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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure what the debate is about.  There are much better Soccer forums in other parts of the US.  Read those.  U12 and U13 boys and girls on USSF's firing line.[/quote]

Yawn.  Who honestly cares about the youngest age group anyway. If you want your kid to be part of the DA environment, it can only help to join these clubs early, to be exposed to their methods and culture and to prove yourself as a player.  So if the age groups are still there in DA, great. If not, only a benefit in being there early.  There’s only one major DA club that I know of that would rather take a player they don’t know over an equivalent in house player, and I’d argue that’s not a net gain for said club as the jilted player leaves in almost all cases.  Most clubs at this level would rather keep their in house player, where the investment has already been made.

This whole debate is really a tempest in a teapot over rumors with no factual basis from anything other than unreliable discussion boards.   [/quote]

Loudoun and Arlington do not play DA-style in their non-DA teams..and, frankly, it’s questionable on many of their DA teams.  There are other Clubs in the area without DA that do a much better job.  Frankly, I know many that pulled their kids out of these Clubs at the younger ages because they didn’t want them playing kickball and punting keepers.[/quote]

Coaching to Develop vs Coaching to Win in the younger years.

Great recent article:

http://teachlikeachampion.com/blog/coaching-and-practice/coaching-develop-players-vs-coaching-win-examples/[/quote]

The point of creating 'one dimensional players' is valid.  Many of these places rely on 'young superstars' and their physicality/dominance.  They capitalize on it and the player is never developed properly and fails later on at age 17/18.  Their backs also rarely touch the ball, but serve only to distribute it with a long kick.  Play this way in the younger years seriously limits the number of touches per player.   You want every kid on the field touching the ball in the prime development years.  And, whether your a fan of possession style or not---it should be learned early in development because it is the method that affords kids the most touches on the ball in practice and in games.  Non-possession soccer allocates touches to only a few players.  "you watch a teammate launch a 30 yard blind pass or try to dribble three players in the midfield, you are learning less when you don’t have the ball because you are not thinking that you are about to get it.  Thinking you will and hoping you might are very different.  Finally 4) you want players to know and understand the system that is played at elite levels so they can aspire to go as far as they can go.  Possession soccer is the default.  That’s why the US Soccer Federation advocates it."  Now, as said, the majority of Clubs in the US do not follow USSF's advice or implement it correctly---even many of the 'DA clubs'.[/quote]

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