A soccer coach explains what scouts actually look for in youth players: how you perform in real 11-v-11 matches, not sprint times or drills. He breaks down what center backs and fullbacks need to do, walks through a striker's missed chance, and invites you to comment "quiz" for a personalized camp recommendation.
This is what the coaches care about the most. Not the 11s, or rather not the running sprints, not the possession. This is what they care about the most. Now, the possessions is a good one just because you get a lot of reps in and it's smaller, but if you do well in the 11s, that's how you get recruited. And just let's, let's watch the center back for a minute. For those of you center backs, that was all good. Left foot, goalkeeper shifted, but you'll just recognize the striker who we spoke to earlier today Still doesn't have the ball. Still doesn't have the ball. It will never get the ball in this game, unfortunately, very much. There's not a lot you can do about that. The center backs and the right backs and left backs, and maybe here's a center mid, may get the ball a little bit more. Oh, there's your chance as a striker. Good goal. I missed it. Did you get it? Yep. Um, is the point to say is it's hard to play out of the back as you would normally because you're random with all these kids here. So So center back-wise, I hope they come back to us and we'll, we'll review them because it's the best thing I could teach you honestly is as a center back. I'll show you a couple things, but the main thing I just want to say is don't get frustrated. If you Comment the word quiz so we can ask you a series of questions to find a little bit more about your situation to see which camp you should be going to. That camp you just saw is one of the best ones there is. They're gonna have it again in April, and you should go.
