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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Listen, I'll be snarky for a minute - but it's really hard for both all players to play at least half the game AND for the best (or better) players play significantly more.  Unless you have a relatively tiny roster (14 or less on an 11v11 team), there's going to be haves and have nots.  I think that's important to make sure that spread happens at younger ages,  but I think where folks draw the line of when that shift should happen is individual.  Personally, I'd argue somewhere in the U12-U14 range is the right place.[/quote]

This just isn't true.

My DS' U16 team has a roster of 18 on gamedays (20 total - but injuries have meant this has not yet caused anyone to sit out when healthy).  That's two goal keepers and 16 field players.  The goalkeepers play a half each - always.  Games are 2x40 minutes so there are 800 minutes total available for the other sixteen players.  This is usually shared so that 5-7 players receive about 60 minutes and the remaining 9-11 players receive about 40-45 minutes each.  We have had one "important" game (out of probaby 15 or so games and scrimmages) so far this season and the only changes were that two of the players played the whole game, and two others received only about 25 minutes.[/quote]

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This can easily be done if the coach gives a s*@(. Some only care about winning and looking good to their club. It's not a way to develop players at this age and kids in this situation should demand their money back. I don't know of a big club director that would allow this at U14. [/quote]

Or at any age.

Arlington is arguably the top boys club in the DMV (and if you think BSC is the top club that's fine - I'm not picking a fight about that - the point is that Arlington's top teams are extremely successful).  On their top teams - right up to U19 - every kid plays at least half the game in 90% or more of the games they play.[/quote]

If I'm not mistaken Arlington actually rests players and not play them at all sometimes.  I have no idea how that is decided but I know my friend's son sat the entire game and I asked why and he said that it was his day to rest.  Maybe it's just because they have like 22 kids on the roster and bring up guest players sometimes.[/quote]

ECNL only allows 18 players to dress on game days and the Arlington teams have ~20 on the roster.  Most of the time this isn't a issue because of injuries - but if everyone is healthy then one or two kids need to sit out.  If this happens (and injuries mean it doesn't more often than it does) then the kids that sit out are rotated - it's not the same kid that sits out every week, although if a kid misses practices then he will likely be one of the ones sitting out.[/quote]

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