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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be honest, it's rare to hear of a physically dominant player like that being held back or not selected because of needing more technical skill.  I'd say that's a sign of someone giving an honest evaluation.  It's often the other way around where more physically dominant players (regardless of gender) get picked instead.

On the boys side, it is far more common to see the big physical players promoted with a goal of "teaching" the technical skill.  That's ok at the U-little ages.  But once you get to U14 and up, they have what they have in terms of technical ability.  That's why many boys teams (especially in HS) play longball.

Overlooking the technically sound, high soccer IQ players who aren't fast or big is a far more common problem.[/quote]

Yeah father of extremely technical but small (until late last year) boy scouted by two pros but clustered his youth career on second teams this would NEVER be said to a boy. You’re recognizing the reverse bias our child faced.

But I would tread cautiously. Remember in US it is a league built for coaches, not for player development. Our kids are pawns to D3 coaches on men’s side. They play what they know and that’s largely a counter-attack style in US on boys that wins games and keeps unknowing parent’s satisfied on Monday with the ‘win’.

Gaining technical skill is frankly getting late in age to acquire mastery (10,000 hour rule) by recruiting age 17. I might try to move.[/quote]

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