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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many of you are getting scammed by claimed or perceived "development" at clubs.  How much development do you think is happening during 3 training sessions a week and a workout?  With 20+ kids to care about?  Maybe a little bit of film study?  How many clubs have more than one coach per team?  How many coaches have more than one team!  Think about it and wake up...development happens outside of clubs.

For those who are serious believers in their club's "development" (you are the perfect customer!), what are some examples of your player developing strictly because of your club?

Kids get more development playing pickup soccer than most of these clubs.

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Sure.  Philly Union Academy is the same at DCU.  Barcelona Academy is the same as Villareal.  Got it.  No difference.  All of the Philly Union and Barcelona results are because the kids were playing alot more pickup.  Let me go signup for the closest club to me.  Thanks for the advice.[/quote]

[b]This takes the cake as the dumbest response.[/b]  Couple quick ones...the kids at those academies in Spain have played TONS of pickup in the streets and at school.  Still that isn't the point.  The point is these clubs are not academies so stop thinking they are and developing kids.  Go take a nap.  The kids that get to those academies have been developed outside of the club environment.  [/quote]

Let me smarten it up so I can reach your level.

If my kid plays 10 hours a week outside of training with Club A that focuses on technical mastery and soccer IQ during training you think it is the same as my kid playing 10 hours a week outside of training with Club B that focuses on physical development, speed scrimmages with the top players in the area.  That is equivalent to saying that Kid A with 8k accumulated hours growing up playing in the streets of Barcelona going to La Masia will yield the same result as Kid B with 8k accumulated hours growing up in the streets of Barcelona going to Espanyol.  It is so asinine, you should just go to American football and leave behind this sport.

Just in the DC area along, 15 minutes on Transfermarket would dispel your take.  One soccer IQ club has over $10m in player value and one top player club has [i]maybe[/i] $2m in player value.  I think I am too dumb to understand 5x value but I think I'll take my chances with the club methodologies that produce value.[/quote]

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