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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 1806968, member: 153"]
I find all the different approaches clash.

We had a coach that was teaching team strategy early on, possession, he broke down every stage of the game and spent a good month on each teaching it to 10-11 year olds, then linking the phases. And it worked. Our games were ugly at first because teaching possession when skill levels aren't up to snuff leads to a lot of turnovers. His pet peeve was when away games were scheduled on oversized fields (which opened space and encouraged through balls and "bad habits.")

Well, you had several parents with soccer knowledge that were critical of the fact that so much time was spent learning the team game to the detriment of getting touches on the ball, of players making risky individual moves, and these parents even cited the German system which emphasizes practice and keeping a ball at your feet at all times. The parents took their kids to academies.

The Italian team emphasis works well when your kids schedule high level games. Around here though, in the spring season, the academies only play 8 games the entire season, and they have 3 practices a week.
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