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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speed and size are attributes that cannot be trained. That is why they are valued. If you are a slow or undersized player, there is a ceiling. That is true in any sport. It is a bitter pill to swallow if your kid is slow or small but that is the reality.[/quote]

I agree that slow and undersized are problems.  That is also why playing up too many years is such a problem.  It makes that player slow in comparison (assuming they are fast when appropriately played).  It also makes them tiny in comparison.

BUT, so is a lack of technique.  I never see those fast players improve their technique.  They just continue on thinking they are doing a good enough job because they keep making teams.  An average speed player is more effective if they have excellent technique because they can control the ball. Those fast players as juniors and seniors continue to turn balls over becuase it bounces several feet from their heavy touch. [/quote]

And the slow midfielders (with many many touches as they try to impress the crowd with their amazing repeated pull backs) lose the ball every single time.  It's a one or two touch game people.  [/quote]

Forget about slow anything, and let's not focus on positions. Average speed with great technique versus extremely fast with little technique and poor touch.  [/quote]

By the time the kids get to high school the extremely fast girls have great touches and fabulous technique. They are highly sought after by colleges.  [/quote]

I have never seen a kid with a bad touch develop a great touch and technique. Just not seen it. The highly sought after kids with great touch and technique have always had it. Touch, speed, size, vision, quickness, strength, endurance are things you are born with. You can improve some of these with training but you are starting from a baseline and you have a max line. [/quote]

lolz, yeah sure they were just born with it. ha ha ha ha 
Or maybe they've always had it because their family has a football culture and they started dribbling a ball as soon as they could walk[/quote]

Yep all those soccer players with a bad touch just do not work at it. It they worked at it they would have a touch like Messi. Hell everyone should have a touch like Messi. Touch is something that can be taught. Every time you see a player with bad touch remember they are just lazy and do not work at it. It’s like shooting in basketball or hitting a baseball. Anyone can do it. [/quote]

Well you should have told those players earlier to give up since they will NEVER get it.[/quote]

Yes tell that slow kid he/she can run fast if he/she trains. Tell that fast player with a bad touch he/she can have a great touch if only he/she work at it. It’s not going to happen. [/quote]

How do you explain kids with great touch when they were young but getting worse when older?[/quote]

frustration. That get frustrated from not moving up and being eclipsed by the physical kids and the passion dies along with aggression and will to play.  Ask me how I know?

I have one kid that has always been big and one that has always been tiny.  The tiny is fast/quick and coaches fawned over him for his great ball/skill touch, but as the years have marched on the teams are becoming bigger and bigger and as they head to full field most of the top teams, if they haven't already, are getting bigger in size.[/quote]

I have one of those kids too.  His experience has been soul crushing. He used to live for soccer and stuck it out for such a long time, despite his size. He doesn't necessary need to work harder, he needed an opportunity to play during the formative years and he wasn't getting that.  B & C teams aren't a good fit.  If you are a great touch/great vision player who is small, you wind up playing with no touch, no understanding of the game players and it isn't fun.  [/quote]

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