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[quote=Anonymous][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]

If you don't know why a U11 team with bigger, stronger,  faster early bloomers can kick and run past technical smaller kids then you probably shouldn't be commenting [/quote]

Enlighten us.[/quote]

You may be the only person on the entire DCUM who doesn't know the early bloomers physical advantages at younger ages [/quote]

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  that’s not an answer.

I would take the bet on a technical team over the bigger faster kick and run team all day long.

You made the comment suggesting a thing to be true, I don’t think that thing is true. Maybe you’re using “technical” as a synonym for “sucks, but the parents think they’re amazing.” But when I think of technical…I think of accurate passes, getting split, wingers with chalk on their boots and backs on the touch line, making runs, overlaps, dummy runs, etc… those sorts of teams tend to crush the kick and run bruisers…but maybe you meant something else by technical? [/quote]

Technical means players on the touchline? What does technique have to do with shape? Kick and run teams usually play with wingers, right?[/quote]

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