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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Complete hack job of an article. Makes it seem like unless you’re with an affiliate club your training consists of drills with cones and fitness testing.

Go to any club in VA and they’re all doing rondos and games[/quote]

That’s not how I read it. Seemed a fair presentation of good and bad of these affiliates. My kids have played at one of the local affiliate clubs and also at other local clubs. There is a difference to how they trained and philosophy. Not necessarily all for the better but there were differences. All training was in game situations. In training there was no working on individual skills, no two person drills passing the ball back and forth, no working on set pieces, no teaching of proper technique to do a throw in or how to shoot. It was all small groups in “games” designed to reward whatever was that day’s training focus - eg get a point for switching the field and moving the ball to a spot on the field, or can only shoot after connecting x number of passes.

The good was that players developed good game awareness, playing in small spaces, receiving and getting ball off their feet quickly. The bad was that (young) players were not taught the basic rules and strategies of soccer. I think in Europe this works because kids already know these basics because their parents teach them or they watch on tv all the time. Just like in US you don’t need to teach kids how to line up and play American football. The coaches assumed kids were doing all the individual work on their own at home like in Europe [/quote]

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