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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So basically you’re both saying its not skills development for the Bs, it’s more physical and roster increase.

Sadly, i also think there is a ceiling in what foot skills can do without adequate speed/strength in development, especially for girls. I dont know how you overcome that, realistically.

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No, that is not what I implied at all. What I implied is that a B team starter is more likely to actually develop in soccer ways over the A team bench player. While training with the A team in theory should help the A team bench player the reality is there is likely very little that separates the A team kid form the B team kid. But, given a good environment and far more playing time the B team starter can easily pass the A team Bench player. Keep in mind that rosters are small at the young ages. If you look at a U9 A/B team as a eventual 11v11 player pool good training and playing is more important than which group of kids your kid is paired with.

The back end of A teams are filled with squeaky wheels who are no better than their B team counterparts. Most player pools are similar to a Bell Curve. Out of 20 kids you have your top 5, your bottom 5 and everyone else is packed in the middle, separated only by a coaches early hunch. The line that separates kid 10 from 11 is razor thin. [/quote]

At that age u9-u11, there should not be much difference in playing time. Most places are playing everyone the same amount and rotating all players through all positions. Now in the later years when everyone has a position and has to fight for playing time, it more important to get playing time. [/quote]

I did see your comment before it was taken down. Sorry, but there is a difference in playing time, even at U9. That difference only increases as the kids get older. But that is one of reasons why B and C teams exist, to ensure that kids have an opportunity to play as much as possible. But A team parents are generally loath to take the "demotion" for the benefit of their kid and in return their kid gets to sit more and more each year while the top couple of kids on the B team are playing and improving. The A team is often over rostered in many clubs simply to retain kids who are still good but would certainly leave if placed properly on a B team. But a 7v7 U9/10 team with a roster of 12 kids does not spell either equal or meaningful playing time. If your 7v7 U9/U10 team has 10 kids then yes, playing time is generally equal. [/quote]

NP.  I guess no one took the hint.  Move on or take it to a different thread.  This one is specific to girls soccer.  We get both of your points!  Enough.  [/quote]

+1 . . . . i agree with this too[/quote]

So on a girls soccer team there is a A and B team comprised of girls. Some of these girls are very similar in skill to their girl soccer teammates who all play soccer together with and as girls. Sometimes the girls on the girls soccer B team (the "B" does not stand for "b**" but means the second team of the girls soccer team.)

If you have 20 girls on this girls soccer team, that we are speaking of in a thread dedicated to Girls Soccer, about 5 girls are really good and 5 girls are clearly not as good. That leaves about ten girls, on this all girls soccer team, to be of similar talent. This is of course very different than soccer played by the other gender which shall not be named here. [/quote]

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