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[quote=Anonymous]Coach here:

Full disclosure, I don't currently coach a ECNL or GA team. I also don't have visibility to every single ENCL team in the local area (let alone nation wide).

That being said, the teams I have seen play, and girls that I have trained at that level possess some measure of all of these things.

Can physical ability compensate for some lack of technical ability - sure, we see this even at the highest levels of the game for both men and women, lets not kid ourselves here. It also works the other way around w/ technical ability.

That all being said, it's much easier to find athletes than technical players. It's also (in my opinion) easier to tech technique for youth players than it is to try and teach speed, strength etc. In fact I'd argue it's more important to each the technique early on than those other things.

I think the unfortunate situation is, due to the results based nature of how teams are judged by many parents (and to some extent clubs) until someone can consistently beat those super athletic teams with very technical teams you're not going to see a demand for change from the paying customer.

Having said all that, there are still teams and perhaps clubs that try to do things the "right" way.

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