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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

If the “technical” kids are getting destroyed by the bigger kids, maybe they are not that technical or good. [/quote]

I feel like an SYC parent made this comment. 😆 But there is some truth in this. Technical kids at some point may often not be better than a bigger less technical kid (assuming that’s based on whose team wins more).

The upside is the kids on the technical team will likely have a longer soccer career bc they have to rely on their technical skills so much. By the time puberty/growth happens for them, they’ll have the strength and speed to maximize their technical skills.

Not that bigger kids don’t have the technical skills, just that they’ve never been forced to rely on them or consider them an equal option when speed and strength has always been their go to. They become very predictable players. [/quote]

You're overlooking the fact that the bigger stronger and faster kids will pickup technical skills too.  In the end, we still end up with poor performing USMNTs. [/quote]

No I explicitly said that bigger players have technical skills too but they just spent years not relying on them in match play.  All the extra training that kids do to remain technically skilled is useless if they’re not on a team that uses those skills at practice and game day.

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If you relied on being bigger, faster and using primarily physical advantage in place of technical & IQ, you will run into a brick wall trying to make a team that prioritizes possession later[/quote]

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