Player Development: Team or Individual

Read Brad Partridge's Soccer America Blog on Player Development in our country. Here is an excerpt:

Instead of focusing on the development of individual players, we have focused on team development. We are measuring our success based on team results rather than on individual results. For our youth players the structured game has become the developmental paradigm. Many youth teams, U-14 and under, are playing more than 50 structured games per year while some players play 75 to 100 games.

Read the article here.