Brian Smith

Player Development is education. Myrtle Beach Mutiny Coaching staff, and Business Development. USSF B, PFSA Talent ID Level 1, PFSA Op Analysis Level 1

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@TobiasEscher @JvanderB78 That’s right. I corrected the source in a subsequent post.

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@mw_formation Oh now we’re talking. You don’t need too much excel knowledge. What you need is SQL to organize and clean the data, and a way to visualize it (PowerBI, Tableau). Look for the Google Data Analytics course on Coursera.

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@mw_formation If you know how to use formulas I doubt you need to take a course. Be specific about what you want it to do and then look up how to do that. Best way to learn it IMO

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@95hoo @AlexiLalas “Good” and “bad” are subjective. You can find bad soccer at every level. But the object of the game is to WIN. You don’t get points for how pretty it is. Only the final score.

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@95hoo @AlexiLalas Winning and development are not mutually exclusive. Especially in pre-professional age groups like 18-22. Learning to compete to win is vital to development in this phase

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If we can’t have a fall/spring NCAA Soccer schedule can we at least get a standardized high school soccer season?

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@MartinRafelt @JvanderB78 Correction. It was Dieter Hecking when he was at Wolfsburg his first time around

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@MartinRafelt @JvanderB78 However, my point was that sometimes what we describe is patterns that emerge organically depending on what players are involved rather than intentionality.

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@MartinRafelt @JvanderB78 1st of all, really cool that you replied to this. I’ve been reading your stuff since there was only a few articles on the site. I could have the specifics inaccurate, but we’re talking about back when Schmidt was managing Leverkusen. I’m almost positive he mentioned it in Bild

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@samuelap1_ I do too.

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@JacobBrownDOC Oh okay. Sounds like this was directed at a specific situation

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There’s more to youth sports than the pursuit of the “Next Level”. When that becomes the sole focus we can develop an unhealthy relationship with success/failure, and rob ourselves of the present moment. There is no Next Level without the present moment.

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Watching USL or College soccer games on tv is like watching local High School football on tv. Lighting is terrible, not enough camera angles, and commentators sound like game show hosts picking up some extra cash.

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@JacobBrownDOC If you can’t write without Ai you can’t write.

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@PaulSpacey @Neil_Bloch I’m from Philadelphia Pal. I know what it’s like to wait a lifetime for a championship. You’ve suffered with one team, but mine has been diversified across 4. You don’t get to define what support or passion is just because you invented the sport.

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@PaulSpacey @Neil_Bloch Mediocrity is the same boring takes post after post with a narrow view of a solution. It’s countering legitimate responses with insults because you can’t respond intelligently. It’s what happens when you outsource your thinking to an algorithm and hope we don’t notice. We do.

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@StephenChaconas @mw_formation This other group (not sure if I’m allowed to name them) was backed by a $500m fund. I don’t know if the talks continue but I do know that this group is working on other projects at the moment

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@StephenChaconas @mw_formation Correct. These negotiations were happening simultaneously. The NextGen proposal was DOA long before the report came out. The report was just confirmation. The issue was USSF wanted governance and leadership with minimal investment. Only offering $10m over 10 yrs.