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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know tryout season just wrapped for most top teams. Is there a lot of movement on yours? Anyone make it who probably shouldn’t have?

Here’s how things went with my DC team:
	•	2 new kids from outside the club
	•	2 kids moved up from the B team
	•	1 kid left for another club
	•	And somehow, 2 kids who clearly didn’t earn a top spot still made the cut

What’s the situation like with your team?[/quote]
Is the coach suddenly flush with a new ride?

Boy post.  Nearing the end of kids soccer journey and realizing (very late) how little most American coaches know about the sport even on top clubs/top teams in DMV.

If player seems not very skillful on top team coaches are likely on the take. A common option is for parents to pay for coaches’ car loans (hard for IRS to detect)

You will also see (because, again, soccer has become such a lucrative side gig for gym teachers) the selection of the 6 foot Adonis over skillful euro transplant because, hey, let’s face it, most American parents don’t understand the game.

This article details what success means for soccer and it goes against what most coaches think a good athlete is: Messi.

Memo to American soccer coaches: it’s skill - not necessarily height, speed, or thickness - that makes a country a world 
Cup contender.  (Prediction: look for Australia to be shock quarterfinal entrant  while American coaches face the finger pointing next summer (yet again) for the failure to reach soccer heights: they’ve been recruiting children that demonstrate touch over ‘physicality’.

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-soccer-success-skill.amp

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Why so much criticism about American system of soccer?  Out of 211 countries in FIFA, American men are ranked 16 and women ranked 1.  This is actually very good by any standard.

I think the biggest problem here is not the coaching.  It’s the parents.  The parents are the ones who can’t seem to understand what is needed and also drive the direction of the clubs and teams. 
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No it's the coaching. American style soccer is not what most of the world plays and why the men's team will never be great and why the women's now struggles. Our women's team was the only one with actual investment for decades and it showed. Now that other countries are investing in women's soccer things like what happened in the last World Cup happen to the US team. 'Athletic (big), strong, and fast ' is all America cares about. America is huge and his many internationally recognized players are there on the men's side from America? Where's our even Temu version of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, etc? [/quote]

At the grassroots level coaches instruct kids to pass the ball instead of dribbling.  This plants the seed in their brain from a young age that you should not dribble, refine your technical dribbling & creativity skills, instead you should robotically pass like you're a cog in a machine.  US coaches want to "play it safe" and sacrifice player development in exchange for winning (sometimes losing out on both)

Neymar Jr and Messi are the players they are because of the freedom to express themselves with creative dribbling & very extensive experience with 1v1 battles.

USA will never be successful at the national level until this fundamental aspect of coaching changes & they make the youth league system affordable to bring in more lower & middle class players.[/quote]

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