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[quote=Anonymous]Unless your club/coach are setting other goals for a competition and rewarding based on that, why wouldnt all coaches want to win? You are out there playing to win, whatever your strengths/weaknesses. It’s how you go about it that differentiates. Machiavelian, perhaps not the greatest strategy in youth soccer, but if the clubparent expectation is to be “winning”, that club will probably have no problem succeeding, especially in this area. There is nothing wrong with that if thats the goal. That culture could foster development of certain players. Maybe they are looking for 4 to 5 A type aggressive physical 8-10 years old that bring it and can become tekkers and IQ’d too by u12. Instant gratification isnt always the worst. The quick feedback cycle and adjustment is a staple of development.

The bigger picture is that culture and fit at certain times of players “career” period is a poor one. Its the constant clash of social v recreational v competitive tracks. We constantly talk about these eceptional athletes coming into soccer later as if that is something common. Most likely those kids are phenomenal athletes, transitioning common strategies/tactics from other activities. Imagine what they could have been if they had started earlier. But we’d rather say they are equal or better than a diluted pool of players on teams that couldnt “really” choose their top 11. No wonder its doable, we’ve created and maintaining low expectations for most of the players because some clubs just dont have enough of the players that have the appropriate complements of qualities they’d want at their to teams and instead of having the players in appropriate levels, like house b select, clubs are happy to take the parents money and deal with the fallout however disgruntled the players/parents are by unmanaged expectations.

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