Reality is many kids are out of shape because fewer schools actually have PE any longer, or they just do it a few token days a week. Practicing 2-3 days a week for 1.5 hours isn't enough either. In an ideal world kids would do more physical training on their own be we know that won't happen.
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The reality is they should do both, it's the club's responsibility to keep their players in good shape and also learn tactical work and technique drills. I haven't been impressed with any coach I've seen in S. FL and been doing this for 7 yrs with my kids.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe reality is they should do both, it's the club's responsibility to keep their players in good shape and also learn tactical work and technique drills. I haven't been impressed with any coach I've seen in S. FL and been doing this for 7 yrs with my kids.
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When most teams only practice 2-3 days per week at 1.5 hours per session coaches don't have time to do both. So they pick the soccer skills over fitness. That is what they're supposed to be good at theoretically. Anyone can have them run sprints.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postnot every place has a DOC that supervises. sometimes the DOC himself likes physical training.
take for example those beach practices that most coaches love. if u ask me running on the beach or up a bridge should be handled on the players own time, according to a workout schedule that the coach provides to each player. if a player does not follow, it's their loss. taking a group of 15 year olds running on the beach is what you do when you do not have proper practice facility and./or are lazy and do not want to come up with a training plan.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWhen most teams only practice 2-3 days per week at 1.5 hours per session coaches don't have time to do both. So they pick the soccer skills over fitness. That is what they're supposed to be good at theoretically. Anyone can have them run sprints.
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Originally posted by Just a Coach View PostThere are well developed methods to combine fitness training with skill training and learning tactics.
And in the absence of these skills, they default to big strong and fast....that's US soccer in a nutshell. Sorry for the reality check...
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThat is correct. The coaches I've seen either are too lazy or don't have enough knowledge as to how to combine intensity with tactical training that works both fitness, skills and tactics. This is why there are only a handful of decent teams in FL and even then there are no truly skillful mids or forwards.
And in the absence of these skills, they default to big strong and fast....that's US soccer in a nutshell. Sorry for the reality check...
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postu.s. soccer ... MLS has taken major strides, but still ... the skill and play in Real Sociedad v. Alaves greatly exceeds anything you see in the MLS. do we play a different style of soccer? why is our style so sloppy at the highest level - MLS - and so different from what you see internationally?
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostBecause of pay-to-play youth soccer model and associated perverse incentives...
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI don't buy it. MLS has nothing to do with our youth soccer model. I think they are told by the MLS powers that be to play a very attack oriented, physical style of play b/c the powers that be at MLS think that is what americans want.
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