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

Do we really need more kids in soccer? The amount of travel soccer teams in the area is already unbearable. What's wrong with a country liking more than one sport? I think it must be boring to live in a country where only one sport is played competitively.
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This is the problem with the US. The traveling team model does not develop players. It cost a lot of money(hotel, travel etc.) and time. The Europeans start development at 11 to 12 and it's a full time job.[/quote]

This point is made in the NY Times article about the Ajax Academy in the Netherlands. Our "travel" model here focuses too much on developing a winning team (when who really cares if your child's team wins a tournament at Disney World?) and not enough on focused, rigorous development of the individual player. Way too much time is spent  sitting in cars driving to tournaments and games instead of doing footwork drills, playing small-side games, and even working on other sports requiring similar skills (tennis for the footwork, gymnastics for the strength, agility, and flexibility).[/quote]

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