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The Missing Ingredient in US Talent Development

Coaching, Problems in Youth Sports, Soccer, Sport, Sports Parenting, Talent DevelopmentBy adminAugust 15, 2014Leave a comment

In 2005, the coaches at one of the top English Premier League Youth Soccer Academies held one of their semiannual meetings to decide upon which players they would keep for the upcoming cycle, and whom they would let go. As they were evaluating their players –many of whom would go on to star not only…

The Surprising Story of Simon Kjaer: Why Talent Selection Does Not Always Work

Coaching, Problems in Youth Sports, Sports ParentingBy adminDecember 24, 2013Leave a comment

In 2004, FC Midtjylland in Denmark set out to establish Scandinavia’s first youth soccer academy. As a new club, it did not have the pick of the litter of Danish soccer talent, which went to bigger, far more established clubs. And as the coaches put together their first team, they were short one player. With…

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