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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Who the hell are you calling dense? WE AGREE, YOU JERK! Everything you just pointed out IS what team building is. I understand that at the younger ages it is all about individual development, I never said that it wasn't. Hence why I said our national team has very little chemistry on the field, because as a collective we do not focus on proper team building and making technically strong, humble, versatile players who leave it on the line for the good of the team, at the older age groups. You people are so caught up over your precocious children that others can't make a post about the coaching in the older age groups without you blowing up because you think someone slighted your 12 year old. You seem to be very knowledgeable, so why would you lead your statement with "you're so dense."? Obviously you see the importance of team building, not for wins, but to improve the quality of the play AS A TEAM. If your player is selfish they were not developed well, I don't care how talented they are. It is a team sport.[/quote]

Teams are interchangeable.  It is the individual player that matters.  [/quote]

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