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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What club around here actually develops its own players[/quote]

No club does.  The club and team are just one piece of the important puzzle.  Focus on the good aspects of the club, and try to avoid the bad aspects.  Don't be bitter and bail and say all clubs are evil.  Don't be a lemming and do everything your club says.  Lay low, don't get heavily involved with the politics.  Stay on the periphery, because that is where the rest of the puzzle will come from.  Training on your own, in other clubs winter programs, in a summer camp or totally unrelated environment, etc., etc.  The more you focus on that part of the puzzle, the more you will see development.  Even a great team or great coach (something that if you find is of course a HUGE plus) will only take your player so far.  The club even less, it is just there as a necessary, sometimes fun, often unfun, pre-requisite to developing with other good players (that often are friends of your player which makes it more "fun") in a lot of cases, but not all cases.  I am talking mainly about the development from U8 to maybe U13-14 here.  I think other variables come into play when older.  But at the younger developing age just try to get as many challenges and experiences from as many different sources as possible.  No one club gives you that, and don't buy the hype from the club.  It helps if someone in your family understands or played soccer.  You will meet a LOT of parents though that do the Buy-In, so as I said just stay on the fringes and don't get all wrapped up with them.  Less time with the club's agenda and programming means more time to train, get touches, etc.

I think you will get a lot of different opinions on this from the personalities on this board though.  People tend to go to extremes on this subject.[/quote]

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