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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that some of the #TheProJourney episodes by Kyle Wilson were helpful (mainly the [b]YouthSoccerPlaybook[/b]).  I realized that my child and I focused on things early that would not really be that useful until later on, and the focus really should have been on dribbling and 1v1.  Compared to other travel players, that is the main gap that we're still catching up on.  [/quote]

Kyle is annoying but the Youth Soccer Playbook is everything you need to know. I documented the steps and it is the blueprint we are still following. If you start late, you just have to adapt it but the principles remain the same when building a player.[/quote]

So many top professionals took different routes, it paints a clear picture that the reality is different than the theories and there's no single playbook to fit all [/quote]

Ok, if you really think you should follow-it like a checklist, you really need to loosen up. It can be boiled down to you should not be in travel soccer until you know the basics. Learn how to attack 1v1. Played small-sided as much as possible. Learn to juggle and develop a quality first touch.

People are running to False8 and Next Star hoping for them to fix their kid when they kid can’t keep the ball up 50x or do a basic body feint.

If you have a better playbook to use as a blueprint please share. Parents deserve to have something better than what these clubs are telling them as most of it is garbage.[/quote]

LOL 
There are no secrets left for what it takes to  give yourself the opportunity to become a top level player

The information is out there and repeated five million times each day on social media etc

Most people are looking for the easy shortcut and magic pill playbook

The 1% succeed because they're willing to do what the 99% won't

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There's no secrets, but there is a ton of conflicting information out there.  For those who are unfamiliar with soccer or sports in general, having a simple sequence of areas to focus on can change the path and opportunities for that player.   There are probably kids who want to have the chance to play different positions, but have been pidgeon-holed to playing the same position the entire time because they are too far behind in skills that should have been developed early.[/quote]

[b]Young kids not playing different positions is 100% a coaching problem [/b]
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But it is happening on the first team of major local clubs. I know this now as a parent who went though a lot of podcasts and Kyle’s playbook. But if a parent does not know, their kid is just biding time from kids who know.  Why not help them understand what is standard?  That is how we collectively get better than these information paywalls.

Many local kids “put in the time” as a prior poster said and reach DCU academy and stall because they don’t know what to do with their time because they are not executing the steps in Kyle’s playbook. [b]He did not create it. It is based on the Croatian Development Curriculum[/b] which is pretty sound and more strategic than anything you will get from a club.[/quote]

This is my biggest issue with Kyle…he’s operating as a self-promoter and influencer. There’s zero accountability for outcomes, but plenty of “insider knowledge” positioned as the key to unlocking your child’s future. The pitch is simple…send your kid, trust the process, don’t ask too many questions. It’s the social media version of a rainmaker scam wrapped in a big store ruse model.

You’re seeing the same playbook elsewhere. FV from BE posted something similar last week…“trust me, the coach…not even yourself.” That’s not expertise…it’s control.

There is no secret sauce. There are fundamentals, and they have to be mastered. And mastery isn’t “yeah, my kid can do that…next.” Master musicians still run scales every day…there’s a reason for that.

False 8 is drifting into the same lane. Sped up social videos to make it look like their athletes are so far ahead, “elite” groups, “accelerated” pathways, exclusivity…it’s all designed to appeal to the payer so F8 can secure access to the actual asset…the kid. That model should make you pause.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the next step is deeper capture…schooling, lifestyle, full-environment control. We’ve already seen versions of that with Sisu and Beast Academy. At some point, it stops being development and starts looking a lot more like a funnel…separating people from their money.

That legitimate model already exists at IMG, and are they pumping out Cavans? Christians? Tobins? Etc?[/quote]

As the author of the post you are responding too, I 99% agree with your take. Except, it only cost me commercial breaks during the NFL and college 🏈 season to go through Kyle’s playbook with a legal pad and take notes and then read the Croatian model in order to build an IDP for my kid of pure fundamentals.  Because I actually have a meat and potatoes blueprint now, that is why I could take my kid to a False8 session and realize it is a complete joke.

I really like what Kyle and Christian both “say” but I have the ability to differentiate their information from their sales pitches.

Here is what I can say. My kid is currently playing at the same level as kids who starting playing club soccer 2 years before my kids first year playing rec. If Kyle’s free playbook was 💩, he would not have caught up so quickly. Those kids had the “best” youth coaches at the “top” clubs and yet here we are in the same pot and now the separation begins because I have a plan for my kid built for free from these guys. For my kid to have caught up so quickly, most people are doing the wrong things.[/quote]

What has Kyle and Christian invented?[/quote]

Original IG content for soccer parents.  I’m sorry, did the post mention anything about Kyle and Christian inventing something? [/quote]

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