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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ I disagree. Touch can be learned through deliberate & routine practice. Speed can be fined tuned but it’s 99% hereditary. Soccer IQ can be learned but it’s difficult without dedicated coaching, watching games and lots of in game experience.

My DD has decent first touch, ball skills and can use either foot to kick/dribble because she practiced 2-3 times a week for about 30 minutes besides from her team practices.  She was definitely not born with.[/quote]

The problem for fast kids learning first touch is many of them simply don't need it through their developmental years so they just don't really focus on it or realize that they should. When you can push the ball ahead and always outrun kids to the ball it is hard to imagine ever facing kids who are just as fast. [/quote]

Yes!  First touch and ball skill is critical for below U12.  Kids U8-U12 should be developing these skills.  Kids that default solely to size and speed in the earliest years are at a disadvantage down the road.  It is much harder after U13 to pick up foot skill because of the wiring of the brain and development.

My older one benefited from the birth year [b]from being one of the oldest to moving down to one of the youngest at age U11 (he skipped U11)[/b].  He was big for calendar year but as he moved up an age group( and we are a family that grows on the later side), he really had to work on his skill and touch to hang in there. He trained a lot to keep up, much more than the physically big/fast teammates that had getting by with their size.  At U15 and still isn't one of the biggest (middle' size on the field), but he hasn't had his growth spurt and most of the kids he's playing with that are almost a full year older have reached theirs.  He has size 11 feet and if things pan out like the rest of the men in the family, he will be around 6'1".  Having that impeccable first touch when the size comes together is something impressive to see.  I have seen it with other players.  They surge ahead because they end up with both--touch/skill/IQ [b]and[/b] size/speed. They have to stay motivated through the shitty years when size/physicality is the divider.  Down the road, you need both to succeed.

It's a marathon, not a sprint.[/quote]

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