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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot of people here are seeing this discussion in extremes.

Soccer is neither all aggression nor no aggression. Yes, the stereotypical U.S. club has a mass tryout to find the most athletic 8-year-olds and the occasional prodigy whose skill is SO advanced that he/she stands out in a 5v5 game.

But the biggest adjustment as kids grow is **speed of play**. That doesn't necessarily mean being the fastest kid on the field, which will get meaningless results at U10 but won't necessarily translate to being the best soccer player at U14. But it DOES mean players need to learn to do all their nice ball skills more quickly, and they need to do more to GET the ball in the first place.

I've seen plenty of teams that have all sorts of nice skills in practice, but then they can't pull it off in games because everyone else is so much more aggressive. At U9/U10, that's OK, as long as no one's getting too discouraged with blowout losses. By U11, when you're actually starting to sort out into divisions, it matters. You may have a team with great skill that ends up in NCSL Division 8 or so, where they won't get the games they need to develop.

So this has been a good discussion. But the OP's original question is still valid. And we haven't answered it.[/quote]

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