Quote: High School teams practice 5-6 days a week. Clubs practice 2 maybe 3 times a week. How can more touches on the ball impede someones development??
I have had this discussion a lot lately with club coaches discouraging kids from playing middle school ball. They say that the kids that leave our practices and arrive at theirs dont have the intensity that is needed. I agree that more touches is better for the kid.
The other arguement is that club kids play 37 games plus the 2 practices a week is too much for the kids on top of the school commitment. I was told that there are studies showing how physically it is bad for them.
I wonder how the Blythewood Middle girls did last year with club since that is what most of them were. Were there any extra injuries or fatigue due to them playing school and club.
im not sure about girls, they are physically different.
but i remember when i was in like 5th grade back in the homeland.
we had 4 practices a week with the academy. games on sundays.
4 breaks of 15 minutes at school, all of them were used to play futbol at the bk court with a plastic ball.
not to mention we came back from practice at 6 pm, eat, do homework then go out to the street with the boys to play some more til like 9pm, but again that is latin america, a different culture ; )
by the end of the night watching la liga and seria a goals next to grandpa, waiting for the next day to arrive so more futbol could be played hahaha
