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

Not to mention, not really responsive either, just typical “Europe is better IMO, so I’m going to make up something insane and post it.”[/quote]

So in Europe and South America they don't have quality experienced coaches coaching  younger age groups?

Are you saying they follow the American model of using inexperienced basically babysitters to coach U6 to U10?[/quote]

I think maybe the reality is that in the U.S., the best coaches are in older age groups and the advice is just to accept that and work on ways to get better at those earlier ages despite the poor coaching.

I actually agree with you that the coaching at those ages are important but more so at u12-u14.

I don’t think it’s productive for coaches to bombard kids with technical stuff and drills and intensity until they clamor for it and are ready for it. So at U-10 and under, coaches should just fostering a love of the game which includes competitiveness and creativity and just letting them play with little actual coaching in games. The need to watch pro games should
also be introduced already. This is a great time to develop good and organic instincts with the ball while playing.

U-10-U13 is then a good time to perfect and hone technical skills (this is obviously good all career long) plus other things of course, and be introduced to more intensity if that is what the players desire.

This has been DS path. We’ve really lucked out with coaches who gave DS what he needed at the right times. At U12 and above, the quality of your team becomes almost as important and that’s when many choose to move clubs when players want to be on more competitive teams.

Finally, I think this is rarely touched upon but consistency of coaching and methodology is very important. We are at a small club where we know what the coaching is going to be like all the way though the older age groups. It boggles my mind that families don’t even know who the coach will be when they join the team and whether the club has an overall methodology consistently implemented at all levels and ages.

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I should have said U6 to U14

You're right

Granted the education and development is normally tiered in phases U6-U8, U9-U11, U12-U14 or thereabouts

That said, we here need to place more focus on coaches for these foundation and early development stages being more qualified, experienced and knowledgeable [/quote]

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