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Archives for July 2013

Why “Developing All Players to Their Potential” is a Lie

By Gary Kleiban 105 Comments

You can not be all things to all people. You have to pick. Let’s consider you have a single roster that you get to work with for a certain number of hours per week. I think we can all agree this roster is comprised of players with unique qualities and varying levels of talent (or […]

Filed Under: Philosophy, Practical, Soccer Education, Solutions Tagged With: Development, Education, Philosophy, Problems, Solutions

You Can’t Copy a Style of Play and What Mr. Sigi Schmid Said.

By Gary Kleiban 95 Comments

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There are many fundamental issues with talk of ‘style of play’. I’ll state two (which are intimately linked): 1) You can’t ‘copy’ a style of play. (on the coaching front) A ‘style of play’ is a specialty – like neurosurgery or cardiovascular surgery. Yes, it’s all medicine, and yes there are overlapping competencies, but one […]

Filed Under: Philosophy, Practical, Problems, Soccer Education

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