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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coaches focus too much on team development??? Welcome to soccer, it's a team sport! No wonder out national team has absolutely no chemistry.[/quote]

Yet places like Spain, Germany, Italy focus on player development in the younger years.  You are too dense to understand the difference.  That does NOT mean tactics and player movement is thrown to the wayside.

What it means is that the individual is moved through a developmental system according to their individual needs.  For us, that means our child has been gradually moved up and up in training age groups, and eventually games.  He is working at the level that fits him.  The coaches are teaching the kids the spatial concepts, movements, first touch, etc. which are essential to team play---yet they are taking a hard look at each kid individually.  They will play younger kids for developmental reasons even if it means games and tournaments are lost.

The kids learn every position on the field, and learn them well.  As older players--they will be able to transition accordingly as needed.  Again, this may mean losing a game when your forward is getting time in the back, etc.

The team concept is bigger in these individual academies.  No player is greater than the rest and you can see that with guys like Messi.  Humbleness.

We are a prima donna country.  We prop kids up and shit on the rest.  We don't have patience and think a kid at 9/10/11 is finished with no future.[/quote]

I found it really interesting that before his death, the great innovator Johann Cruyff, was looking as 'individualizing' development as the new direction.

"I have never seen a team make a debut. Individual players do. Therefore, an academy should focus on individual development”

– Johan Cruyff –

"We began to develop these ideas about taking an individual approach to coaching young players," he explains. "We spoke about these coaches who only wanted to win the match at the cost of everything else when it came to youth development. We started to write things down and come up with a plan to help the individual players in a better way.

"We presented it to our bosses at Ajax but they were not so interested. In fact, it was the opposite. Their attitude was that we should not do this. This is Ajax. This is dangerous." Change meant risk. It meant shaking things up. But the danger appealed to Cruyff. Ajax's mavericks soon had the backing of the game's grandest maverick thinker of them all.

The problem, as Cruyff and his cohorts saw it, was that these coaches were too preoccupied with getting their team to win matches. "We did not want the results to be important," says Jongkind. "There is only one team that needs to win and that is the first team. A youth game is the same as training. It is a means to an end not an end in itself. It is a tool."

They would insist on highly-rated defenders playing in midfield to improve their touch in tight situations even if it meant conceding goals and losing games. "Now you see a lot of clubs and federations talking about this but often it is just words," he adds. "You have to match the actions to the words. It is very difficult to really do that. But that is what we did.

Cryuff's coach at 15 only had him playing 2 days per week vs Ajax's 5 because he was weak and skinny---he took him to the local track and field team.

Do we have a system that thinks this way?  Hell no.[/quote]

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