Is your club a serious soccer club? In our state, most competitive soccer clubs train two or, sometimes, three times per week. This is clearly not enough time to develop top level soccer players. Perhaps this works to develop players for American Colleges and the MLS but not for the highest level.  In 2005 we visited two clubs who have combined their youth programs in order to develop their best players. 

Hey Youth Club Coaches, Coaching Directors, Parents and Boards........What do you think is the most important thing for a professional club in Holland? 

Not Uniforms, not sweats suits, not team flags, not pins, not Surf Cup caps, not back packs, not rankings, not attending Surf Cup, not winning state cups, not winning a       " national championship", not being named "elite" nor wearing Nike, Puma or Adidas. The most important concept at every club we have visited in Holland (and Belgium, England, Germany, Spain, and Mexico), over the past 15 years, is educating the players about soccer ........and developing them. 

Imagine if your club's success was measured by the number of players you placed in college, the MLS, or the National teams rather than the number of tournaments or state cups won.....?

A description of the United States Soccer Scene.........?

"This, the player who now holds a coaching diploma says, points to the local football officials’ inability to evolve structures both at club and federation level to tap budding talent." Read more.....

"I watch a lot of football and sometimes I see games on TV and I think `I could never play in that team"

Hear, Hear!  Read more