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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]so let me understand, you opinion is a bad club typically has a curriculum or a style of play that they work toward teaching?  is that what you are saying?[/quote]

it depends on the style. Coaching young kids to kick and run- which will win a lot of games at that age if you have a couple of fast strikers with reasonable ball skills isn't good for anyone. On the other hand, coaching possession take a while to click and may not get the results parents want right away.  [/quote]

and if a player is a playmaker, he'll want to get the ball at his feet and run at the back line.  by forcing a style of play, much like relying a style of play, you are stymieing the growth of the player.  good coaches can connect with the player and maximize the game[/quote]

Single style clubs tend to squash player creativity - they want kids to execute rote patterns and approaches. Instead of forcing kids to play a style let them discover the pros and cons of different styles. I am constantly seeing kids at the older ages conditioned to only build out of the back or only go direct. [b]The clubs have failed these players because they have been blindly taught only one approach - whatever their club said was the ‘right’ way to play the game.[/b] The trend is now possession (because tika taka was too hard). Any serious student of the game knows that possession is important at some phases of a game but an absolute disaster in other phases. If your club says this is the only way to play, your kids development is being stunted. [/quote]

Yeah, I guess that's why all those players who've come through the academies at Barca and Ajax through the years suck so bad.  Thankfully they have geniuses like you to show them the way.

It's true there are many different ways to play the game, but at the youth level just about every top pro academy in the world tries to stick to one style when teaching the game.  Even if their professional teams play differently, all of the teams in the academy will play the same style - the coaches are all on the same page.

If you can find an example of a professional academy espousing your belief that mixing it up and teaching different styles of play from year to year is a benefit to youth development, please post it here.  [/quote]

If you believe the professional academies are teaching a single style of play, you are quite mistaken. In fact, much of the time spent in professional youth academies (during league play) is spent on working on counters and shifts in style. [b]We would spend weeks specifically working on how we changed our style given different opponents and situations[/b][u]. If you believe that anything local looks at all like a professional youth academy, you are also quite mistaken. There is nothing local that looks remotely like a professional youth academy, let alone a Barca or Ajax. So let’s avoid any confusion that such an academy is even in the current region. Please post feel free to post any support about how professional clubs only play one style.[/quote]

This gave me a good laugh I needed.  To think DCUM and its readers have been blessed with someone so involved and active in Professional Academies.  Who knew?  Yet somehow we cant find a good coach i'm told.  Seems we have found the savior to US Soccer right here on DCUM in this thread.  Please sir, show yourself.  Do not remain anonymous.  Tell us who you are so we can marvel at your credentials and raise you to the throne you deserve high atop the US Soccer mountain.

Give me a break[/quote]

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