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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In a perfect world, we would have kids getting time with a couple of different age groups. The entire being tied to a particular age group thing is ridiculous. European clubs often group two or three years together. And bio-banding is an excellent initiative when it is implemented and not used for competitive advantages so that insane adults can try to win trophies. The last two years of ECNL are lumped together anyway to allow for that collective recruiting process. Stop relying so much on clubs for kids' soccer development. They don't give a crap about your kid.  Make it about a third of their youth soccer experience in addition to pickups with similarly skilled or more skilled players and private trainings with a coach who is going to instill discipline, work ethic, and game knowledge. [/quote]

At what ages do European clubs band age groups together? Never heard of that before [/quote]

Europe does stuff a bit differently country by country. Forget biobanding and RA and all that stuff for a second, what many European countries do really well is use the 4-corners model for tracking player development.

That rubric is 100x better at forming competitive groups than how we do it in the US with the “eye test” or the “his older brother is really good though” tests. Even in top competitive leagues in the teen years, with the IDPs etc we do poor bench-marking and development planning. And as a result we produce robots that play a version of soccer that their US trapped coach thinks soccer should be played like, often with position specific body phenotypes that make any adjustment in the face of soccer’s fluidity harder.[/quote]

Abstract Gobbledygook [/quote]

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