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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a good example from WS-VA's U16/U17 team just a few months ago.  Look at about the 1:15 mark, when the goalie picks up the ball.  She ends up punting it, but it's not because playing out of the back wasn't a good option.  They don't even try.   In that situation, when the GK picks up the ball, a possession-based team is trained to immediately get into shape to try and play out - the CB's drop off and get wide of the box, the FB's push a little higher and get wide to the line and open up, and the MF's look to get free and make themselves available as options.   The WS players do none of that.  This is not a team that is trained to play out of the back, and a team that is not trained to play out of the back is not a possession based team.

https://youtu.be/bmN8rgWl8-Y[/quote]

I think if you really watch that video, you will find some of the players play possession and some don't.  But to be fair to that team, that was an earlier game with a brand new group of girls.  I saw them recently, and while the goalie still plays possession only 1/4th or less of the time, the team itself has periods of possession and periods of direct play.  Some of the players are more talented and technical.  They generally look for a possession play.  Others have less skill and maybe a weaker background.  Those are the long ball hitters.

so to see the development, you have to see a more recent game to see the impact of Hales on the team. [/quote]

Individual player decision-making is one thing.  I get it.  Even when coaches are trying to teach a possession style, some players will apply it and some won't, to different degrees.  But I think you miss the point.

It is the off the ball movement of the entire team, as well as the decision-making of individuals, that indicates how they are being coached.

Here's a U13 boys team from October of last year.   This is what it looks like when a team is trying to learn to play a possession style.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URFKkzoYZTM.  They'd been playing 11v11 for less than 2 months.  [/quote]

Just so we've got this straight, in order to prove that DA teams do not in fact play possession you chose a video of a DA game that demonstrates how proper possession play looks?[/quote]

I never said DA teams do not play possession.  I just question whether WS-VA teams are coached to play possession, and I think a lot of people don't really even understand what that means or looks like.

If someone has a video that they think shows differently as far as Spirit, please post it.   [/quote]

The initial crack that started the possession debate was the following exchange:

[quote]Anonymous wrote:
Spirit VA U15s played Arlington U15s to a 0-0 draw today in Arlington. It was an excellent, well-matched, well-played game with both teams leaning on possession soccer. That Spirit team is no where near as bad as they've been painted in these threads.

Arlington playing possession? Lol.
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Other that the assertion that Arlington does not play possession the actual debate has been a more general one regarding possession and the DA. And nobody claimed Spirit played possession, the assertions was that Arlington does not play possession.

But thanks for moving the goal posts.[/quote]

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