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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Technical skill isn't important in America. They want ' athletic strong' aka large, fast, and really aggressive over skills. The amount of parents I've talked to who are extremely frustrated with coaches just flat out saying their kid doesn't fit on their roster because they're highly technical but on the smaller side is indicative of this. If you look at who dominates in ECNL it's West Coast and Texan players who are big and just throw their bodies at people over having actual foot skills. Sure, they can all blast the ball extremely hard to the back of the net; but then we wonder why we get obliterated in international play when actually technical players absolutely shut our national team players down in both men's and women's soccer. Anyone who disagrees with this can just watch an almost 40-year-old Messi absolutely dribble circles around an entire back line of American MLS players completely past his prime as though he's just taking a leisurely walk down the field before scoring.

Here's to hoping at some point we stopped treating soccer like American football in this country. [/quote]

This isn’t true anymore. And hasn’t been true for a very long time.

I feel like I hear this all the time from parents whose who have inflated views of their kids abilities or skills.[/quote]

You hear this complaint all the time because it's true not because parents think too much of their kids. I hope your fast and aggressive player gets to play in college. They will not go any farther than college and this mindset is why American soccer does so badly internationally. No other country treats soccer the way America does. Our men's team is absolutely abysmal for a reason... Are women's team continues to fall in the ranking for the exact same problems... Once other countries  started investing in their women's programs magically the USA women's national team suddenly can't compete anymore. Why would that be? [/quote]

It’s true at the competitive non-elite and high school soccer tiers.

Slammers, Surf, PDA, Solar are some of the most technical teams in the country. Sure some of their age groups field a few big girls, but those big girls have have (or they wouldn’t be on their top teams). But the idea that these are teams filled with the soccer equivalent of hockey enforces is just silly.

There are some ECNL teams like that, and they get crushed by the top tier and highly technical teams. Like 13-0 crushed.

Your view point is just misinformed and outdated by sour parents and people that aren’t actually in the flow of elite youth soccer.[/quote]

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