Posts Tagged ‘Youth Development Phase’
The Phase Model: Youth Development Phase – Train to Understand the Game
In the Youth Development Phase (YDP), we see kids who are going through the biggest period of ‘change’ that they will experience. Physical, cognitive, and emotional maturity plays a huge part in terms of soccer development. It’s our role in the YDP to help players navigate this. In a soccer sense, players at U13 move…
Read MoreThe Phase Model: Why It’s the Hotspurs Way
Throughout a majority of soccer clubs, the unspoken balancing act to determine who a coach is for a team is based on how long a coach can keep the parents happy. If the parents are happy, then everything is OK. Right? We don’t believe so. This approach leaves out the most important pieces of the…
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