Interesting article on Youth Development in Japan

I received this article from a lacrosse coach who talks a lot about developing individual skill and the importance of skill...the team win/loss record can wait till your older.

Being in an environment and having a coach that allows mistakes and creativity while you are young is important to developing the best individual player. Promoting fun is key to keeping players in the sport. These are great concepts. I am not great at posting links, so you may have to copy this into your browser.


http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2013/02/tom_byer_the_man_who_made_japanese_soccer_a_player_on_the_world_football.2.html

it's the coerver method. We have it hear but it's not widely used. Japan is better at taking a system and pushing it out nation wide. Here we are better at protecting our own little kingdoms and the focus really is money not development. We are polluted by pointy ball and it colors how we look at soccer development and clouded by "expert" coaches who in reality know very little.