Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 10:19     Subject: Travel Coach also College or HS coach
Anonymous wrote:This is true and describes a reality. The other side is that kids need to be physically able to handle larger kids to remain competitive as they get older. If you watch high level college games, you need to have both skills. Kids who don’t develop a complete game will not make it. It’s a competitive world and college players are physically strong.


High level and college games are oxymoron lol
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 09:25     Subject: Travel Coach also College or HS coach
Anonymous wrote:This is true and describes a reality. The other side is that kids need to be physically able to handle larger kids to remain competitive as they get older. If you watch high level college games, you need to have both skills. Kids who don’t develop a complete game will not make it. It’s a competitive world and college players are physically strong.


The coaches coaching kids going through the pre and puberty years should know and understand the bodies will change and the slower to physically mature will catch up in physicality

The ones with the technical skills and high intelligence young will be superior after the puberty barrier is crossed and all bodies are relatively equal.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 09:20     Subject: Travel Coach also College or HS coach
This is true and describes a reality. The other side is that kids need to be physically able to handle larger kids to remain competitive as they get older. If you watch high level college games, you need to have both skills. Kids who don’t develop a complete game will not make it. It’s a competitive world and college players are physically strong.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 09:16     Subject: Travel Coach also College or HS coach
Anonymous wrote:If the "small but skilled" kids were that skilled, they would not be getting beat by crash derby, pushed off tackles and losing possession non stop to the more athletic kids.

Truly skilled kids will not lose to crash dummies because they are actually skilled and will keep possession of the ball.


Don't mix up more physically mature with being more athletic

Shielding the ball away from crash dummies doesn't keep the crash dummy away from you.
Only a team moving the ball does that.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 09:06     Subject: Travel Coach also College or HS coach
Anonymous wrote:If the "small but skilled" kids were that skilled, they would not be getting beat by crash derby, pushed off tackles and losing possession non stop to the more athletic kids.

Truly skilled kids will not lose to crash dummies because they are actually skilled and will keep possession of the ball.


They gotta get selected first, then playing time to show they're truly actually skilled

If the boot and run demolition derby coach doesn't care about possession, little Iniesta ain't playing
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 08:54     Subject: Travel Coach also College or HS coach
If the "small but skilled" kids were that skilled, they would not be getting beat by crash derby, pushed off tackles and losing possession non stop to the more athletic kids.

Truly skilled kids will not lose to crash dummies because they are actually skilled and will keep possession of the ball.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 08:41     Subject: Travel Coach also College or HS coach
Seeing so many of these U17, U16 and U15 teams playing soccer crash-derby with big kids on the weekends is painful
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2025 08:25     Subject: Travel Coach also College or HS coach
If you're looking for a new team or your team gets a new coach who also coach's at a college or HS, the very strong odds are they are going to prioritize size and physicality over technical skills and soccer intelligence

Make your decisions regarding your kid's future development with them based on that