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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you DD needs to win games for confidence or for development she does not belong in ECNL or DA soccer. [/quote]

Different poster.  I'm not in total agreement with the PP.  However, I think the right answer is in between.  I agree that they don't have to win every single game.  However, if they are losing every single game by wide margins, at the very least they are playing out of their depth.  I'm not commenting on any specific team by the way, but as a concept.  I think Loudoun will stabilize in the ECNL and will eventually do better as time goes on.  I have faith in the program.  That doesn't mean though that I consider losing every single game a developmental experience.  It's not.  Players lose the confidence that they can win.  They can also forget how.  If you see a team that does win some, when they do lose, there is a fight in them that doesn't exist in teams that have a habit of losing.  To them, losing becomes a culture.

If they are constantly winning and often by wide margins, they are also under-challenged.  So both are problems.  The best teams are the middle tier teams.  They win some and they lose some.  They get both ends of the developmental experience.[/quote]

I think winning is completely irrelevant to the individual player.  What matters is how play is carried and what the individual player can do.  A team with a weak midfield might lost every game 0-5 and even in that experience, all players may improve from the beginning of the year.  The result is not tied to the development of the payer at all in my experience.  The result is more about the total level of talent at all positions, depth of the bench, and sophistication of play.  That doesn't mean that the losing players don't develop, even if they are "out of their depth."  They just aren't at the level of the other teams.  They gain regardless.  I do agree with you that the team on the other end, winning every game 5-0 gains much, much less.[/quote]

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