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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be realistic about how athletic your daughter is - not how technical or good at soccer - but how athletic. Deciding factor in speed of play on girls side at older ages is dominated by athleticism and aggression. [/quote]

This advice is dead wrong.  Girls ages 9-12 are still growing and most have not hit puberty.  You’d be a fool to judge factors such as aggression and size over technical ability at this age.  Usually, kids with great technical ability also have speed and athleticism anyways.

Kids without the technical skills by age 12 should reconsider what sports to invest their time in.  Muscle memory has already kicked in;[b] whereas, athleticism, aggression and speed can always be taught. [/b] Technical abilities have a range before it’s just not happening.  typically because if a kid has not practiced these skills in the past 3 years, they won’t automatically get disciplined enough to do it. I’ve never seen a 12 year old suddenly execute amazing technical skills if they didn’t already have a baseline.[/quote]

You can't teach speed or athleticism. It's either there or not. You can make a kid marginally faster, but you can not make a slow kid fast [/quote]

It’s clear you have never coached girls (maybe rec) or ever had good coaches. These are the most basic skills you can teach younger kids. Even older kids can get in shape and develop speed and athleticism.  This is nothing more than getting in shape. Aggression is just a state of mind. However, skills get harder and harder to develop with age. That is why every country outside of America teaches fundamentals and skills repetitively. Over and over again then they work on size and aggression in the older years. [/quote]

Why is there this focus on what other countries do?  Who cares?  We do what we do.  If we wanted to produce the best soccer players we would.  We don’t want that.  It is at best a second tier sport in the US.  Maybe third tier.  Higher on girls side.  Kids already quit as they get older.  You would increase that by focusing on skills only.  You would move the sport to fourth tier.  [/quote]

You win the award for the stupidest comment of the day, congratulations! Why focus on what other successful countries do? Because that is how you model success. Why do kids quit as they get older? Because they have no skills and get left behind. Stop trying to justify your fat kid league that probably can't even pass or receive a ball to save their lives.[/quote]

What you wrote is try if the end goal is winning a world cup. I'm guessing a very small fraction of the families with kids playing youth soccer care about that. Kids want to play a game and they enjoy winning games. If they enjoyed training more than playing, the offerings would reflect that. [/quote]

I stand corrected. THIS is the stupidest comment of the day! I'm a big enough person to admit when I am wrong.[/quote]

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