’re coaching U8.

That U11 coach working toward a UEFA B or USSF A…young, energetic, loved by the kids? Sure. But often still lacking the experience and perspective (on and off the field) to truly be elite.

The best coaches in the country don’t sit at the lower levels. They’re concentrated in the top tiers, U15 and up, and especially in the professional ranks. High-level coaches don’t stay with weak environments for long, if ever.

And here’s the part people ignore:

Teams are the constant.
Coaches are the variable.

Players develop together over years. Coaches cycle through in one to two year windows.

You can play a match without a coach.
You cannot play one without a team.[/quote]

This is that backwards unintelligent American soccer lack of culture thinking

Only here people think U8 coaches should be the worst least experienced coaches and the best coaches coach U19 and up

Go to Spain, Brazil, Holland, France and see the qualifications of U10 coaches at high level clubs

If your kid doesn't have knowledgeable, experienced good coach at early development stages teaching them the right fundamentals, how are they going to be high level at U16?

Under U15 age group it is mainly teaching, not coaching.[/quote]

Yep. U8 Coach Klopp…😂 what a weird response based nowhere in reality.[/quote]

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