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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your player develops outside the game.  Watch the video in the first post. The games are part of what hurts development, according to the podcast.[/quote]

Every top academy in Europe uses match play as a significant portion of the daily and weekly development. Both in practice and in competition. Soccer is learning in completion, not against cones.

What the podcast / YouTube was critiquing is that in the US we make the games mean more for the individual player than they should. We fail to make matches and games a development environment opposed to a permanent “tryout” environment. In short, we suck the joy out of a sport and replace it with added pressure.[/quote]

Oh yes. By the time players are 13-14 they are playing not to make mistakes or get yelled at. It is incredibly how this shapes the play. Also practices here are boring, lack defensive intensity and speed of play. These things results in a lot of technical players with a very high upside quitting the game. [/quote]

What do you even mean by match play?
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