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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, the club players just dance around with the ball, never move it forward, and lack speed and athleticism. So the non-soccer kids that just play kick and run win the games because they are superior athletes. My son is one of these types of players. He’s big and fast and soccer is his third sport, but he dominates the smaller and slower club players. A team full of really good club players that play a possession style might defeat them, but in practice the kick and run teams win so coaches stick with that. [/quote]

The club players try to posses the ball but the problem is the ball will eventually get to a non-club player and then the ball will get lost. So it's not a great strategy for HS soccer. I do agree the big kids dominate. It's not really soccer though.[/quote]
“Club” player just means anyone who plays with a private club, right? So the club players you’re referring to could be on the club’s rec team, or one of the lower-level travel teams that DCUM so often derides as “glorified rec?”

If the “big guy kick and run” strategy is still winning games, then it sounds like the level of play at these HS games must be pretty low, regardless of whether the players are club or not. The reason why you don’t see this in higher level soccer is not just cause “kickball” is not “real” soccer, but cause it’s a quick way to LOSE games. Punting the ball to outer space almost always results in turning over the ball to the opponent, even when the ball stays in bounds. If both teams are doing it and they’re not that good, the game gets boring real fast.

Also, there’s no need to be a douche about this, so GTFOH with the “bigger kids = superior athletes” BS. it’s soccer not a eugenics contest.[/quote]

No that was my original point. The skill level of the athletes is pretty variable in high school unless the team is one of the very best. The varsity team my son is on has a bunch of kids that play travel year round but only 1-2 is a strong athlete that play at a higher level. My son and another non-travel soccer player are biggest and fastest players and score the vast majority of the goals. If our team ever takes them out the soccer looks more fluid, but our team performs a lot worse. So the coach puts them in because we win our league by just playing direct with long kicks that they run down and put in the back of the net.

Possession style is superior when you have the cats to execute it, but the bottom 70% of travel soccer plays will just get cooked by a really good athlete that has very little technical skill because they can’t keep up with them and get knocked off the ball. So it may look like dumb soccer but it terms of winning games it’s often the better course. That’s why it persists despite being ugly. [/quote]

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