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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Work rate is a combination of fitness and desire (plus a little soccer IQ of where to run on the field). Can all definitely be improved if the player wants to put in the work [/quote]

No it’s a combination of speed, how the player looks when they run and running around a lot. I have seen many a player at the ECNL level run around a lot but do nothing. They look good running and the coach likes that. [/quote]

My coach dad always said “never mistake activity for efficiency”.  Sometimes coaches see a player running around like a spaz, chicken with their head cut off and mistake for “great work rate”.

A better player times their runs, is in the right place at the right time, steps to the ball, is calm and collected on the ball—let’s the ball do the work.  Put a kid like this in with players that run all over and don’t know positioning and they will appear out of place.

It takes time to adjust to the next level.  I saw when my kid had to skip the entire U12 year because of birth year change and was on the big fiend with kids that had already played there a year and when my one kid jumped from CCL to DA.  They have less time with the ball, more pressure faster, it takes time to adjust to the speed.  She will get there.[/quote]

This. Ignore the goofs on here talking about “being the better athlete”. They don’t know anything beyond garbage US Soccer. [/quote]

Yep. I'm the pp you responded to.  A perfect example I always showed my kids of 'activity with no efficiency' (not to mention nepotism :lol: ) was Michael Bradley.  Look at him compared to world class midfielders.  He just ran around like an idiot.[/quote]

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