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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]... so I am not a D1 former player, but I played HS and have coached U4 -U8 for several years.  Coaching is not your answer.  It is parents ahead of the curve who seek out friends and put together strong teams.  Dhluh!

We have a 4 year old in our U5 Saturday session who can cruyff, stepover, scissor, and roulette, not to mention an outside cut beckenbauer or two.  Yippee.  What can your kindergartener do?  Why can't your kid neat the team of kids who can do this?  Cause her mom / dad and siblings do this crap with her, and they play together with other youngsters of soccer siblings and practice.  It is not hard to dominate K soccer.  What a stupid question.  Totally dumb thread. [/quote]

This. 100 times.

At ANY age, the kids with the most skill are going to be the ones who play a lot on their own. At U6, a coach who sees a team once a week isn't going to conjure up some magical improvement.  Give the best coach in the world a team full of kids who don't touch a soccer ball outside the weekly practice, and that coach isn't going to make much difference.

And at U6 especially, the early-blooming athletes are going to dominate. A kid who has lovely skill but isn't as fast as his peers (or doesn't have the leg strength to simply boot the ball across the field on the fly into the Pugg goal) isn't going to have much time and space to show those skills.

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