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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A bit odd that by the time you have a kid playing u14 you would not understand basic style of play but it is harder to play on smaller fields.

It is a simple style of play rarely used if opponents are physically equal.  The US women will still sometimes use a “very direct” style (dump and run, kick and run) because they sometimes will play a relevant game against a team whose defenders are simply unable to back track quick enough.  So - the US team might dump a ball behind the defenders and let someone like Morgan (okay a Morgan of a few years back) run onto it and then be in 1v1 against the keeper.

On the full size field at young ages (u13/u14) some teams will still try it because against kids who are not yet organized defensively (still sorting out how to play on the bigger field) or may be slower; it could be effective.  Once kids/teams get some basics down - unless you have the physical mismatches like the US women sometimes can get - the strategy becomes very ineffective.  You end up just turning it over to the other team.  What happens?  Your team tries to dump it in and let a forward run on to it.  A defender wins the race to the ball.  If they win by a lot they may turn and play it themselves.  Otherwise they will pass to another defender who also came back, or pass back to the keeper who then starts the play moving forward.

One of the big overall strategies is to maintain possession of the ball as much as possible.  If you have the ball 2 big positives occur (1) your team can score, and (2) your team will not be giving up a goal.  Once you give it up to play “direct”, you have to win it back before you can do anything else.  And, that means the opponent can (and frankly should) win it, and then they get to play their own control game.

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Great explanation.[/quote]

+1 as a newer family to soccer and as a parent who didn’t play, I greatly appreciate the explanation. [/quote]

Ditto. OP the soccer forum has a bunch of jerks, ignore them. [/quote]

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