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Nov 2022
15m 20s

Are You A Special Player?

The Soccer Specialist
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From participation trophies to 'everyone makes the team' trends where a club creates as many teams in an age group as it can based on the number of players at tryouts, it seems all you players are special.  Is this true? And does that mentality really serve players best and help your development?  Let's examine who isn't special, who is, and how it can be you!

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