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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.

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What separates the best from the rest often comes down to the intangibles - the attitude and willingness to work hard every day and fight through pain and boredom of doing the same thing thousands of times. These kids do whatever it takes to both improve themselves and have the drive to win games. When that kid gets into a club that has the structure and supportive coaching environment, the sky is the limit.[/quote]

We live in an era during which repetition is considered the path to boredom instead of the path to mastery.

My own experience, when I was coaching girls in my area, was that the developmental stages that happen starting around 12 years of age have it such that a girl with great aptitude who was happy to move the ball on her own when she was 10 and 11 now needs social currency to make it happen so that FOMO (fear of missing out) doesn't get in the way. So, if we repackage their one on one training to be training with their favorite (and similarly capable) teammate, they are more enthused. The girl that was happy to watch an NWSL game on TV with her dad at the age of 11 now finds that to be uninteresting; but if you make it a viewing party with her favorite teammate's family, she watches with enthusiasm in order to comment in a way that makes her socially relevant to the gathering.

And so on.

My view is that the club provides a stage to perform on. A more successful club (i.e. stage that matters to more people and is watched with more frequency) is better than a rinky dinky one. But just lke the actor who doesn't work on memorizing and putting expression into "his lines" finds the big stage to be a source of potential embarrassment, so does the player who thinks it suffices to just go to practice and play in games. Thus, if a child responds well to going beyond the bare minimum by our helping them feel less isolated and more synchronized with like-minded players who want to stand out, I think it's worth our effort as parents to look into doing that.[/quote]

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