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Anonymous wrote:These transgressions shall never end as long as we continue to put winning and profits above youth development and celebrate biological early bloomer physical advantages over actual exceptional talent/skills.

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+3 - Coaches, you can't change it overnight, but you can play a part in breaking the cycle.

Unfortunately, too much power lay in the checkbooks of parents who are not interested in the 'right ways' nor have personal experience/knowledge of true organic soccer cultures.
Most coaches trying to focus on actual development won't last long.

"Winning is a part of development, not a replacement for"

Yeah, I think parents are a big influence on this focus on winning. Parents have to truly believe in the coach and that the practice sessions are developing their kid. I’ve seem many parents leave for a more winning team.

We did the opposite and left a team that won a lot because we just didn’t think our child was learning anything new or developing skills that would make him a well rounded player. Even though he was a starter and played almost all minutes, he also got frustrated bc the team couldn’t play possession consistently and would just fallback on booting the ball bc they wanted to win. Good group of kids but varied in technical skills and it’s very hard to play possession when not everyone on the team has the technical skills.

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Anonymous wrote:These transgressions shall never end as long as we continue to put winning and profits above youth development and celebrate biological early bloomer physical advantages over actual exceptional talent/skills.

+1

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+3 - Coaches, you can't change it overnight, but you can play a part in breaking the cycle.

Unfortunately, too much power lay in the checkbooks of parents who are not interested in the 'right ways' nor have personal experience/knowledge of true organic soccer cultures.
Most coaches trying to focus on actual development won't last long.

"Winning is a part of development, not a replacement for"

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Anonymous wrote:These transgressions shall never end as long as we continue to put winning and profits above youth development and celebrate biological early bloomer physical advantages over actual exceptional talent/skills.

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+3 - Coaches, you can't change it overnight, but you can play a part in breaking the cycle.

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Anonymous wrote:These transgressions shall never end as long as we continue to put winning and profits above youth development and celebrate biological early bloomer physical advantages over actual exceptional talent/skills.

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Anonymous wrote:These transgressions shall never end as long as we continue to put winning and profits above youth development and celebrate biological early bloomer physical advantages over actual exceptional talent/skills.

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Anonymous wrote:These transgressions shall never end as long as we continue to put winning and profits above youth development and celebrate biological early bloomer physical advantages over actual exceptional talent/skills.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how Bethesda MLS Next teams did against Philadelphia Union this past weekend?

Philadelphia Union post their results here: https://www.philadelphiaunion.com/academy/teams

I saw this. They slaughtered bsc and BA

The U14 match was 2-1 through 77 minutes with the Union keeper making two excellent second half saves to keep it from evening up. The Union scored with 2 minutes left to make it 3-1 on a counter after Bethesda pushed to score.

How many 2009 players are on the Bethesda 2010 MLS Next team?

2. Both starters last year. The club is a joke but it’s not the kids or the coaches fault. It’s in the directors to do what they do and they do it wrong.

The fact that they were starters last year is irrelevant as to whether they should bioband at U15 (or perhaps should have biobanded last year). I don't understand your objection.

It's not completely irrelevant in the sense that the purpose of bio-banding is to avoid smaller kids from being squeezed out of the game. If they were able to compete and actually start (and neither are really small - one is actually above average size for 2009), then they are doing others and themselves a disservice by playing an age down. It's gaming the system and not adhering to the purpose of the waiver.

That's not the purpose of bio-banding. It is to encourage gifted players who are slow growers to continue playing creatively and aggressively. It is the same reason why it is sometimes imprudent to play really gifted but smaller players up when younger.

We are saying the same thing. The kids being discussed are not small at all. Yes, the purpose is to allow late growth developers the ability to play at high levels. Unfortunately, coaches are still going to default to size. So unless the kid is one of the bigger ones in the younger age group, they won't benefit much. In this case, they were already decent sized kids in their own age group, which is just a ridiculous abuse of the rule.

We weren't at Bethesda--but my kid had two players on his team playing an age group down with the MLSNext team. I could never understand it because my kid was the same size ---actually skinnier and shorter than those two kids. I think it's a way to ease the demotion from MLSNext team in their age group- by letting them play down.

So they were playing down bc they are not good enough for their on age MLSNext team but too good for their on age second team?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how Bethesda MLS Next teams did against Philadelphia Union this past weekend?

Philadelphia Union post their results here: https://www.philadelphiaunion.com/academy/teams

I saw this. They slaughtered bsc and BA

The U14 match was 2-1 through 77 minutes with the Union keeper making two excellent second half saves to keep it from evening up. The Union scored with 2 minutes left to make it 3-1 on a counter after Bethesda pushed to score.

How many 2009 players are on the Bethesda 2010 MLS Next team?

2. Both starters last year. The club is a joke but it’s not the kids or the coaches fault. It’s in the directors to do what they do and they do it wrong.

The fact that they were starters last year is irrelevant as to whether they should bioband at U15 (or perhaps should have biobanded last year). I don't understand your objection.

It's not completely irrelevant in the sense that the purpose of bio-banding is to avoid smaller kids from being squeezed out of the game. If they were able to compete and actually start (and neither are really small - one is actually above average size for 2009), then they are doing others and themselves a disservice by playing an age down. It's gaming the system and not adhering to the purpose of the waiver.

That's not the purpose of bio-banding. It is to encourage gifted players who are slow growers to continue playing creatively and aggressively. It is the same reason why it is sometimes imprudent to play really gifted but smaller players up when younger.

We are saying the same thing. The kids being discussed are not small at all. Yes, the purpose is to allow late growth developers the ability to play at high levels. Unfortunately, coaches are still going to default to size. So unless the kid is one of the bigger ones in the younger age group, they won't benefit much. In this case, they were already decent sized kids in their own age group, which is just a ridiculous abuse of the rule.

We weren't at Bethesda--but my kid had two players on his team playing an age group down with the MLSNext team. I could never understand it because my kid was the same size ---actually skinnier and shorter than those two kids. I think it's a way to ease the demotion from MLSNext team in their age group- by letting them play down.