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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A technical player that is small, weak and slow will get destroyed by the fast/stronger defenders.

Hence, small skilled players needs to be moderately quick/fast, and somewhat strong too. Intelligence is important but having the skills and smarts without the speed/quickness/strength is very limiting. [/quote]

Absolutely.  But in real life, the smaller skilled player won't be encouraged to learn how to use his or her body and make intelligent choices because the player will be bumped down to the B or C team or remain on the A team and won't play at all. Trust me.[/quote]

100% this.  They will even be told they have better skill/IQ but not the size as their reason for not moving up. And, on the big field at U13-15 it can make a significant difference to be lacking in physical maturity.

If you can navigate a kid through these years---a kid like that will end up infinitely better because he has had to use skill and high IQ to get around physically bigger players.  A kid that is massive early runs the risk of relying on that physicality. That is why I in Europe--kids are challenged appropriately.  They move an older age kid that has not developed yet down an age group for awhile and one that is dominating due to size up an age group.  Our 1 year model is crap.  You have fully grown kids at 14 and kids that don't even start growing until 15.

I agree our system won't change because almost all soccer players in the Us stop playing by Senior year of HS (and most before).  The later growers never materialize.

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