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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Good post about development. You do need to look out for some of the bad aspects that will hinder development for your kid, no one else is going to do that for you. Is playing time earned from hard work in practice or do certain players get all the playing time no matter what? Our old club would heavily favor players that paid some of the club coaches for training on the side. It was easy to tell which kids were paying the coaches for extra training because they never came off the field, took every free kick, penalty, corner, guest played on older teams, etc. They would give those kids every opportunity at the expense of the rest of the team. There were other kids that did a lot of training from the periphery, and were just as good but were penalized for it. So I would agree to spend your time on the periphery but if it is impacting your kid on the field you need to move teams. [/quote]

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