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Having watched a lot of club and HS soccer with 3 boys, HS soccer is just awful.  Technical talent is limited to the good club players, but speed and size are evenly distributed among the good and poor players, so the good players end up being hacked up constantly.  It's all long ball, because the players have no hope of possessing the ball more than a few passes.  [b]The coaching is poor,[/b] the reffing is poor, the fouling is nonstop - it is in general a very bad experience.  Would I still want my kids to play HS knowing all that?  Yes for all the other reasons metioned, but I would be much more tempered in my expectations.  [/quote]

Nail. Head.  You hit it.[/quote]

A comment on the coaching.  I think it takes a special kind of talent to coach HS soccer.  It's not club - you cannot just keep averaging up your team every year through tryouts (or try to anyway) as you can with club soccer.  You have to be able to get the most possible out of mixed pool of talent.  Even with recruiting, at best you will have 6 or 8 truly gifted players, and the rest will be kids that won't play soccer after HS.  How do you train and have a game plan with that mix of talent?  How do you take a kid in 9th grade that maybe has promise but no real training, and get him or her playing like the club players you have that have been focusing on soccer since U5?  That is the real trick to success at the HS level.[/quote]

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