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at GFR they have coaches with:
a) no license listed
b) coaches with license that shows at 
https://learning.ussoccer.com/directory
c) coaches listed with licenses that do not verify at https://learning.ussoccer.com/directory

the 2014 Spirit coach wins quite a lot, but only shows as having grassroots license

not sure it all matters[/quote]

I know players on 14g Spirit, the coach is not why they win. Some parents complain about how aggressive the girls are trained to be vs actual skill work tbh. However, there are a couple AMAZING girls on the team that should be playing up. We'll see how they do this spring in u-11 since they pushed the whole team up instead of just one or two girls.

But yeah, coaching super important... unless you've got a [b]few good kids that just carry a whole team, which happens everywhere[/b]. [/quote]

Eventually having 3 amazing girls won't enough. That's why results at u littles shouldn't matter.[/quote]

100%

It's why certain big clubs do really well at the younger ages and then fall apart when they hit 11v11.

News flash, if your coach isn't working on the whole team learning passing and proper spacing/basic soccer stuff and foot skills they are not a good coach and your kid's team is riding other kids' coattails, which will very abruptly end at some point.[/quote]

And to this point, valor is one of the better clubs I've seen as far as knowing field play and passing. Kids might not be all-star/ all American athletes but at least they can pass around those kids.[/quote]

Agree with this. Valor may not win a lot at the younger ages but they do pass and play out of the back. Loudoun ulittles' style of play is annoying. They just have a bunch of kids big and strong enough to boot the ball any time it's in their half of the field. [/quote]

Loudoun is SO bad about this. They don't even. Rey and hide it.

I don't get parent's paying $1,000s year after year to watch a team of kids watch one kid on the field  ball hog and  single-handedly determine If your team wins to loses. The kick up to XYZ player and then they run straight  through other team's players 90% of the time until u12 when the'big, fast, and aggressive' formula doesn't automatically win you games anymore.

I guess metals are more important than their child getting development during developmental ages, at those mega clubs, though. [/quote]

Ha, yeah we were at a different club/team, but that was the formula. Kick it to the 1-2 really fast players (not big though) up top and get breakaway goals. Then U12 hit, and that formula crashed and burned. We couldn't score at all. Of course our practice field size allocation was tiny so it's not like the team could practice real tactics any way.[/quote]

How much field space did you get for how many days a week and what age? I am curious how much practice space others get. It really affects what the coaches can do at practice.[/quote]

4-6 teams on a full-sized field. Each team would get their own postage stamp-sized space. It probably was coach-dependent because if you take a less ideal day/timeslot, you'd probably get more space. A small space is fine if you have a technical session planned, but it really showed on gameday when the team had no concept of spacing and movement. So it was "kick it to the fast player and hope for a miracle".[/quote]

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